Lutfi Zaghloul
Lutfi Zaghloul is a Palestinian poet. He was born in Nablus, the eldest son of the late Palestinian poet Abdul Latif Zaghloul. Zaghloul's poetic talent began in Al-Hayat School, where he wrote his first poem about Palestine, and during which he acquired the title "Emerging Poet" by a teacher of Arabic at his school. He is also one of the first poets to have a website that contains the majority of his works.
Early life
Zaghloul studied political history at the Damascus University, then returned to Nablus, where he taught in government schools during Jordanian rule and was dismissed by decision of the Israeli military governor in 1990 after the release of his first poetry book, From You... To You. He participated in many political, educational and historical seminars in his country.In 1995, he started writing a weekly column titled Whisper for Al-Quds newspaper where he discusses political, cultural, literary and educational issues. He is also extensively involved in local and Arab radio and television networks.
Awards
His song "Palestine Singers" ranked number one in the Arab world at Dubai National Arabic Song Festival. He was awarded by Operation Smile Palestine in recognition of his efforts in writing the Universal Beautiful Smile song, which was translated into English. He wrote many national, educational and children's songs.He received many Palestinian, Arab and foreign plaques, certificates and medals. He was awarded a range of certificates of merit and plaques by official and civil national institutions, a medal of appreciation for his publications in the field of literature, the Palestinian Ministry of Education plaque in recognition of his literary and poetic efforts, and two certificates of merit by Operation Smile.
The Ministry of Higher Education selected his poem "Song of Youth" as an anthem for Palestine Technical Colleges in. It had selected the poem "Home of the Free" in 2001 and later the poems "My Library", "My Book", "Water" and "Freedom". In addition, The Ministry of Youth and Sport adopted the poem "Palestinian Youth Organization" . He also translated many of his poems into English and French.
Three university studies examined his poetry collections:
- A study of Latifi Zaghloul's poetry, under the supervision of Dr. Muhammad Jawad Al-Nuri.
- A study on his collection of poetry No Love... Except For You, under the supervision of Dr. Walid Jarrar.
- A study of women in Lutfi Zaghloul's poetry, under the supervision of Dr. Zahir Ibrahim Al-Saif.
Two analytical readings by Dr. Abdul Rahman Abbad covered two of his poetry collections:
- I Read in Your Eyes: Poetry ''
- Let Us Go Home
- An analytical reading of Sufi poetry in Lutfi Zaghloul's poetry collection Whisper of the Soul was conducted by Dr. Abdel Monem Khorshid of the Sorbonne-Paris.
- An analytical reading of his poetry collection, Here We Are... Here We Will Be by Dr. Abdullah Maymon – Casablanca, Morocco.
- Two analytical readings of his poetry collections Poems in the Color of Love and A Folk Song in the Arabian Night by Prof. Suleiman Fiume.
Works
- Poetry book, From You... To You, :
- Days... Not Haunted by Days
- On... The Walls of The Moon
- Poetry book, For Your Eyes... I Write Poetry, :
- Because... You're You
- You... Come First
- A Soliloquy : spiritual poem.
- Whisper of the Soul: Poetry
- The Orbit of Fire and Light : a national and political poem