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“Who am I to disappoint the suspicion of nothingness?”
In the powerful poetry of Mahmoud Darwish, the acclaimed Palestinian poet and a leading voice in Arabic literature, human suffering is met with an illumination born of human experience. Never turning away from death’s constant presence, Darwish seeks to live life as a rare gift: fully, passionately, and in the company of others.
"Had I walked slowly,
a rifle might have separated my shadow
from the cedar that kept vigil through the night.
Had I walked quickly,
I might have been shattered to pieces
and turned into a thought remembered now and then."