‘To the Poet Who Knew the Storm Would Return’
“Dear Mahmoud, I write to you from Gaza, not as it was, nor even as it is, but as something in between—a city trapped in the silence of its own destruction.” – Alaa Alqaisi
Mahmoud Darwish
New Poetry after Darwish: ‘In Praise of What Is No Longer Ours’
The great twentieth-century poet Mahmoud Darwish was born on this day in 1941. Today, author-translator Alaa Alqaisi shares a letter to Darwish and a poem, after Darwish’s “In Praise of the High Shadow.”
A Poem for Land Day: Mahmoud Darwish’s ‘The Second Olive Tree’
“The olive tree does not weep and does not laugh.”
On March 13, Poems for and after Mahmoud Darwish
“Perhaps you’re there now / You watch what’s happening from afar, / and with the silence of a god, / decide to do nothing.”
New Poetry: Samar Abdel Jaber’s ‘Four Years Without You’
“Perhaps you think poetry / is a waste of time, for eternity can’t be rendered in languages / and death after death / has a different name.”
The Leporetto Art of Etel Adnan – Mixing Japanese art with the poetry of Mahmoud Darwish
Please join us virtually to view the Palestine Museum US’s latest acquisition, artist Etel Adnan’s leporetto, generously loaned for the year by Martha Damage and available for purchase.
Nakba Day: Free Palestinian Ebooks, Magazines, More Recommended Reading
There are at least two digital Nakba Day events today; one with poet Najwan Darwish and another the kickoff events for Palestine Art Week: Also to mark Nakba Day, which […]
From the Archives: How Mahmoud Darwish Inspired a Poetry Movement in Assam, India
“The off-LBF podcast below explores the Miyah poetry movement that was sparked in April 2016 when poet Hafiz Ahmed composed ‘Write Down I Am a Miyah,’ inspired in part by Mahmoud Darwish’s ‘ID Card,’ and shared it on social media.”
Mehmet Hakki Suçin on Translating Mahmoud Darwish into Turkish
“For instance, the Palestinian society is more familiar with references to Christianity than the Turkish society. … So while translating Darwish’s works, I brought the references to verses from the Bible or the Torah to the attention of Turkish readers.”