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Mahmoud Darwish (Arabic: مَحمُود دَرْوِيْش, romanized: Maḥmūd Darwīsh; 13 March 1941 – 9 August 2008) was a Palestinian poet and author who was regarded as Palestine's national poet. [1] In 1988 Darwish wrote the Palestinian Declaration of Independence, which was the formal declaration for the creation of a State of ...
Al Karmel was established by Mahmoud Darwish in Beirut, Lebanon, in 1981. [1] Darwish edited the magazine until his death. [1] [2] Its publisher was Al Karmel Cultural Foundation. [1] Elias Khoury was the editor of the magazine between 1981 and 1982. [3]
Darwish and Darvish (and in French more prominently Darwich and Darwiche) are alternate transliterations of the Persian word "dervish", used in Arabic: درويش, referring to a Sufi aspirant. There is no v sound in most Modern Arabic dialects and so the originally Persian word is usually pronounced with a w sound in Arabic.
Memory for Forgetfulness (Arabic: Dhakirah li-al-nisyan) is a 1987 prose poem by Palestinian poet Mahmoud Darwish. The work is a memoir of the Siege of Beirut during the Lebanese Civil War and the 1982 Israeli invasion of Lebanon. It was translated into English in 1995 by Ibrahim Muhawi, and into Hebrew by Salman Masalha.
"A Soldier Dreams Of White Lilies" demonstrates Darwish's "early mastery of dialogue," which he uses to go "past the aesthetic and into political and intellectual vision." [ 4 ] : xxii, 156–158 The poem is a conversation over alcohol and cigarettes between an Israeli soldier and the speaker, whose name is Mahmoud, retold in first-person ...
Tiffany Darwish has a new greatest hits album on the horizon. But the ’80s teen pop star better known as Tiffany isn’t just repackaging the original recordings of the biggest songs of her ...
Dervish, Darvesh, or Darwīsh (from Persian: درویش, romanized: Darvīsh) [1] in Islam can refer broadly to members of a Sufi fraternity (tariqah), [2] [3] [4] or more narrowly to a religious mendicant, who chose or accepted material poverty.
Darwish Pasha, also spelled Dervish Pasha, was the Ottoman beylerbey (governor-general) of Damascus Eyalet from 1571 to 1574. [1] In 1574 he constructed an Islamic building complex consisting of a mosque, madrasa, mausoleum, and a fountain, which came to be called the Darwishiyya Madrasa after him. [ 2 ]