"Darwish is to be read with urgency, in the night, when nothing else moves but his lines."-The Village Voice"Every beautiful poem is an act of resistance," asserts Darwish. Both voice of the Palestini
This compelling study presents an original look at how 'the nation' is represented in the literature of the Middle East. It includes chapters on Egypt, Sudan, Lebanon, Iraq, Palestine and Israel, draw
One of the Arab world's greatest poets uses the 1982 Israeli invasion of Lebanon and the shelling of Beirut as the setting for this sequence of prose poems. Mahmoud Darwish vividly recreates the sight
