Mahmoud Darwish
Updated 2023-10-25
2023-10-24 Journeys to Gaza – with Mahmoud Darwish and Joe Sacco Arguably Palestine’s national poet, Mahmoud Darwish has always been very dear to the Palestinian people. This author remembers attending a tribute to the poet after his passing away in 2008. As ordinary Palestinians came up to the mic to read his poems or say a few words, they would just dissolve into tears. He was among the few poets who expressed in the most searing and stark ways the realities and injustice of dispossession, rootlessness of refugees, the ache of belonging to one’s land.
His book, Journal of an Ordinary Grief (2010) is dedicated to the people of Gaza. In it there is a section called “Silence for the Sake of Gaza.” Here is what Gaza is for the poet: https://countercurrents.org/2023/10/journeys-to-gaza-with-mahmoud-darwish-and-joe-sacco/
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