13 March 1941 (1941-03-13) Al-Birwa, Acre Subdistrict, Mandatory Palestine
Died
9 August 2008(2008-08-09) (aged 67) Houston, Texas, U.S.
Resting place
Ramallah, West Bank
Occupation
Poet and writer
Period
1964–2008
Genre
Poetry
Mahmoud Darwish (Arabic: مَحمُود دَرْوِيْش, romanized: Maḥmūd Darwīsh; 13 March 1941 – 9 August 2008) was a Palestinian poet and author who was regarded as Palestine's national poet.[1]
In 1988, Darwish wrote the Palestinian Declaration of Independence, which was a declaration for the creation of a State of Palestine. Darwish 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.[2][3] He has been described as incarnating and reflecting "the tradition of the political poet in Islam, the man of action whose action is poetry."[4] He also served as an editor for several literary magazines in Israel and the Palestinian territories.
Mahmoud Darwish, Palestinian National Poet, Pen and Ink Portrait by Amitabh Mitra
^"Palestinian 'national poet' dies", BBC News, 9 August 2008.
^Adam Shatz, "A Poet's Palestine as a Metaphor", New York Times, 22 December 2001.
^Maya Jaggi, "Profile: Mahmoud Darwish – Poet of the Arab world", The Guardian, 8 June 2002.
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and other Arab states of the Persian Gulf, such as Qatar (where he met Mahmoud Abbas in 1961). These businessmen and oil workers contributed generously...
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