Tuesday, November 03, 2009

Poetic Obituaries: [Sakher Habash] also cultivated

other interests, was a prolific writer of both poetry and history, writing among other things a history of the Fatah movement, and became known as one of the party's intellectuals.

"He was a multifaceted man," said Hanan Ashrawi, a member of the executive committee of the Palestinian Liberation Organisation. "He was an avid reader and writer. Every meeting we had, he would sit down and write a poem and send it to me afterwards."

from The National: Palestinian revolutionary dies

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