Mahmoud Darwish was a renowned Palestinian poet and author, widely regarded as Palestine's national poet. Born in 1941 in the village of al-Birwa, he used lyrical and evocative language to explore ...

Palestinian national poet Mahmoud Darwish’s works are seeped in the sights and sounds and sorrows of his beloved homeland. Placed under house arrest in his youth for his political activism and ...

Poet Mahmoud Darwish's tomb in Ramallah, Palestine. ... Archipelago Books, 2010, page 69; See, for example, his contestation of this myth in the Palestinian Declaration of Independence, ...