“In a piece never published online until now, Mahmoud Darwish describes the Palestinian writer’s difficult duty”
Welcome: A letter from Mahmoud Darwish
▻https://electronicintifada.net/content/welcome-letter-mahmoud-darwish/21081
“The renowned Palestinian poet Mahmoud Darwish was the first writer that the Palestine Festival of Literature approached with a request to be a Founding Patron. He accepted. He was due to speak at PalFest’s inaugural event in the occupied West Bank city of Ramallah in May 2008 but medical reasons prevented him from attending. He sent a letter instead. Darwish passed away three months later in August.
The English translation of his 2008 letter features as the opening piece of This Is Not a Border, a newly published collection of essays, diaries and poems marking a decade of PalFest. Darwish’s letter appears online here for the first time.
Dear Friends,”