Poetry · Palestine

From Acre Prison

من سجن عكا

Traditional — sung by Firqat al-ʿAshiqin1930Grief

The funeral song for Fuad Hijazi, Muhammad Jamjoum and Atta al-Zir, hanged by the British at Acre prison on 17 June 1930. It went out with their funerals and never stopped being sung — in the camps, at commemorations, and inside the prisons.

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