Abu Salma

Abu Salma studied at Al-Fadiliya School. The recorded working language is Arabic and English. The field of work recorded is poetry. Works named in the authority record are Kifah Arab Filastin. Distinctions recorded are Lotus Prize for Literature, Order of Palestinian revolution, Order of Jerusalem for Culture, Arts and Literature and Order of Palestine for Culture, Science and Arts.

• Name — عبد الكريم الكرمي Abdul-Karim al-Karmi • Native Name — عبد الكريم سعيد علي منصور الكرمي • Birth Name — Abdul-Karim Sa'id Ali Mansour al-Karmi • Born — 1909 • Birthplace — Tulkarm, Ottoman Empire • Died — 11 October 1980 • Place of death — Washington, D.C., U.S. • Occupation — * Poet • Writer • Politician • Language — * Arabic • English • Citizenship — Palestine Palestinian • Genre — * Poetry • Subject — Poetry • Awards — * Lotus International Reward for Literature (1978) • Order of Palestinian revolution (1980) • Order of Jerusalem for Culture, Arts and Literature (1990) • Order of Palestine for Culture, Science and Arts (2015) • Years Active — 1927–1980 • Relatives — Mahmoud Al-Karmi (brother) Hasan Karmi (brother) Abdul-Ghani Al-Karmi (brother) Ahmad Shakir al-Karmi (brother) Sa'id Ali al-Karmi (father)

Abu Salma was born in 1909 in Tulkarm. He studied law and worked in Haifa in Mandatory Palestine until April 1948. He then moved briefly to Acre and then to Damascus. He also worked briefly for Palestine Broadcasting Service (PBS). He was a participant in the 1936–1939 Arab revolt in Palestine, and his verses about the revolt circulated in the local press as well as orally among Palestinians. He is the brother of Hasan Karmi, Mahmoud Al-Karmi and Abdul-Ghani Al-Karmi.

• Illustration — Abu Salma and Yasser Arafat Poetry • The Exile, 1953. • Songs of My Country, 1959. • Children's Songs, 1964. • My Brush Is from Palestine, 1971. • Collected Works, 1978. Prose • The Struggle of the Arabs of Palestine, 1964. • The Works of Ahmad Shakir al-Karmi: Literary, Critical and Fictional, 1964. • Shaykh Sa‘id al-Karmi, 1973.

He died of sepsis on 11 October 1980 in George Washington University Hospital in Washington, D.C.