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  • Tel Aviv Exhibit About Hospitality Arrives With Some Political Baggage - Jewish Daily Forward (2013/05/24 09:51)
    Jewish Daily ForwardTel Aviv Exhibit About Hospitality Arrives With Some Political BaggageJewish Daily ForwardAs of this writing, the Indian group Raqs Media Collective has been rehearsing and filming a performance on site based around an edited text of selected poems by Yehuda Amichai and Mahmoud Darwish. This is an unusual show by Tel Aviv Museum ...
  • The Griffin Prize Q&A: Fady Joudah - National Post (2013/05/24 05:01)
    The Griffin Prize Q&A: Fady JoudahNational PostQ: If you crash landed on a desert island, what's the one book of poetry you'd hopefully have packed in your suitcase? A: If I Were Another, by Mahmoud Darwish. And Basho. Q: Which songwriter do you think would make a good poet? Why? A: Tom Waits.
  • Palestinian refugees still wait to return home - The Daily Tar Heel (2013/05/22 20:10)
    Palestinian refugees still wait to return homeThe Daily Tar HeelThe memories of this great tragedy are forever engraved in the veins of every Palestinian and will never be forgotten or erased. In the words of the great Palestinian poet, Mahmoud Darwish, “To be a Palestinian means suffering an everlasting hope that ...
  • Kanun Concerto: QPO premieres Marcel Khalife's Kanun Concerto - Peninsula On-line (2013/05/21 17:32)
    Kanun Concerto: QPO premieres Marcel Khalife's Kanun ConcertoPeninsula On-lineHis name was associated with the Palestinian poet Mahmoud Darwish. He also played a fundamental role in the establishment and development of Qatar Philharmonic Orchestra as an artistic consultant, composer and board of directors' member. For the ...
  • Ramallah, Palestine's De Facto Capital - Huffington Post (2013/05/21 09:48)
    Huffington PostRamallah, Palestine's De Facto CapitalHuffington PostBut a thoughtful museum at the tomb of the Palestinian poet Mahmoud Darwish introduced me to the author and poet who wrote the Palestinian Declaration of Independence. Darwish, who died in 2008, worked with Arafat but used a pen rather than a gun as ...and more »
  • As Israel's occupation drags on, boycotts are one way forward - The National (2013/05/19 07:17)
    The NationalAs Israel's occupation drags on, boycotts are one way forwardThe National"Besiege your siege" - the cry of the late Palestinian poet Mahmoud Darwish- acquires a new meaning in this context. Since convincing a colonial power to heed moral pleas for justice is, at best, delusional, many around the world now understand the ...and more »
  • How do I get to the corner of Arafat and Farid al-Atrash? - Haaretz (2013/05/17 02:28)
    How do I get to the corner of Arafat and Farid al-Atrash?HaaretzThus, there are streets named for singers, such as Mohammed Abdel Wahab and Farid al-Atrash, poets ‏(Mahmoud Darwish Street‏), places ‏(Kafr Biram Street‏), and historic figures ‏(Raja Abu Ria, who was killed in 1976 in the first Land Day; the late Arab ...and more »
  • Opinion: Nakba; Remembering 65years of Oppression - PKKH (2013/05/17 00:45)
    Opinion: Nakba; Remembering 65years of OppressionPKKHMay 15th, 2013, marked the 65th commemoration of the Nakbah – the Great Catastrophe, described by Mahmoud Darwish as “an extended present that promises to continue in the future.” 65 years back, this day drenched universal human conscience in blood ...
  • 65th anniversary of Nakba commemorated- UPDATED - www.worldbulletin.net (2013/05/15 01:55)
    www.worldbulletin.net65th anniversary of Nakba commemorated- UPDATEDwww.worldbulletin.netStudent organizer Dan Walfish said that poetry readings will be delivered in both Hebrew and Arabic, and will include the works of Palestinian poet Mahmoud Darwish, a refugee from Tantura, a Palestinian village destroyed by a Zionist militia in May 1948.Catastrophe for 65 yearsSocialist Worker Onlineall 262 news articles »
  • The lifeguard's training - New Zealand Listener (2013/05/14 21:14)
    New Zealand ListenerThe lifeguard's trainingNew Zealand ListenerThe Lifeguard also contains a small group of elegies that centre on the Palestinian poet Mahmoud Darwish, who died in August 2008. At the end of the 1960s, Wedde travelled to the Middle East and spent several months in Amman, Jordan, where his father ...
