Mahmud Darwish (محمود درويش)
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Poemas

يختارني الإيقاع árabe

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لي حكمة المحكوم بالإعدام árabe

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سيجيء يوم آخر árabe

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سقط الحصان عن القصيدة árabe

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في القدس árabe

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لم يسألوا: ماذا وراء الموت árabe

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لا شيء يعجبني árabe

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هو هادئ و أنا كذلك árabe

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في الانتظار árabe

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حالة حصار árabe

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Mahmud Darwish محمود درويش
Author

About

* 13.03.1941, Al-Birweh, Palestina
† 09.08.2008, Houston/Texas, Estados Unidos

Mahmoud Darwish, born in 1941 in Al-Birweh, Palestine, fled to Lebanon with his family in 1948. After the establishment of the state of Israel he and his family returned to Palestine.
As a young man, Darwish faced house arrest and imprisonment for his political activism and for publicly reading his poetry. In 1969 he started studying in Moscow and moved to Cairo in 1970.
In 1972 he became an editor of the journal “Palestine Affairs”, which is published in Beirut, and Head of the PLO Palestine Research Center in Beirut in 1975.
In 1981 he founded and edited the journal Al-Karmel.

Darwish became a board member of the PLO in 1987, but quit the organization in 1993 after the Oslo agreement came into effect.

Mahmoud Darwish is the author of over 30 books of poetry and eight books of prose. His poem collection “Leaves of the Olive Tree” gained him fame in the 60s. Mahmoud Darwish’s works have been translated into various languages.

The highly respected Palestinian poet Mahmud Darwisch died August 09, 2008 after a heartoperation in the Memorial Hermann Texas Medical Center in Houston.