![]() ![]() His life had been spent between Egypt, Lebanon, USSR, and France. ![]() He had been moving from country to country. ![]() His first was to Rana Kabbani.ĭarwish had led the typical life of many Palestinians of the 1940’s- exile. Darwish’s formerly wealthy father was forced to work in a quarry to support the large family. Their original village had been destroyed and replaced by a Jewish settlement, so the family settled in a new village nearby, in Galilee. He was the son of a farmer His family fled Israel’s war of independence in 1948 and spent a year as refugees in Lebanon, before returning to Israel. ![]() His personal experience that overlapped with the experiences of so many Palestinians owed him the qualification of a “national poet”.ĭarwish is a Palestinian poet who was born in 1942, Birwa, Palestine (now Israel). He felt as if he had to fight to maintain his Palestinian identity. Darwish, through his personal experiences, felt cut off from the entirety of the Arab world and as if he was a second-class citizen in a Jewish state. His personal experiences had greatly affected him and were the catalysts for his poetic imagination and voice. Mahmud Darwish is considered as one of the leading Palestinian poets of the twentieth century to transmit his personal experience, to which many Palestinians can identify themselves. ![]()
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