Comments

Dear Jehan

I read your article and learnt a lot about Abu Omar.A great example for the new generation. The web site also is a great idea. I will certaintly urge my students and colleagues to check the web site continuously.

Fadia Abdul Hadi

Dear May

As you well know…The Martyrs never die.Our great Mentor, Teacher, Professor and Revolutionary HANNA MIKHAIL (ABU OMAR) is now back on tra. His great and most wonderful book is not to be read but carefully studied. He was a prophet. May his soul rest in peace and long live the soul of our Martyrs.#I envy you being the sister of Dr Hanna Mikhail.

Jabra Khoury

It is great dear May, I read it and wanted to call you! I envy you and Hassan for knowing him in person ! His extraordinary biography confirms my belief that our people’s spirit is like his, immortal.

Razan Suayter

Comments on Jehan Helou’s article about Abu Omar which was published in the Journal of Palestine Studies (in Arabic) in issue no. (89, winter 2012).

حنا ميخائيل (أبو عمر): سيرة مناضل وإنسان عصيّة على الاختفاء

مقالة نشرت في "مجلة الدراسات الفلسطينية"، العدد 89 (شتاء 2012).

Yesterday after midnight, after 2 a.m. the first hours of the year 2012, I was reading the IPS magazine, the Arabic one, it’s not in the market, but I got it from the IPS…. was sleepy enough, but I said let me go thru it. There I found you, with that wonderful article about Abu Omar, I started reading, could not resist, but I was no more sleepy, and finished it all. I enjoyed reading it that much, so nicely written with grace and honesty, you gave a full picture of the great man, pleases go on writing.

Bayan al Hout

Wonderful article. You certainly did him Justice. Nobody could have said it better. You, also, are very special. (I guess birds of feather flocked together.) God bless you and keep you.

Joyce Hanna

This is such a wonderful article! It does a lot to show the ethics ,values and morals that he practiced in his struggle for the liberation of all people from greed, lack of vision and equality. His integrity is a great example for all.

Jean Zaru

Thank you Jehan for sharing. It seems like yesterday. He will always be alive in our heart.

Janan Bateh

Very well written article by Jehan....you get inspired and touched the more you read and know about Abu Omar but we saw that traits that Jehan described in our late teta Aziza when she lived with us in Amman

Ramzi Khoury

I got a chance to share Jehan’s article with my family, a few friends, and I had the girls read it and learn about Khalo Hanna’s life. Khalo Hanna lives on forever in our hearts and minds, we have learned a lot from his "story", though we are still under occupation but our people believe in freedom and justice and are able to tell the world our story ... we will have a country of our own and peace one day ... I hope during my lifetime.

Rania Esau

Great article. I enjoyed every bit of information in it, be it ’nidal’ or personal. The article is well structured and written in an attractive manner that catches the reader’s attention. You beautifully summarized his rich life and humanitarian character. I suppose writing about Hanna was a great inspiration to you. I am sure anyone who knew Hanna or knew of him will enjoy reading it and might ask you for more.

Amal Karam

What a beautiful article. It is informative about Abu Omar al munadel and Abu Omar the person. A great personality in all aspects. The ending sent goose bumps up my spine. You and him are a national treasure.

Hale Helou

I read it this morning and was struck by the simple yet eloquent style that summed up his life beautifully and made him feel more real to those who never knew him than ever.

Zeina Karam

Very nice article .. I guess you too found a way to beautifully narrate Ammo Hannah’s life in a short few pages. It gives us a small window into the life of Abu Omar with its major highlights. Thanks again for sharing all this with us. It makes us somehow feel connected to the man who is long gone but never forgotten.

Raghida Helou

The comments below were received after the website was updated to include audio clips and the article written about Abu Omar in the Journal of Palestine Studies.

Dear Jehan,

Greetings – and thank you SO much for sharing this wonderful website and article. I am saying "wonderful" because it is truly beautiful to finally read and learn more about Hanna, his political thoughts, ideology and teachings
(...) AND I loved the poem "reaching forty". I will enjoy it more in the coming days. Maybe there is a way I can share it on Facebook - I will try.
Thanks again for sharing, dear Jehan!

On Facebook:

My dear friend Jehan Helou shared this wonderful website in memory of her husband Hanna Mikhail (Abu Omar). Abu Omar and nine of his comrades in the Palestinian resistance disappeared outside northern Lebanon in July 1976. their whereabouts where never known. please read and share so that we don’t forget this important part of Palestinian resistance history - http://abu-omar-hanna.info/

Nora Ingdal

I have just read your piece on your beloved partner Abu ’Umar. What a beautiful man he was. I loved the fact that he was determined to make ideas, cultural and political, accessible to the ordinary person. I smiled at his occasional impatient behaviour regarding sexual equality in the home. I have much to learn still. The conditions in which he applied his ideas in practice are also mind blowing. Abu ’Umar’s selflessness is such a rare quality. I’ll read the other literature too. It will also help me understand the place I am visiting in November that much more.

David Clinch

Thank you so much for sending me the new website on your husband. What a work of love and a testimony to his amazing life! I wish I had had a chance to meet him.

Mona Halabi

Thanks for sending me this. It is touching and sad at the same time to see what we have become and what we could have been. Greetings to all my friends in Ramallah.

Fouad Moughrabi

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