From her book: "The Yelling of Pride"
By: Nuha Zurub Kawar
By: Nuha Zurub Kawar
Translated by: Adib S. Kawar
I am the daughter of the Galilee…
The daughter of Christ’s Nazareth…
The daughter of the towering Galilee over the high hills…
In my ribs…
The eastern stars meeting grandfathers’ dreams…
From here I kiss them all…
To make the impossible, they rose…
The land they ruled and the sea they waded…
Then like eagles they died…
I am the daughter of the Galilee…
Different from all the world’s women I look…
From childhood… I feel I am…
The pride… glory… and grandeur…
Do you love??? I was asked…
I replied…
How men without a homeland would women they love???
I am a woman that myself I don’t fault..
And if once the heart betrays me…
I fight…!
Peace on you… I say…
Peace to the towering hills…
Peace for the homeland’s mothers…
and for the youngsters before dawn…
*** * ***
An Arab I am…
Pure is my blood… proud is my soul…
From the high mountains, the woman I am…
A fountain at the mountain’s foot I am…
A Nazarene I am..
My mother… my sister..
My daughter… and my son too…
My blood’s path is frankincense… echo…
Trills and shrills I am…
A people’s song…
Howling in a racist grip…
******
An Arab I am…
It hurts me…
To vagabond my people…
Killing my eagles…
Demolishing my bridges…
by dumb hands…
*** * ***
An Arab I am…
A Nazarene I am…
A descendent of a proud and disdainful people…
Aping the sky…
With a clear clean face…
My people’s history…
a record of pride it is…
my land my home…
my people’s stumps…
like a beacon…
shall always remain…
*** * ***
An Arab I am…
And admonition I have…
O mother I learned…
The love of my land’s soil…
Arabs I admonished…
Admonition passes
The killing of the young…
The war prisoner’s fetters…
With admonition I am bore…
*** * ***
An Arab I am…
Pure are my roots… proud are my branches…
My head I shall rise… up to the sky…
My bier I shall make… of pride’s roses…
My fragrance I shall spray… all around…
Everywhere to… is dear…
So as my scent… near me it remains…
To my people it reminds… that pride I am…
And my roots… the sky they reach…
That here I am… the plants… glory… and loftiness…
I live… I die… and light remains…
Nuha Zurub Kawar, was born in Nazareth, Palestine, her father, Munib Amin Zurub, was of Lebanese origin, he completed his secondary school in Sahyoun school in Jerusalem, and higher education in the American University of Beirut, which was called at the time "The Syrian Protestant College".
Her mother is Izat Salim Kawar, a Palestinian from Nazareth, who is the granddaughter of Tannous Kawar, (The great grandfather of Adib Kawar) the founder and first president of the municipality of Nazareth.
Nuha is the wife of Bahjat Iskandar Kawar, who is a graduate of Haifa University, where he specialized in the Arabic language, and they have four children, Sahar, Dr. Iskandar, Marwah and Sany who are all university graduates.
She wrote for several newspapers, magazines and broadcasting stations early in her life under the name of “The daughter of Nazareth”. She gave many lectures in the country and abroad. She worked for many international voluntary organizations. Her name was registered in the international record, and “The American Organization for Biographies” from which she got a certificate of “Outstanding International Leaders”, she also got in 2002 from International Biographical Center" the certificate of “The Golden Record for Achievements", as well as a certificate of esteem from Cambridge University, and a certificate of excellence from the minister of Sciences, culture and sports. Dutch Television shot a film about her life and achievements. She also participated in a documentary film that was shown in the local museum and around the world.
She wrote many poems in Hebrew, and many of her poems were translated into English.
Composer Ishaq Abu Al-Izz composed the music for some of her poems which were sang on the largest theaters of the country.
Posts of the writer:
· Chair of Women’s Organization in Nazareth N.W.O.
· Chair of the Women’s Foundation for World Peace W.F.W.P.
· Member of the International Voluntary work in Switzerland
· Member of the international executive committee for religious brotherhood
· Member of the executive committee for Palestinian Writers
· Member of the International Society of Partisans of Literature
Works of the writer:
· “Hitaf Al-Kubria” “Cheers of Pride” a poetry collection
· “Wahj Al-Yara3” “The Glow of the Pen” a poetry collection
· “Shajarat Al-Majd” “The Tree of Glory”: a poetic play
· “Al-Shari3 Al-Ghadib” “The Angry Street” A book for children
· “Tarikh Annasirah” “History of Nazareth”, which is one of the most important books that was published about this period as critics wrote, which is an encyclopedia that talks about the history that little was written about, it also talks about the occupation of the city of Nazareth and its sufferings during the occupation and the dark periods and ages that it passed through.
She also wrote many books for children, poems, memories about the war on Iraq, and a ribbon of memories and the tales of the Sibat (A sibat is an arched alley, one of he most famous sibats in Nazareth is the Kawar family sibat) all these are ready for publication
Nuha Zurub Kawar, was born in Nazareth, Palestine, her father, Munib Amin Zurub, was of Lebanese origin, he completed his secondary school in Sahyoun school in Jerusalem, and higher education in the American University of Beirut, which was called at the time "The Syrian Protestant College".
Her mother is Izat Salim Kawar, a Palestinian from Nazareth, who is the granddaughter of Tannous Kawar, (The great grandfather of Adib Kawar) the founder and first president of the municipality of Nazareth.
Nuha is the wife of Bahjat Iskandar Kawar, who is a graduate of Haifa University, where he specialized in the Arabic language, and they have four children, Sahar, Dr. Iskandar, Marwah and Sany who are all university graduates.
She wrote for several newspapers, magazines and broadcasting stations early in her life under the name of “The daughter of Nazareth”. She gave many lectures in the country and abroad. She worked for many international voluntary organizations. Her name was registered in the international record, and “The American Organization for Biographies” from which she got a certificate of “Outstanding International Leaders”, she also got in 2002 from International Biographical Center" the certificate of “The Golden Record for Achievements", as well as a certificate of esteem from Cambridge University, and a certificate of excellence from the minister of Sciences, culture and sports. Dutch Television shot a film about her life and achievements. She also participated in a documentary film that was shown in the local museum and around the world.
She wrote many poems in Hebrew, and many of her poems were translated into English.
Composer Ishaq Abu Al-Izz composed the music for some of her poems which were sang on the largest theaters of the country.
Posts of the writer:
· Chair of Women’s Organization in Nazareth N.W.O.
· Chair of the Women’s Foundation for World Peace W.F.W.P.
· Member of the International Voluntary work in Switzerland
· Member of the international executive committee for religious brotherhood
· Member of the executive committee for Palestinian Writers
· Member of the International Society of Partisans of Literature
Works of the writer:
· “Hitaf Al-Kubria” “Cheers of Pride” a poetry collection
· “Wahj Al-Yara3” “The Glow of the Pen” a poetry collection
· “Shajarat Al-Majd” “The Tree of Glory”: a poetic play
· “Al-Shari3 Al-Ghadib” “The Angry Street” A book for children
· “Tarikh Annasirah” “History of Nazareth”, which is one of the most important books that was published about this period as critics wrote, which is an encyclopedia that talks about the history that little was written about, it also talks about the occupation of the city of Nazareth and its sufferings during the occupation and the dark periods and ages that it passed through.
She also wrote many books for children, poems, memories about the war on Iraq, and a ribbon of memories and the tales of the Sibat (A sibat is an arched alley, one of he most famous sibats in Nazareth is the Kawar family sibat) all these are ready for publication
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