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Write Down, I Am an Arab is a personal and social portrait of the poet and national myth, Mahmoud Darwish. Through his poetry, secret love letters, and exclusive archival materials, Mara'ana unearths the story behind the man who became the mouthpiece of the Palestinian people.
A central theme in Darwish's poetry is the concept of watan or homeland. The poet Naomi Shihab Nye wrote that Darwish "is the essential breath of the Palestinian people, the eloquent witness of exile and belonging..." [63] The poetic work of Mahmoud Darwish has been the subject of extensive studies and analyses in several universities worldwide.
[6]: 19 According to Elias Khoury, Mahmoud Darwish told Leila Shahid the story of the poem, confirming that it was about Darwish's friend Sand. [2] Elias Sanbar was also surprised to discover the soldier of the poem's identity when he participated with Sand in a conversation about peace on a French television channel. [3]
A common genre in much of the neoclassical poetry was the use of the qasida, [43] as well as ghazal or love poem in praise of the poet's homeland. This was manifested either as a nationalism for the newly emerging nation states of the region or in a wider sense as an Arab nationalism emphasising the unity of all Arab people.
One of his prose poems was about the events occurred on 6 June 1982 when Israel invaded Lebanon and was featured in the magazine in 1986. [8] Edward Said was a regular contributor of the magazine, and through his literary critics Said became known in the Arab world. [9] Said's contributions also made Mahmoud Darwish's poems much more eminent. [9]
After the 1948 Palestinian expulsion and flight, poetry was transformed into a vehicle for political activism. From among those Palestinians who became Arab citizens of Israel and after the passage of the Citizenship Law of 1952, a school of resistance poetry was born that included poets like Mahmoud Darwish, Samih al-Qasim, and Tawfiq Zayyad. [17]
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.
Mahmud Derviş, Atı Neden Yalnız Bıraktın (Turkish translation of Mahmoud Darwish's Why Did You Leave the Horse Alone?), Istanbul: Ayrıntı Yayınları, 2017. ISBN 9786053142300. Mahmud Derviş, Bu Şiirin Bitmesini İstemiyorum (Turkish translation of Mahmoud Darwish's I Don't Want This Poem End), Istanbul: Yapı Kredi Yayınları, 2016.