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Hasan Sa'id Karmi
Hasan Sa'id Karmi ( ar, حسن سعيد الكرمي; 1905 – May 5, 2007) was a Palestinian linguist and broadcaster for the BBC Arabic Service. Biography Hasan Karmi was born in Tulkarm (then in the Ottoman Empire). The son of a sharia court judge, Sheikh Sa'id al-Karmi, and the brother of the Arab poet Abd al-Karim al-Karmi. Hasan Karmi studied in a local Qur'anic school in Tulkarm and later attended English College in Jerusalem. He joined the British mandate government's education department and won two scholarships, in 1939 and 1945, to study at the Institute of Education in London. Practical life Karmi and his family were forced to flee in the 1948 Nakba. They eventually settled in the neighbourhood of Golders Green, in London, United Kingdom. Karmi joined the BBC Arabic Service and worked as a broadcaster for nearly 40 years. He was the creator, writer, and presenter of a weekly literary program called ''Qawlun ala Qawl'' (Saying on a Saying) devoted to Arabic poetry ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Tulkarm
Tulkarm, Tulkarem or Tull Keram ( ar, طولكرم, ''Ṭūlkarm'') is a Palestinian city in the West Bank, located in the Tulkarm Governorate of the State of Palestine. The Israeli city of Netanya is to the west, and the Palestinian cities of Nablus and Jenin to the east. According to the Palestinian Central Bureau of Statistics, in 2007 Tulkarm had a population of 51,300 while its adjacent refugee camp had a population of 10,641. Tulkarm is under the administration of the Palestinian Authority (as part of Area A). Etymology The Canaanite name, which survived through to Roman times, was ''Birat Sorqua'' ('well of the chosen vine'),Farid Al-Salim, ''Palestine and the Decline of the Ottoman Empire: Modernization and the Path to Palestinian Statehood,'' Bloomsbury Publishing, 2015 p.39 The Arabic name translates as "mountain of vines" and may be derived from the Aramaic name ''Tur Karma'' ("vineyard hill") which was used for Tulkarm by the Crusaders and by the mediaeval S ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
