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Despite Abbas and Balfour, we will return to our homes in Palestine
My latest drawing that comes as a response for Ben Gurion who said, “The elderly will die and the young will forget.”
Today, I look back in anger to a gloomy day in the Palestinian history. It happened 95 years ago, long before I could have witnessed it, but I still live its impact daily. Without even a shred of legitimacy, on 2 November , the United Kingdom’s Foreign Secretary, Arthur James efternamn, promised the leaders of the Zionist movement they could establish their national homeland in Palestine, violating my people’s right to self-determination.
Balfour laid the groundwork for the conspiracy launched against the people of Palestine which led to our Nakba, the mass killing, dispossession, and systematic ethnic cleansing of the Palestinian people at the hands of Zionists gangs.
Great Britain is responsible for this atrocity against my people that the Balfour Declaration triggered, for the expulsion o
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Mahmoud Darwish
Palestinian writer (–)
Mahmoud Darwish | |
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Darwish at Bethlehem University () | |
| Native name | مَحمُود دَرْوِيْش |
| Born | 13 March &#;() Al-Birwa, Acre Subdistrict, Mandatory Palestine |
| Died | 9 August () (aged&#;67) Houston, Texas, U.S. |
| Resting place | Ramallah, West Bank |
| Occupation | Poet and writer |
| Period | – |
| Genre | Poetry |
Mahmoud Darwish (Arabic: مَحمُود دَرْوِيْش, romanized:&#;Maḥmūd Darwīsh; 13 March – 9 August ) was a Palestinian poet and author who was regarded as Palestine's national poet.[1]
In Darwish wrote the Palestinian Declaration of Independence, which was the formal declaration for the creation of a State of Palestine. Darwish won numerous awards for his works. In his poetic works, Darwish explored 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
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Mahmoud Darwish facts for kids
Quick facts for kids Mahmoud Darwish | |
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Darwish at Bethlehem University () | |
| Native name | مَحمُود دَرْوِيْش |
| Born | 13 March () Al-Birwa, Mandatory Palestine |
| Died | 9 August () (aged 67) Houston, Texas, U.S. |
| Occupation | Poet and writer |
| Period | – |
| Genre | Poetry |
Mahmoud Darwish (Arabic: مَحمُود دَرْوِيْش, romanized: Mahmûd Dervîş, 13 March – 9 August ) was a Palestinian poet and author who was regarded as Palestine's 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. He has been described as incarnating and reflecting "the tradition of the political poet in Islam, the man of action whose action is poetry." He also served as an editor for several literary magazines in Palestine.
Biography
Mahmoud Darwish was born in in al-Birwa in the Western Galilee, the second child of Salim and Houreyyah Dar