“He was the prince of words, and his name was Mahmoud Darwish,” said Lebanese novelist Elias Khoury. Darwish was a poet of enormous sensitivity with a fighting spirit who used poetic phrases such as: ...

Archipelago Books, 168 pages, $16.00. Two summers ago, I dined at a Ramallah restaurant with a Fatah leader. I ordered Taibeh, the local beer, but my host chose Heineken, remarking: “I just dined with ...

What drew you to Darwish in the first place? Mahmoud Darwish represents the different experiences that Palestinians have been living for 75 years. He was expelled from his village in Palestine in 1948 ...

This second volume by the late, great Palestinian poet Darwish (1941–2008) to be translated by Palestinian-American doctor/poet Joudah comprises four nonconsecutive books of longer poems spanning 1990 ...

Hollywood actor Richard Gere recently read a poem by the late Palestinian poet Mahmoud Darwish in a video on social media to show solidarity with Palestinians in Gaza. Read More: Here’s the VIP Guest ...

Fady Joudah memorized poems as a child, reciting stanzas in exchange for coins from his father and uncle. The poems, he would come to recognize, were by Mahmoud Darwish, a literary staple of ...

This article was originally on a blog post platform and may be missing photos, graphics or links. See About archive blog posts. Palestinian poet Mahmoud Darwish has died at age 67; the author-activist ...

Palestinian Consul General and Prince of Poets among the Participants Dubai, August 11, 2008 - A number of prominent literary figures and public officials, including the Palestinian Consul General in ...