The author, activist, and exile Mahmoud Darwish died in 2008. He was a legend in Palestine. Ten years after his death, he is being commemorated at Bozar by three writers who feel an affiliation with Darwish’s life and work.
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Three writers commemorate Mahmud Darwish
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There's the legendary South African and former exile Breyten Breytenbach, who is now almost eighty and who wrote a poem about Darwish after he died, the Palestinian poet Asmaa Azaizeh, who was the first director of the Mahmoud Darwish Museum in Ramallah, and the New York-based Iraqi author Sinan Antoon, who translated Darwish’s work.
I'M THE STRANGER 19/9, 20.00, Bozar
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