Themes of Resistance in Harun Hashem Rasheed's Poetry

Palestinian resistance literature grew in the cultural ground of Palestine’s revolt against Israeli cruelty. This branch of literature was formed based on the struggle against, and portrayal of tyrants in order to defend Palestinian identity against aliens. The present descriptive-analytical study aims to illustrate themes of resistance in a collection of poems called “Qazeh fi Khat-e Naar” (“Gaza in the Line of Fire”) by Harun Hashem Rasheed, the Palestinian poet, who is one of the pioneers and developers of the poetry of resistance in Arabic literature and the Islamic world. He has witnessed Palestine’s invasion and chaotic conditions of neighborhood countries, and he long been awaiting peoples’ revolutionary movement. Harun Hashem Rasheed reacts to his country`s oppression and cries out for freedom from these conditions; he believes in struggle and trust in Allah as the only ways to this goal and rejects any kind of agreement. With the most beautiful and the most creative, yet the most tragic words, he draws all nations’ attention to Palestinian orphans.
Oppression of Palestinian children‚ God's divine intervention‚ endurance of the difficulties, remembering Arabic glorious history, Zionism’s lack of identity, and opposing colonialism are the most outstanding themes in Rasheed’s poetry.