THE AESTHETICS OF CONTEMPORARY PALESTINIAN ZAJAL: DĪWĀN GHEMĀR AL FARAḤ BY TAWFĪQ ḤALABĪ AS A MODEL
Tawfīq Ḥalabī Palestinian Zajal poet (born in 1968) in the village of Dāliyat al-Karmel in northern Israel. He has contributed to the revival of the Zajal pulpit. He is the founder of the Al-Amal Choir and the Al-Bayāder Choir. This year 2022, the Dīwān of Ghemār Al Faraḥ was issued to him, and it contains a group of his poems and Zajal dialogues. Ghemār Al Faraḥ is a documentation of what Tawfīq Ḥalabī organized over the years in the field of spoken folk poetry and Zajal. This research relies on the material of Ghemār Al Faraḥ through reading it and examining the poetic, rhetorical and descriptive aesthetics and poetic images in it. The research acquires its importance by revealing the characteristics of what Al-Zajal excelled in Ghemār Al Faraḥ. The research also reflects a positive picture describing the poetic level spoken in Palestine in this era. Most of the research objectives lie in highlighting the descriptive and rhetorical aesthetics and poetic images in the contemporary Palestinian poetry of Zajal. The research monitors aesthetics related to social implications, human values, and emotional description on the one hand, and the artistic and rhetorical methods used in the subject of Zajal in the Ghemār Al Faraḥ, and then concludes the research with a conclusion presenting its most prominent conclusions.
Keywords: Tawfīq Ḥalabī, Ghemār Al Faraḥ, Zajal, Palestinian Spoken Poetry.