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MONDAY, NOVEMBER 23, 2009
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NEWS ABOUT: PLO

PLO stories: 2 news summaries

(Newser) - Top PLO official Kamal Medhat and at least three of his bodyguards were killed by a roadside bomb near a refugee camp in southern Lebanon today, security officials tell al-Jazeera. Television footage showed Medhat’s car being blasted into a large crater. A Fatah spokesman said Medhat had been “... More »

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Palestinian Authority • Lebanon • Fatah • al-Jazeera • PLO

OBITUARY

 Palestinian Poet Dead at 67

'Poet of resistance' depicted life under Israelis, supported and slammed PLO

Aug 10, 08 7:56 PM CDT
(Newser) - 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... More »

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Palestine • obituary • poet laureate • writer • Mahmoud Darwish • PLO

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