Arab Liberation Front (Arabic: جبهة التحرير العربية, Jabhet Al-Tahrir Al-'Arabiyah) is a minor Palestinian political faction of the Palestine Liberation Organization (PLO), politically tied to the Iraqi-led Ba'ath movement formerly headed by Saddam Hussein.
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“I saw the Arab map.
It resembled a mare shuffling on,
dragging its history like saddlebags,
nearing its tomb and the pitch of hell.”
—Adonis [Ali Ahmed Said] (b. 1930)
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“my face I don’t mind it,
Because I’m behind it—
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