“Darwish is to be read with urgency, in the night, when nothing else moves but his lines.” —The Village Voice By one of the most
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Journal of an Ordinary Grief
A collection of autobiographical essays by one of the greatest poets to come from Palestine. “Every beautiful poem is an act of resistance,” asserts Darwish.
Why Did You Leave the Horse Alone?
At once an intimate autobiography and a collective memory of the Palestinian people, Darwish’s intertwined poems are collective cries, songs, and glimpses of the human
Memory for Forgetfulness August, Beirut, 1982.
Memory for Forgetfulness is an extended reflection on the invasion and its political and historical dimensions. It is also a journey into personal and collective memory.
If I were another
Winner of the PEN USA Literary Award for Translation Mahmoud Darwish was that rare literary phenomenon: a poet both acclaimed by critics as one of
Almond Blossoms and Beyond
The first English translation of recent poetry by the late Mahmoud Darwish, the most important Palestinian contemporary poet. Almond Blossoms and Beyond is one of
A River Dies of Thirst: journals
This remarkable collection of Mahmoud Darwish’s poems and prose meditations is both lyrical and philosophical, questioning and wise, full of irony and protest and play.
The Hundred Years War on Palestine A History of Settler Colonial Conquest and Resistance
In 1899, Yusuf Diya al-Khalidi, mayor of Jerusalem, alarmed by the Zionist call to create a Jewish national home in Palestine, wrote a letter aimed
Transformed landscapes : essays on Palestine and the Middle East in honor of Walid Khalidi
A collection of essays that addresses the Ottoman legacy and its assessment over time, Palestinian Arab dynamics resulting from the cataclysm of the Palestine war,