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Khalil Hawi

Khalil Hawi ( Arabic : خليل حاوي; Transliterated Khalīl Ḥāwī; 1919–1982) was a Lebanese poet and writer who was one of Lebanon's most prominent poets in the 20th century. [ 1 ] ...

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Khalil Hawi (Arabic: خليل حاوي; Transliterated Khalīl Ḥāwī; 1919–1982) was a Lebanese poet and writer who was one of Lebanon's most prominent poets in the 20th century.[1] In 1982, during the 1982 Lebanon War, that occurred in the midst of the Lebanese Civil War, Hawi committed suicide by a self-inflicted gunshot wound from a rifle in his apartment in Beirut, driven by his profound despondency over his country's inability and failure to defend itself from the onslaught of the Israeli invasion, when the latter invaded Lebanon on 6 June 1982.

He also vehemently resented the silence and inaction of other Arab countries' governments about the 1982 Israeli invasion of Lebanon, which contributed to his suicide as well.[2][3]

Throughout his career and lifetime, he wrote five anthologies of poetry and regularly contributed to literary magazines such as Majallat Shiʿr ("Poetry Magazine").[3]

List of works

Khalil Hawi wrote five anthologies of poetry.

  • River of Ash (1957)
  • Flute and Wind (1961)
  • Threshing Floor's of Hunger (1965)
  • Wounded Thunder (1979)
  • From Hell's Comedy (1979)

Further reading

  • Fouad Ajami, "The Dream Palace of the Arabs"

The second chapter, pages 26–110 are devoted to Hawi. There are further references on pages 314–316

References

  1. ↑Ajami, Fouad (2009-09-23). The Dream Palace of the Arabs: A Generation's Odyssey. Knopf Doubleday Publishing Group. ISBN 978-0-307-48403-1.
  2. ↑Kennedy, Hugh (2013-10-03). Warfare and Poetry in the Middle East. Bloomsbury Publishing. ISBN 978-0-85772-294-2.
  3. 12Beard, Michael (May 1984). "Khalil Hawi, Kahlil Gibran: His Background, Character and Works, American University of Beirut, Publications of the Faculty of Arts and Sciences, No. 41 (London: Third World Centre for Research and Publishing, Ltd., 1982) rpt. Beirut, 1972. Pp. 311". International Journal of Middle East Studies. 16 (2): 283–284. doi:10.1017/S0020743800028051. ISSN 1471-6380.