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That liberty is a great thing we may know from our own feelings, and we may likewise judge so from the conduct of the white-people, in the late war.
Mahmoud Darwish
Born: March 13, 1941
Died: August 9, 2008 (aged 67)
Bio: Mahmoud Darwish was a Palestinian poet and author who was regarded as the Palestinian national poet. He won numerous awards for his works. Darwish used Palestine as a metaphor for the loss of Eden, birth and resurrection, and the anguish of dispossession and exile.
Known for:
- Almond Blossoms and Beyond (2005)
- State of siege (2004)
- Unfortunately, It Was Paradise (2003)
- In the Presence of Absence (2006)
- If I Were Another: Poems