Tagged: Poetry

An accessible look at Darwish’s life and work, at long last
Sarah Irving, Electronic Intifada

An accessible look at Darwish’s life and work, at long last

It is hard to talk about modern Palestinian culture without mentioning Mahmoud Darwish. The late Palestinian “poet laureate,” one of the greatest poets writing in Arabic in the twentieth century, Darwish’s brilliance looms large, six years after his death. (photo: WHAT_4 via photopin cc)

on July 1, 2014
Links between struggle and art probed in new book on Palestinian poets
Sarah Irving, The Electronic Intifada

Links between struggle and art probed in new book on Palestinian poets

Khaled Furani's Silencing the Sea: Secular Rhythms in Palestinian Poetry is an anthropological study of Palestinian poets, particularly those living in Israel and the occupied West Bank.

on January 22, 2013
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