Mahmoud Darwish: ‘The End of Things’
There are events around the world this September 25-27 celebrating the poetry of Mahmoud Darwish, after the Arab World Institute and Centre Pompidou declared September 25 to be “Mahmoud Darwish Poetry Day.”
There are events around the world this September 25-27 celebrating the poetry of Mahmoud Darwish, after the Arab World Institute and Centre Pompidou declared September 25 to be “Mahmoud Darwish Poetry Day.”
“Are you tired of walking / My son, are you tired?”
“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
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.”
“The olive tree does not weep and does not laugh.”
“Perhaps you’re there now / You watch what’s happening from afar, / and with the silence of a god, / decide to do nothing.”
“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.”
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.
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 […]