Mahmoud Darwish the Poet

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Mahmoud Darwish the Poet
Mahmoud Darwish was a Palestinian poet and author, born March 13, 1941 in a village in the Galilee province what is today Israel. Darwish is wonderful example how far hard work, determination and talent can get you in today’s society. Darwish published nearly thirty volumes of his pomes in eight books and in 20 languages, and his work won numerous of international awards. He were a highly respected person all over the world. As a widely perceived symbol of Palestinian, he was the leading spokesman for the Arab view on Israel.
He disallowed accusations of being an anti-semitist by stating that "the accusation is that I hate Jews. It's not comfortable that they show me as a devil and an enemy of Israel. I am not a lover of Israel, of course. I have no reason to be. But I don't hate Jews." (Sachs, 1). Mahmoud Darwin has written a range of poems that direct reflects on the love he have to his Palestine and what was lost 1948 when Israel was created. According to the anthropologist Dr. Qleibo, Mr. Darwish “(…) was a mirror of the Palestinian society, (Al Jazeera...

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