Aboul-Qacem Echebbi

Aboul-Qacem Echebbi (Arabic: أبو القاسم الشابي, ALA-LC: Abū al-Qāsim al-Shābbī; (24 February 1909 – 9 October 1934) was a Tunisian poet.

He is probably best known for writing the final two verses of the current National Anthem of Tunisia, Humat al-Hima (Defenders of the Homeland), which was originally written by the Egyptian poet Mustafa Sadik el-Rafii.

[2][1][3] In the early 1930s, Echebbi was part of a group of artists and intellectuals whose work was deeply inflected with nationalist politics coming to the fore at the time.

They "wanted to create a literary cultural milieu that built national character, denounced colonialism, and promoted social and economic justice.

Echebbi was considered by later Egyptian literary critic Shawqi Daif to be among the very finest Arabic poets of the modern era.

Aboul-Qacem Echebbi
Mausoleum of Abou El Kacem Chebbi
The obverse of the Tunisian 30 dinar the image of Aboul-Qacem Echebbi since 1997 .
Sculpture of Aboul-Qacem Echebbi in a public park in his hometown in Tozeur
This a verse from the poem (ārādahu alḥayyāhu) was written by the Tunisian poet Aboul-Qacem Echebbi in 16 September 1933 , and is considered one of the most famous poems in modern Arabic poetry .