A Date with a Literary Scholar -Refaat Alareer-

     
               2 hour with Mr.Refaat was really excitement moment. A lot of  thing we learnt about Palestine, Gaza and the West bank where it has overtaken by the regime which is Israel. Not only that but we also  learnt about the prose that actually one of the starting point they started to used prose stated their right that they deserve to defend themselves.
        The innocent people were killed, the children lost their parent and don't have a placed to stay. This kind of humanity was a reality and there so many people suffered because the war. When its comes to this situation, the Palestine take an action to write something on behalf of Palestinian.


               Mr. Refaat has introduced a few poets that writing during the war. There two languages that the poets use at the time which is Arabic and English. The list:

      Famous Palestinian poets writing in Arabic

1.    Mahmoud Darwish
2.  Tamim Bargouti

    Famous Palestinian poets writing in English                      

1.   Rafeef Ziadah ( We teach Life,Sir)
2. Susan Abulhawa ( Wala!)
3. Remikanazi

 Style of poem before war

• writing more about life, matter and its depend on the situation at that time

              Mr.Refaat also wrote a poem. I really admired his work because the poem was so beautiful and really touch my heart. Here the list of the poem that his wrote: 

•   If I Must Die
• Over the wall
• And we live On..
• I am you

All of you can visit this to read this poems:

 http://thisisgaza.wordpress.com/

Then, Mr.Refaat also mention about writing poetry which is:

How it all started?(poetry)

• Read a lot of good and high quality poetry
• believe that you can write good stuff
• have the will to do so
• imitate
• be yourself
• write down all the thing that you read to get an ideas.
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          Within this class, I got so much things that I wouldn't know before.. Thanks to Mr.Refaat for sharing your knowledge and experiences. And I will always remember his word which is " being a writer is being able to be anybody else"

Thats all.