Birth: NULL/NULL/1905 Death:NULL/NULL/1941
Born in Nablus in 1905; was educated at the Rashidiyah School in Nablus and the St. George’s College in Jerusalem; moved to Egypt for a while, then returned to Nablus where he worked as a school teacher (1929); was among the foremost Palestinian poets in the 1920s and 1930s; studied Literature at the AUB, graduating in 1934; taught at the AUB from 1936-41; tutored his younger sister Fadwa Tuqan in poetry via letters posted from Beirut; served as sub-Director in charge of the Arabic Programs Section of the British Mandate Jerusalem Palestine Broadcasting Station; worked in education in Baghdad; also worked as poet and playwright, whose works focused on the struggle against the Zionists and British occupying forces; is well remembered for his poems and plays – e.g., Red Tuesday about Palestinians executed by the British Mandate authorities (1930); died on 2 May 1941 in Jerusalem; his poems were published posthumously in the book Diwan Ibrahim (Ibrahim’s Collected Poems, 1955).
