Poetry · Palestine

Red Tuesday

الثلاثاء الحمراء

Ibrahim Tuqan1930Grief

Ibrahim Tuqan's elegy for Fuad Hijazi, Muhammad Jamjoum and Atta al-Zir, hanged at Acre prison on 17 June 1930. It gave the day the name Palestinians have used ever since, and it is built as three hours — one for each man.