I was raised to love books. ... Gathered around fire pits, we would discuss the works of Ghassan Kanafani and recite the poems of Mahmoud Darwish we had memorised from books in our library.

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 ...

Amidst the ceasefire between Gaza and Israel, Mahmoud Darwish's poetic lines carry a haunting reminder and deep meaning. Darwish reflected on the future in his verse: 'The war will end, and the ...

Mosab Abu Toha on Mahmoud Darwish. ... The Great Spring 2025 Book Preview. 12 Genre-Stretching Works of Fiction. 6 New Mysteries to Scratch That ‘White Lotus’ Itch. About Us ...

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, ...

Mahmoud Darwish’s “In Jerusalem” (“You killed me … and I forgot, like you, to die”), and Yehuda Amichai’s “Jerusalem” : In the sky of the Old City a kite.

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 ...