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  2. Memory for Forgetfulness - Wikipedia

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    In Memory for Forgetfulness, Darwish uses symbolism of birth, death, coffee, doves, and worms to discuss the fear of existence during the Lebanese civil war and the Israeli invasion of Lebanon. In addition, the poem extensively uses the same symbols to discuss Darwish's perception of the Palestinians' loss of their homeland. [citation needed]

  3. Dervish - Wikipedia

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    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.

  4. Mahmoud Darwish - Wikipedia

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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 ...

  5. Palestinian Declaration of Independence - Wikipedia

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    It, however, maintains the status of the Palestine Liberation Organization as the representative of the Palestinian people within the United Nations system. On 31 December 2014, the United Nations Security Council voted down a resolution demanding the end of Israeli occupation and Palestinian statehood by 2017. Eight members voted for the ...

  6. Three Hours To Change Your Life - images.huffingtonpost.com

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    many goals made it impossible to keep track of even half of them! The exercise has now been simplified to help us find our top ten goals, and the whole process takes about three hours. But setting our goal of running a marathon that first morning of 1980 was the start of a new way of living for us. And once I turned the process Your Best Year Yet®

  7. Darwish - Wikipedia

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    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.

  8. Dervish movement (Somali) - Wikipedia

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    Taleh fortress, the Dervish capital.. The Dervish movement temporarily created a Somali "proto-state", according to Markus Hoehne. [20] It was a mobile state with fluid boundaries and fluctuating population given the guerrilla style militant approach of Dervishes and their practice of retreating to sparsely inhabited hinterland whenever the colonial forces with superior firearms overwhelmed them.

  9. Al Karmel - Wikipedia

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    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]