Mahmoud Darwish

✶March 13, 1941

†August 9, 2008

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About their life

Mahmoud Darwish was a Palestinian author and poet. He wrote the Palestinian Declaration of Independence, which formally established the State of Palestine in November 1988, and is widely regarded as the country's national poet. His poetry and other literature, for which he won numerous awards internationally, was published in Arabic, while he also spoke English, French, and Hebrew.

Palestinian author and poet (1941–2008)

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