 Décès de Mahmoud Darwich - وفاة الشاعر الكبير محمود درويش
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August 09, 2008
Mahmoud Darwish (13 March 1941 - 9 August 2008) was a contemporary Palestinian poet and writer of prose. He has published over thirty volumes of poetry, eight books of prose and has served as the editor of several publications, including: Al-Jadid, Al-Fajr, Shu'un Filistiniyya and Al-Karmel. He is recognized internationally for his poetry, which focuses on his strong affection for his lost homeland. His work has won numerous awards, and has been published in at least twenty-two languages. The majority of his work has not been translated into English. In the 1960s, Darwish joined the official Communist Party of Israel, the Rakah, but he is better known for his active work within the Palestine Liberation Organization (PLO). Once a member of PLO Executive Committee, he resigned from the Committee and broke with the PLO in 1993 to protest the continuation of the Oslo Accords. Early Life and Education : In 1941, Darwish was born in the village of al-Birwa, in the Galilee, east of Acre in Palestine. He was the second child of a landowning Muslim family of five boys and three girls. After the establishment of Israel, he fled to Lebanon with his family and stayed there for a year, before returning to the Acre area, which was now in the state of Israel, and settling down in Deir al-Asad. Darwish continued his primary education in Deir al-Asad. Later on, he obtained his secondary education in Kafr Yasif, two kilometers north of Jadeidi. Eventually, Darwish moved to Haifa. His first book of poetry was published when he was only nineteen (Asafir bila ajniha, Wingless birds, 1960). In 1964, he emerged as a major voice of the Palestinian resistance with Awraq Al-zaytun (Leaves of olives). His poetry became extremely popular, especially Identity Card written in 1964 : "Record! I am an Arab And my identity card is number fifty thousand I have eight children And the ninth is coming after a summer Will you be angry? Record! I am an Arab I have a name without a title Patient in a country Where people are enraged . . ." Later life : After completing his secondary education, Darwish began publishing poetry and articles for newspapers and magazines such as Al-Itihad and Al-Jadid, where he later became the editor. In 1961, he joined secretly the Communist Party of Israel, the Maki (later also known as Raqah), and began working as a co-editor of Alfajr. He was repeatedly arrested and imprisoned since for his writing and political activities, and in 1970 he left for Moscow. Later, he moved to Cairo in 1971 where he worked for AL-Ahram daily newspaper. In Beirut, in 1973, he edited the monthly Shu'un Filistiniyya (Palestinian Affairs) and worked as a director in the Palestinian Research Center of the PLO and joined the organisation. In 1981, he founded and became editor of the literary journal Al-Karmel. During the summer of 1982, Beirut was under siege by the Israeli army and was bombed from 13 June to 12 August to drive the PLO out of the city. Darwish related the Palestinian resistance to the Israeli siege in Qasidat Bayrut (1982) and Madih al-zill al'ali(1983), later in the English version in Memory for Forgetfulness (1995). It led the poet to another exile to Cairo, Tunis and Paris. Darwish was elected to the PLO Executive Committee in 1987. In 1988, one of his poems, Passers Between the Passing Words was discussed in the Knesset, he was accused of demanding that the Jews leave Israel, although he claimed he meant they should leave the West Bank and Gaza. The poet wrote : "So leave our land Our shore, our sea Our wheat, our salt, our wound." In 1993, after the Oslo accords, Mahmoud Darwish resigned from the PLO Executive Committee. Darwish has consistently demanded a "tough and fair" stand in negotiations with Israel. He continued as an editor for the Al-Karmel magazine, and lived in Paris before returning to Israel in 1995, entering on a visa to see his mother. He had permission to return for the funeral of his friend Emile Habibi (a writer) and to visit his hometown but for only a few days. While in the West Bank, he was issued a permit to stay in the country by the Israeli authorities. He lived in a central West Bank Palestinian town, Ramallah, where Yasser Arafat had his headquarters. Yossi Sarid, who was Israel's education minister, suggested in March 2000 that some of Darwish's poems should be included in the Israeli high school curriculum. But Prime Minister Ehud Barak declared, "Israel is not ready." He resided in Ramallah and in Amman. Mahmoud Darwish died on Saturday evening at the age of 67 following complications related to recent heart surgery at a US hospital. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mahmoud_Darwish Author: Verseautoujours Keywords: Mahmoud Darwich Palestine Poète Résistant Al Quds الشاعر الفلسطيني المقاوم الكبير محمود درويش فلسطين القدس Added: August 9, 2008
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