CAIRO (Ahlul Bayt News Agency) - Palestinian poet Salah al-Din al-Husaini (Abu Al-Sadeq) died in a Cairo hospital, aged 76 years, after suffering from acute pneumonitis.
He lived in Cairo since he left Lebanon in 1982 with the PLO after the Israeli invasion.
Born in 1935, he joined the Palestine Liberation Movement, Fatah, in 1967 and became famous for the first revolutionary song for Fateh which became known as the Asefa song (the storm).
He became the military spokesman for all Palestinian factions in 1971 and in 1975 he established the Institute Palestinian folklore and Theatre where he also formed a band of artists composed of sons of martyrs.
He established the first Palestinian children’s theatre in Cairo and produced many plays, the most famous of which are Hares al-Nabe’ and Taq-Taq-Taqeyye.
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