Sakher Habash
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Sakher Habash ( صخر حبش born November 10, 1939) is a Palestinian leader of the Fatah movement. Habash was born in Beit Dajan, near Jaffa, in 1939. He became a refugee in the 1948 Arab-Israeli War, ending up first in Ramallah, then in Balata Refugee Camp near Nablus. He studied Geology and Water Resources at Cairo’s Ein Shams University from 1958. He turned to Palestinian national movement in the early 1960s and joined Fatah in 1962, when he became responsible for recruitment. He was appointed Fatah regional command in Lebanon in Oct. 1972. He is a member of the Fatah Central Committee since Aug. 1989, where he served as Fatah's general deputy of intellectual affairs. He is a prolific writer and poet. He now resides in Ramallah.
[edit] Ode to Palestine
Without you my darling
What does life mean to me?
Nothing my darling
Because you are the thing I am living for.
With out you what hopes might shine in my eyes
But to see you.
Without you nothing around that I can see
But you.
Oh, I will be back to you.
The force that took me away from you
Will never survive.
They thought that I might forget you with time.
They don't know what you are to me
And what I am to you.
Without you I am a leaf
And Autumn's gate is open to embrace me.
No. I won't fall down.
But in your arms
My best paradise.
Without you I find myself with nothing
But memories of you.
You are the only thing
On the temple of whom my life would be sacrificed.
When they asked
Who is that you are talking about?
Your name in my heart
On my tongue
Mixed with my soul
Sacred and divine
Palestine, Palestine, Palestine
