Memory of the Sacred Place: A Reading of “A Return to Qudos” by Hania Lalla Razika

Abstract

The return to the place « Qudos », establishes the Arab identity and
the spirit of belonging to the Palestinian cause which ignited poetic
imagination and made resistance a clever act. It summarized the
intellectual dimension which moves the confession ground. And it
decorates the poem by containing historic data and the eradication of
the Zionist state from the body of the nation and its symbolic death,
though only on paper as an alternative which realizes psychological and
spiritual balance. It also enlarges the circle of touch between the self
and its Arab identity. Hence, the issue of coming back has come as is a
central one in poetry, because it treats the Palestinian cause summarized
in the Qudos issue.