Chawki Bazih

Chawki Bazih (Arabic:شوقي بزيغ) is a Lebanese contemporary poet born in southern Lebanon in 1951.

[citation needed] He has dozens of books in poetry and prose, as well as critical, literary, cultural and intellectual articles.

In early 1968, he taught two months at the Alma al-Sha'b Frontier School, then went to the Faculty of Education of the Lebanese University, and obtained a certificate of proficiency in Arabic language and literature in 1973, for a critical study entitled: The Palestinian resistance felt in contemporary Arab criticism, and received the rank of First Honor.

We were looking for an alternative homeland, and we didn't know going out to the protests in the hundreds of thousands that we were establishing the civil war that was coming.

I was influenced by the poets of hadith Badonis, Badr Shakir al – Siab, Khalil Hawi, and Nazar Qabani... And they were shaking at what I was writing, and they just wanted slogans from me.

He recently announced his position in favour of the 17 December revolution in Lebanon:[9]"In the Square of Martyrs/where the Lebanese rise to their dignity and, after 19 years of liberation of the land, fight their harshest and most important battle to free man from humiliation and want, to break the unjust circle of the united system of malaise and to write for themselves the most beautiful poem that the poets have been unable to write.

Some of his other collections have also formed basic stops in his poetry, such as: Yusuf Shirts[15] and Mirab Al Muthani.

including, most recently, the late Palestinian Poet Mahmoud Darwish Foundation's "Special Honor Award," and in detail.

In turn, he commented on his Facebook account on the award: "The Mahmoud Darwish Prize for Culture and Creativity (Special Rank of Honour) is the most prestigious necklace in which Palestine has decorated my chest, burdened with poison loads and torments.

"[25] The critic Zahida Darwish Jabbour wrote in the first volume of Chawki Bazih poetic work:"If we wanted to describe chawki Bazih creative experience in one word, we wouldn't find it better than the river, it's ever-regenerating and its water is one that doesn't change.