  • Island of exile: Egypt's forgotten Palestinian community - Ahram Online (2013/05/14 15:26)
    Ahram OnlineIsland of exile: Egypt's forgotten Palestinian communityAhram OnlineThe small classroom is papered with posters of deceased Palestinian leader Yasser Arafat, former premier Salam Fayyad and renowned Palestinian poet Mahmoud Darwish. "The students need more teachers, plus they need to know more about the history of ...and more »
  • Mideast: Palestinians commemorate 65th Nabka (Catastrophe) - ANSAmed (2013/05/14 10:50)
    Montreal GazetteMideast: Palestinians commemorate 65th Nabka (Catastrophe)ANSAmedAbout 100 Arab and Jewish Tel Aviv University students yesterday organized a Nakba commemoration, reading out the names of the Palestinian villages that once dotted what is now Israeli territory, as well as poetry by Palestinian poet Mahmoud Darwish ...At Tel Aviv University, A Battle Over MemoryIn These TimesDespite threats, students to commemorate Nakba at Tel Aviv UniversityThe Electronic Intifadaall 220 news articles »
  • A Tale of Two Poets - The Majalla Magazine (2013/05/09 02:13)
    A Tale of Two PoetsThe Majalla MagazineHacker is an admirer of the late Mahmoud Darwish; Madani admires the work of Abdellatif Laâbi. It is wonderful to see how the two communicate with each other, having almost created a language of their own, where French is smattered with Arabic and an ...
  • Land, my land: One issue that can be resolved - +972 Magazine - Independent commentary from Israel and the Palestinian territories (2013/05/06 07:58)
    Land, my land: One issue that can be resolved+972 Magazine - Independent commentary from Israel and the Palestinian territoriesThe Jewish community grew up on the words of poet Alexander Penn: “Land my land, merciful till death, a mighty wind roiled your ruins, I have wooed you in blood.” On the other hand, in “Poem of the Land” Palestinian poet Mahmoud Darwish wrote: “In the ...and more »
  • “Bridging Cultures: Muslim Journeys” at the Peterborough Library and the ... - The Keene Sentinel (2013/05/04 13:15)
    “Bridging Cultures: Muslim Journeys” at the Peterborough Library and the ...The Keene SentinelBetween these two film showings, on Tuesday, June 11th, Jim Kates will read from, and discuss, the works of three poets, from Syria, Palestine and Morocco—Ali Ahmad Sa'idEsber, Mahmoud Darwish and RachidaMadani. At the Mariposa, Olga Davidson will ...and more »
  • Palestinian Poet Mahmoud Darwich Gives Reading at Carthage Festival - magharebia.com (2013/05/03 12:36)
    Palestinian Poet Mahmoud Darwich Gives Reading at Carthage Festivalmagharebia.comThe Carthage International Festival last week included a poetry reading session by renowned Palestinian poet Mahmoud Darwish. His works, mostly written in Arabic but translated to several languages, include "The Song of Palestine," "Letter in Exile ...
  • The Syrian revolution has changed me as a writer - The Guardian (2013/05/03 02:00)
    The Syrian revolution has changed me as a writerThe GuardianIn towns such as Saraqeb, the poetry of Mahmoud Darwish and Muthafar al‑Nawab and songs of love and struggle spread through the streets. The notion of a civil state dominated. The economic situation had deteriorated but was still bearable and sectarian ...and more »
  • Five Pillars of Islam inspire humanitarian message in new bilingual poetry ... - The Electronic Intifada (2013/04/30 20:55)
    The Electronic IntifadaFive Pillars of Islam inspire humanitarian message in new bilingual poetry ...The Electronic IntifadaMy grandfather, who was a poet and storyteller despite being blind, planted the love of poetry in my heart. I used to read to him traditional Arabic poems. It was an occasion to introduce the poetry of Mahmoud Darwish, Samih al-Qasim and Tawfiq Zayyad ...
  • The Classical Music Network - ConcertoNet (2013/04/30 16:30)
    The Classical Music NetworkConcertoNetDavid Krakauer's clarinet mournfully wends around soprano Mellissa Hughes' vocal of poetry by Mahmoud Darwish. It is the words of a mother addressing her son's grave, translated by the composer to English from Arabic. “If you'll not be a rain, my love ...Fairouz: Native InformantEDGEOnTheNetall 2 news articles »
  • The Other Side of Silence - AllAfrica.com (2013/04/24 06:25)
    The Other Side of SilenceAllAfrica.comHis poetic sensibility, magnificent as it was, had serious limits. But, writing on ... It is more usually the case that, as Mahmoud Darwish observed, in Beirut in August of 1982, "Memory doesn't remember but receives the history raining down on it ...

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