Here we bring to mind the real nationalities of: Mahmoud Darwish, Mohamed Mehdi El Gawahry, Abdel Wahab El Bayati, Mohamed Ben Fetais El Marri, Birm El Tunisi and Fouad Haddad.
Mahmoud Darwish
His Palestinian nationality was the fuel of his ever-poignant poetic experience. His family had been displaced to Lebanon in 1948, like many Palestinian families at the time. He was 7 years old, but he remained in Lebanon for only one year.
He returned to Palestine in disguise and settled in a village Deir al-Assad for a short period, and then settled in the village of Jadida, and was afraid to be discovered by the occupying authorities are deported again, and lived without nationality. After graduating from high school, he joined the Communist Party of Israel.
He worked in the party's press. His work was political poetry and writings, leading to his arrest more than once from 1961 to 1972.
He moved to the Soviet Union to finish his education, He joined the Palestine Liberation Organization, then moved to Lebanon, where he worked in the publishing and study institutions that the organization oversees.
Although Mahmoud Darwish lived for a period of his youth without formal nationality, he was a dual citizen for two years.
King Abdullah II granted him Jordanian nationality when he was based in Amman, and Darwish was happy to have both Jordanian and Palestinian nationality , And that he considers the Palestinian and Jordanian peoples twins.
El Gawahry and Al Bayati
Muhammad Mahdi al-Jawahiri and Abdulwahab al-Bayati, the great poets of Iraq, lost their Iraqi citizenship for the same reason.
They participated in a cultural festival held by Saudi Arabia. The relations between Iraq and Saudi Arabia were not good because of Saudi Arabia's position on the Gulf War.
Al-Jawahiri lived as a refugee in Egypt in the early fifties, then moved to Syria, and from there to Iraq, where the return of the heroes returned, and it was only a few years before the regime changed and civil war broke out.
Al-Bayati, who has been traveling since the mid-1950s between Damascus and Cairo, Moscow, Beirut, and Amman, even Madrid, where he spent several years in the Iraqi cultural center, was also an optional exile.
Mohammed bin Fattis Al Marri
The former Qatari poet Mohammed bin Fattis al-Marri, whose name has emerged in the recent political crisis between the four countries and Qatar, recorded a position that pushed the Doha authorities to withdraw his nationality, accusing him of supporting Saudi Arabia after he said in a video: "If the assaults on the homelands are a red line The encroachment on the sanctities and the Custodian of the Two Holy Mosques and the scholars is a line of fire, we do not allow it to be overtaken or violated.
Birm El Tunisi and Fuad Haddad
He was exiled more than once during the reign of King Fouad. On one occasion, he was exiled to Tunisia, but he could not stay there, even though he had his origins there.
He left for France and then entered Egypt. In 1952, he was awarded the Egyptian nationality, then worked for Al-Ahram, and President Gamal Abdel Nasser awarded him the 1960 State Prize.
Fouad Haddad is a Lebanese Protestant father and a Syrian Catholic mother. His father graduated from the American University specializing in financial mathematics.
He came to Cairo and worked as a teacher at Fouad I University (Cairo University).
His mother was born in Cairo to parents from Aleppo, Syria, and Fuad Haddad learned at Al-Fareer School and then the French Lycée School.
The arrest of Fouad Haddad in 1953 for political reasons, and in prison converted to Islam, and went out to turn into the vernacular poetry.
