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![Mahmoud Darwish (born March 13, 1941, Al-Birwa, Palestine [now El-Birwa, Israel]—died August 9, 2008, Houston, Texas, U.S.) was a Palestinian poet and author who gave voice to the struggles of the Palestinian people. His poems are noted for their themes of loss, exile, and resistance. Darwish was the second of eight children in a family of middle-class farmers who lived in the village of Al-Birwa, Palestine (now El-Birwa, Israel). After the establishment of the State of Israel in 1948, Darwish witnessed massacres that forced his family to escape to Lebanon. A year later their clandestine return to their homeland put them in limbo, as their village had been razed and they were declared “present-absent aliens.” The family settled in Deir al-Asad, a village in the Galilee region of northern Israel. Darwish began writing poetry at a young age, though there were no books in his home. He was exposed to poetry through listening to the old Arabic legends that his grandfather and neighbors recited and through the songs of an itinerant singer passing through his village. When he was 12, Darwish was invited by his school to write and recite a poem to celebrate the establishment of the State of Israel. His finished piece was written in the voice of an Arab boy speaking to a Jewish boy about the status of Arabs in Israel. In response, a military official summoned Darwish to his office and warned him against writing such poems. However, he continued to use his developing craft to express Palestinian resistance. Beginning at age 16, he was arrested and imprisoned on several occasions for reciting poetry and traveling without a permit between villages. Follow : @philosophy.zero #existentialism #stoicism #deepquotes #TikTokCreatorSearchInsightsIncentive #stoicismmotivation](/video/cover/7671197944883793165.webp)