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| 13 March 2011

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Oh, brother Darwish! What a bad luck, If you had just waited and postponed your departure two or three years until you see the dreams of freedom awaken in our Arab world. You, who always amazed us with the new worlds you would conquer through images and language. How would you have felt if you |

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| 13 March 2011

|  On Mahmoud Darwish’s Birthday, we celebrate the National Palestinian Culture Day. Darwish has a unique presence in the contemporary human literature, and he is one of the founders of the Palestinian national identity. He was standing here, in this university, fifteen years ago saying to his audience: |

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| 13 March 2011

|  As I wrote in the prologue to the Spanish edition of From Palestine, published fifteen years ago, “a foreign reader wishing to become familiar with the poetry of Mahmoud Darwish must first consider a number of issues. Darwish’s dual status as a Palestinian and Arabic poet positions him in |

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The Panel Judges of Mahmoud Darwish Award for Creativity, in its second annual meeting, held in Amman, November 26, 2011, decided to grant its award to both the Spanish writer Juan Goytisolo and the Palestinian writer Mahmoud Shukair.
The winners of the award are chosen in accordance |

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