Tehran - BORNA - 100 freedom-loving poets from around the world protested against the killing of 3 poets in Israel’s attacks on Iran and Gaza, as well as against the killing of mothers and children anywhere in the world.
These 100 poets from different countries and continents signed a protest statement that was written at the initiative of Iranian poet Alireza Bahrami, editor-in-chief of Asre Rowshan magazine.
(Poets who want their names to be included as signatories of this statement can leave Their name and the name of their country at the bottom of this text, in the comments.
The new list of signatories of the statement will be updated and announced in several times.)
Statement and list of signatory poets and names of countries:
The monster of war is destructive. It is the enemy of people's lives and all human values that have been tried to be discovered for centuries.
The monster of war is against all creation and is the beginning of destruction. It kills children and women. The demon of war also kills poets; the heirs of water, wisdom and light.
Parnia Abbasi, an Iranian poet, was killed in her bed, at home, by one of the Israeli attacks on Tehran. She was 24 years old and did not have the opportunity to see the publication of her first book of poetry.
Heba Abu Nada was another poet who was killed a few months ago in the bombings of Gaza by the army of the occupying army of Israel. She was 32 years old and published several books of poetry. Rifaat al-Arir was also a 44-year-old poet and university lecturer who was killed in the same way.
Poets are narrators of the beauties of the world and life who reveal the ugly face of war.
We, the freedom-loving poets of the world, with respect for the difference in human beliefs, condemn the murder of children, mothers and poets everywhere in the world.
We hope that politicians will reach a point of transformation that they will read a book of poetry and then think a little.
Signatories:
Ahmed Mossad Ahmed – Egypt
Ali Al-Shalah – Iraq
Alireza Bahrami – Iran
Alex Pausides – Cuba
Al-Hassan Al-Kameh – Morocco
Amer Al-Tayeb - Iraq
Ana María Oviedo Palomares – Venezuela
Angela Kosta – Albania
Anne Waldman – USA
Annie John – India
Antonio Trujillo – Venezuela
Armine Vaghramyan Pahlavuni – Armenia
Ashraf Aboul-Yazid (Ashraf Dali) – Egypt
Augustin Guambo – Ecuador
Avaz Qurbanlı - Azerbaijan
Belen Ojeda – Venezuela
Benjamin Martinez Hernandez – Venezuela
Bhawani Shankar Nial – India
Bhoj Kumar Dhamala – Nepal
Cao Shui - China
Carlos Aldazabel – Argentina
Chari Gumeta - Mexico
Deena Elsheikh – Canada
Edgar Mendez – Venezuela
Elisa Mascia - Italy
Eralieva Umutkan Polotovna – Kyrgyzstan
Ertekin -Turkey
EVA Petropoulou Lianou – Greece
Eyup Yelgen - Turkey
Fatima mahdi sahmarani – Lebanon
Feira Lisboa – Venezuela
Felipe Garcia Quentero – Colombia
Franca Colozzo – Italy
Francesco Favetta - Italy
Francis Kurkiev - Eastern Europe
Freddy Nunez – Venezuela
Ferhat Yaşar - Turkey
Fernando Rendon – Colombia
Georg Onsy – Egypt
Giselle Lucia Navarro – Cuba
Hamid Nazarkhah Alisaraei – Iran
Hassan Najmi – Morocco
Heyk Piment - Brazil
Ilaria Giovinazzo – Italy
Javier Cevalloos Perugachia - Ecuador
Joussette Rivodo – Venezuela
Kari Krenn- Argentina
Kristina Anastasia Veras Brzin- Slovenia
Leonardo G. Ruiz – Venezuela
Leonardo Gustavo Ruiz – Venezuela
Linda Kamel – Algeri
Luica Estrada – Colombia
Manik chakrabarty – Bangladesh
Marcia Batista Ramos - Brazil
Marco Antonio Rodríguez Sequeiros – Bolivia
Maria Kolovou Roumelioti – Greece
Marlene Ayala - Argentina
Maria Laura Blanco - Uruguay
Melin Nova - India
Melissa Sauma Vaca - Bolivia
Melita Mely Ratković – Serbia
Memo Acuna - Costa Rica
Moamen Samir - Egypt
Monica Neri – Romania
Mohsen Karimi Rahjerdi – Iran
Muhammad Amir Hossain - Bangladesh
Muhammad Shamsul Huq Babu – Bangladesh
Muhammad Shanazar – Pakistan
Najat Abdulla – Iraq
Narek Manveli Paponzh Arakelyan - Armenia
Nazlı Şehzade – Turkey
Nia Amira Osman – Indonesia
Niloy Rafiq - Bangladesh
Nurcan Ateş – Turky
Nursel Ertekin -Turkey
Nusseiba AttaAllah – Algeria
Penélope Claret Toro León – Venezuela
Perwaiz Shaharyar – India
Reem Gomri – Tunisia
Rodolfo Ramirez Soto – Colombia
Saber Sadipoor – Iran
Sadik Beşirli – Iraq (Turkmen)
Sadikur Rahman Rumen – Bangladesh
Samar Najia – USA
Sanjukta Dasgupta – India
Sepideh Jodeyri – Iran - USA
Shirley Villalba – Paraguay
Subhrasankar – India
Sudipto Chatterjee – India
Sumana Naznin – Bangladesh
Sylvie Marie – Belgium
Tumpa Pal – India
Turkia Loucif - Algeria
Vahid Talat - Iran
Virginia Fernandez Collado – Spain
Wali Mahmud - Bangladesh
Wingston Gonzales – Guatemala
Yudum Mingan – Turkey
Zahra Khorshidi – UAE
Zeinab Akil - Lebanon
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