...Khaled Furani A question drives my reading of Mahmoud Darwish’s Mural , chronicling a poet’s quest for his own becoming while facing death: What rhythms of freedom—or what forms of enlightenment—may a person inhabit when facing life’s end? I argue that to this question Mural responds...

... and fate responded. We were witnessing what the Palestinian poet Mahmoud Darwish—he, too, is no longer here to see it—called the retreat of the right of force in front of the advancing might of truth and justice.³ And at its beginning, as at its height, the revolution was expressed in poetry...

... the Harry Levin Prize of the American Comparative Literature Association, and has translated a volume of poetry by the Palestinian poet Mahmoud Darwish, Why Did You Leave the Horse Alone? (2006). He is presently writing two books: Simplicities: A Colonial Archive and For Decolonization: The Lyric Poem...

... paradise served Auerbach as a figure for a reconstituted humanism, in the present era the work of the Palestinian poet Mahmoud Darwish endows it with contemporary resonance. Dante and Dar- wish may seem initially to share little ground of comparison, but on closer 25. See notes to Canto XVIII...

.... That this state of being and this legacy of dislocation could paradoxically be practiced within one’s own homeland is emphasized in the cynical words of the Palestinian poet Mahmoud Darwish: ‘‘Exile’’ he writes, ‘‘is so strong in me, I think I will bring it back home with me, to my ‘homeland (ha-galut col...

... in this land. As a mixed city of Arabs and Jews, Haifa’s story surely begins prior to the 1948 dismembering, as the Palestinian poet Mahmoud Darwish would say of the occupation, wrought upon it by the Zionist Carmeli Brigade in its tellingly named operation misparayyim (Hebrew for “scissors”) and British...

... call reluctant embour- goisement among these social groupings. The Aligarh movement of Sayyid 15. Edward W. Said, ‘‘Reflections on Exile Granta 13 (1984): 160. Faiz makes a brief appearance in Mahmoud Darwish’s memoir of the Israeli siege. See Mahmoud Darwish, Memory for Forgetfulness, translated...

... the course of its twenty-year existence from 1969 to 1988 included Alex La Guma (South Africa), Mahmoud Darwish (Palestine), Agostinho Neto (Angola), Sembène Ousmane (Senegal), Taha Hussein (Egypt), Kateb Yacine (Algeria), Ngũgĩ wa Thiong'o (Kenya), Yusuf al-Sibai (Egypt), Ghassan Kanafani (Palestine...