Author · Palestine
Mahmoud Darwish
Died in 2008
Mahmoud Darwish was born in 1941 in al-Birwa, in Galilee. His family, who had taken refuge in Lebanon in 1948, returned clandestinely and found the village razed; they lived without papers, “present-absent”. A communist journalist in Haifa, arrested several times for his writings, he left in 1970 for Moscow, then Cairo, Beirut, Tunis and Paris, where he edited a literary journal. He drafted the 1988 declaration of independence, left the leadership of the PLO after Oslo, settled in Ramallah in 1995 and died in Houston in 2008.
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- PoetryFewer Rosesورد أقلMahmoud Darwish · 1986Literature