在費薩尔国王和努里·賽义德統治下的黑暗年代里,数以千計的伊拉克爱国志士为了避免政府的血腥迫害,不得不逃往邻近的阿拉伯国家,主要是叙利亞。在这漫長的岁月里,对祖国,对自己的亲人和底格里斯河、劫发拉底河畔椰子树的眷念,在伊拉克卓越詩人,如阿布杜勒·瓦哈卜·白雅帖的 In the dark years under King Faisal and Nuri Saeed, thousands of Iraqi patriots had to flee to neighboring Arab countries, mainly Syria, in order to avert the bloody persecution of the government. In this long period of time, the fond memories of the motherland, their loved ones and the coconut palms on the Tigris and Hudhari rivers, among the elite poets in Iraq such as Abdul Wahab Baiyat