{"id":19872,"date":"2014-11-29T14:38:27","date_gmt":"2014-11-29T12:38:27","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.sana.sy\/en\/?p=19872"},"modified":"2014-11-29T14:39:07","modified_gmt":"2014-11-29T12:39:07","slug":"lebanese-prominent-poet-and-writer-said-aqel-passes-away","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/archive.sana.sy\/en\/?p=19872","title":{"rendered":"Lebanese prominent poet and writer Said Aqel passes away"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Beirut, SANA- Lebanese elite poet, writer and language reformer Said Aqel passed away in Beirut at an age of 102.<\/p>\n<p>Aqel is considered one of the most prominent writers and poets in Lebanon and the Arab world as he left a large cultural and literary legacy, as his poems were characterized with\u00a0 symbolism and richness.<\/p>\n<p>He was a staunch advocate of the Lebanese dialect as he designed a Latin-based &#8220;Lebanese alphabet&#8221; made up of 37 letters.\u00a0 Aqel&#8217;s call to use the Lebanese colloquial language sparked a big controversy.<\/p>\n<p>In 1981 Aqel published a number of poems in French under the title &#8220;The Gold &#8216; .<\/p>\n<p>In\u00a0 1962, he established&#8221; Said Aqel poetry awards&#8221; which have been granted to many Lebanese intellectuals and artists.<\/p>\n<p>H. Zain \/<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Beirut, SANA- Lebanese elite poet, writer and language reformer Said Aqel passed away in Beirut at an age of 102. Aqel is considered one of the most prominent writers and poets in Lebanon and the Arab world as he left a large cultural and literary legacy, as his poems were characterized with\u00a0 symbolism and richness. &hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":19875,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[8,155],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-19872","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","","category-arts-culture","category-figures"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/archive.sana.sy\/en\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/19872"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/archive.sana.sy\/en\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/archive.sana.sy\/en\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/archive.sana.sy\/en\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/archive.sana.sy\/en\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=19872"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/archive.sana.sy\/en\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/19872\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/archive.sana.sy\/en\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/19875"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/archive.sana.sy\/en\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=19872"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/archive.sana.sy\/en\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=19872"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/archive.sana.sy\/en\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=19872"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}