'Poet of resistance' depicted life under Israelis, supported and slammed PLO
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Palestinian poet Mahmoud Darwish died yesterday from heart surgery complications in Houston at age 67, the
Los Angeles Times reports. Considered Palestine’s unofficial poet laureate, Darwish penned the territory’s symbolic Declaration of Independence in 1988 and depicted life under Israeli rule in his work. "He was the...
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