Depicting the Jewish Occupiers in the Poetry of Mahmoud Darwish, the Poet of the Palestinian Resistance, and Its Role in the Islamic Awakening

Mohammadzadeh Soltanahmadi, Ali; Eslamy, Mohammadreza

Depicting the Jewish Occupiers in the Poetry of Mahmoud Darwish, the Poet of the Palestinian Resistance, and Its Role in the Islamic Awakening

Document Type : Original Article

Authors

ali mohammadzadeh soltanahmadi ¹

mohammadreza eslamy ²

¹ PhD student in Arabic Language and Literature, Department of Arabic, Faculty of Literature and Humanities, Shahid Madani University of Azerbaijan, Tabriz, Iran

² Faculty member and assistant professor, Department of Arabic, Faculty of Literature and Humanities, Shahid Madani University of Azerbaijan - Tabriz - Iran

Abstract

The year 1948 was the year of the establishment of the usurping and fake Israeli regime, and the generation ofpoets who later wrote poems about the Palestinian issue should be called the generation of "defeat, sadness, and broken-hearted."With the growth of the sense of Arab ethnicity in the region, the victory of the revolutionsof the nations of the world, and the Islamic awakening in it under the shadow of armed resistance, a generation came to the scene of struggle and thought, in whose perspective everything was different from the previous generation. Mahmoud Darwish (1941-2008) is the poet of this generation, who not only fought against the Zionist Jewswith his practical actions and poetry.The present study attempts to explain and depict the image of the Jewish occupiers in Mahmoud Darwish's poetry in an analytical-descriptive manner and its impactonthe mind and understanding of the audience in the Islamic awakening and resistance. (Method) The overall results of this study indicate that in his poetry, especially in his political poems, Darwish uses heritage, symbols, codes, and myths more than he does in depicting the true face of the Jewish occupiers, their beliefs, goals, and role in erasing Islamic and Arab identity and strengthening the spirit of racism based on deviant beliefs and distorted myths of the Jews, and considers his poetry as a tool for challenging and fighting against the occupying enemy (Findings)

Keywords

Resistance literature

Islamic awakening

Jewish image

Palestine

Mahmoud Darwish

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