Commemorating Elias Abu Shabaka at Aintoura

* On Sunday the 24th of this month, the Aintoura institute held a memorial gathering for the poet Elias Abu Shabaka... Speakers at the gathering were Mr. Salah Labaki, president of the Ahl al-Qalam Society, Dr. Salim Haidar, Mr. George Ghurayyib, and Mrs. Emily Fares Ibrahim; they spoke of the grievous loss that has befallen modern Arabic poetry with the death of the fiery poet Elias Abu Shabaka.