Rihab Kanaan, a Palestinian poetess was born in Beirut 1959. The
Intifadah and the Zionist occupation brutal manner to curbing it
were the theme of her poems.
She was called after the old Arab poetess Al-Khansaa who had
spent her life lamenting her brother who had been killed .
During the massacre at the Lebanon Palestinian refugee camps of
Sabra and Shatila in 1982, Rihab lost 54 of her family members
and relatives. It happened that Rihab's baby daughter. Maimanah,
escaped the massacre, and was raised up by her neighbors.
Maimanah grew up in a Palestinian refugee camp. Poetess Rihab
didn't know that Maimanah was one of the few survivors of the
massacre, also no body knew that the mother survived too. Rihab
moved to Tunis and got married there where she lived for 15
years, as the Lebanese authorities did allow her to visit
Lebanon.
With the start of the second Intifadah Rabab (Al-Khansaa)
started to show up on the Palestinian T.V. station to recite her
patriotic poems, and it happened that one of her Sabra and
Shatila neighbors saw her reciting her poems, and recognized her
from the name.
The Abu Dhabi T.V. station knew of the story and arranged for
their meeting on air alive without the knowledge of the mother.
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