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Mahmoud Darwish was born on March 13, 1941, in Al Birweh, Palestine, into a land-owning Sunni Muslim family. During the establishment of the state of Israel in 1948, his village was destroyed and his family fled to Lebanon.

They returned the following year, secretly re-entering their homeland.

As a young man, Darwish faced house arrest and imprisonment for his political activism and for publicly reading his poetry. He joined the Rakahpolitical party in the 1960s.

In 1970, he left for Russia, where he attended the University of Moscow for one year, and then moved to Cairo.

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He lived in exile for twenty-six years, between Beirut and Paris, until 1996. He then settled in Ramallah in the West Bank.

Considered Palestine’s most eminent poet, Darwish published his first collection of poems, Leaves of Olives (Dār al-ʻawda, 1964) in Beirut when he was twenty-two.

Since then, Darwish has published approximately thirty poetry and prose collections, which have been trans