I knew Samah Idris among the titles of “literature” during the time of the sober ink when Professional writing was a responsibility outside the framework of development with its negative side, the guardian of the language in all its details and keen to communicate his revolutionary thought to the fullest extent.
Later, I interviewed him twice, and I was no longer that visitor looking for titles of novels. Perhaps I did not reach the rank of direct friendship, but whoever knows Dr. Samah Idris does not lose his compass whose main title is “Palestine.”
A month ago, he wrote on his page, “We will walk and bank in the road.” He attached it with a picture of him in the hospital where he was receiving treatment. Peace be upon him, but the disease cut him off.
The body may leave, but the impact it left behind is ingrained in the conscience of everyone who will complete the path. This country deserves to memorize the commandments of its defenders with pen and thought. They are no less important than those who protect it with bullets, but rather their presence is stronger in more than one place.
Samah Idris, the writer, intellectual, revolutionary, and fighter who managed to overcome the cancer of normalization in all forums and occasions. The virtual world, indeed, has surpassed digital communication, to take us back to the first words of confrontation advocated by the author of the editorials of the “Al-Adab” magazine, which deals with normalization with “Israel” and ways of confrontation, and the last of which was titled “The Luxury of Independent Cultural Production.”
Beirut bid farewell to Dr. Samah Idris, and her grief extended to Palestine, which he used to say, “I will not visit Palestine unless it is liberated.” In an interview with him in 2020, he said to al-Banna: “Because there is an atmosphere of great frustration in the Arab world in light of the deal of the century, but we say from here As a boycott campaign, we are able to confront this deal with determination, will, and smart alliances with all stakeholders to build a unified bloc that resists the Israeli project.
With regard to education, we work to correct matters, because boycott strategies are based on small achievements away from demagoguery. When we believe in our just cause, we do not think about failure at all. Therefore, we do not allow ourselves to say that the battle is great and that we are unable to win it. Failure is synonymous with despair, and we We do not accept it.”
Today we say to him in the presence of absence: this departure has passed the taste of our days, but we will continue the march towards Palestine, we will abolish the heresy of borders, and we will be victorious in the face of the enemy’s soft infiltration. It will strengthen us.
