#mahmoud darwish

[soracities]

Mahmoud Darwish, Memory for Forgetfulness: August, Beirut, 1982 (trans. Ibrahim Muhawi) [ID'd]

on context: "[set during] the 1982 Israeli invasion of Lebanon and the shelling of Beirut [...] Memory for Forgetfulness is an extended reflection on the invasion and its political and historical dimensions. It is also a journey into personal and collective memory. What is the meaning of exile? What is the role of the writer in time of war? What is the relationship of writing (memory) to history (forgetfulness)?" (source)

#q #lit #quotes #typography #mahmoud darwish #palestinian lit #memory for forgetfulness #reading #m #x

[ivynightshade]

fatima aamer bilal, from we were put on this earth desperate, hungry and willing.

[text id: you get nervous when someone holds your hand, you wonder if they can feel the rot.]

#fatima aamer bilal #we were put on this earth desperate hungry and willing #poetry #self hatred #self loathing #poeticstories #literature #book qoute #art #book quotations #self deprecation #childhood #girlhood #yearning #longing #poetry collection #poem #dark poetry #dark academia #mental illness #bts #franz kafka #sylvia plath #lana del rey #mitski #hozier #mahmoud darwish #pheobe bridgers #jane austen #web weaving

[population-surface]

#mahmoud darwish #interior decorating #chuuya nakahara #sandra bullock #yaoi manhwa #mile phakphum #age dreaming #csm #diluc #ewa sonnet #feeling spicy #nature #rap3 me #the little mermaid

[contain-painting]

#lando norris #mahmoud darwish #bum #hajime hinata #buffy the vampire slayer #concert #permanent sissy #victorious #hisoka #funko #国产视频 #an0r3c1a

[hero-israel]

My Spanish teacher just gave us a mahmoud darwish poem to translate. The war is hardly brought up in my country. So I want to ask you for your opinion of him, since you are the only jewish blog to have mentioned him. From his wiki, it seems he's ok with a two state solution and peace and hated hamas, but he still saw israel as an enemy and a lot of pro palestinians use his poetry to justify their so called resistance which is just antisemitism. Thank you so for your time and may hamas be defeated and the hostages returned!

Thank you for standing with us!

Mahmoud Darwish is worth reading. Even when he says things I disagree with, he opposed terrorism and suicide bombing and at least seemed open to discussing coexistence. More on his overall stances and views here and here.

He was also honest enough to understand the true reason for the world's fixation on Palestine:

"Do you know why we, the Palestinians, are famous? Because you [an Israeli interviewer] are our enemy. Interest in the Palestine question comes by way of interest in the Jewish question. It's you they're interested in, not me. If our war had been with Pakistan, no one would have heard of me. So we are unlucky that our enemy is Israel, which has so many sympathizers in the world, and we are lucky that our enemy is Israel, because Jews are the center of the world. You have given us defeat and renown." --Mahmoud Darwish, 1996

#mahmoud darwish #israel #palestine

[crescentdreamss]

He was a part of the sun, wanting nothing more than to reach heights, heights that no human ever reached.

I was a part of the moon, wanting nothing more than to reach my sun.

#tumblr poets #dead poets society #mahmoud darwish #sylvia plath #books and literature #literature quotes #classical academia #heartache #love #darkacademia #dark academia #light academia #romantic academia #spilled ink #the tortured poets department

[aridante]

what resembles the grave but isn’t, anne boyer // i didn’t apologize to the well, mahmoud darwish (trans. fady joudah).

#words #anne boyer #mahmoud darwish #comparatives #* #w* #this line from darwish’s poem just made me think about #boyer’s iconic grave-defying poem

[luthienne]

Mahmoud Darwish, from Journal of an Ordinary Grief (tr. from the Arabic by Ibrahim Muhawi)

[Text ID: A place is not only a geographical area; it's also a state of mind. And trees are not just trees; they are the ribs of childhood.]

#mahmoud darwish #journal of an ordinary grief #words #lit #typography #palestinian literature #in the wild forest #xx

[mournfulroses]

Mahmoud Darwish, from "In the Presence of Absence," originally published in 2006

#lit #mahmoud darwish #poetry #longing #words #poetry in translation #writings #selections #fragments #p

[intersectionalpraxis]

"Here are your tortured poets. All from Mahmoud Darwish to Dr. Refat Alareer to Khaled Juma, these are tortured poets. Tortured by longing for a home they can never return to, tortured by the world they were born to for BEING BORN. Palestine, home to the tortured poets department." [@/folkoftheshelf on X. April 20th, 2024.]

#feminist #social justice #free palestine #free gaza #palestine #poetry #poems #palestinian poetry #palestinian liberation #mahmoud darwish #refat alareer #khaled juma #ghassan fayiz kanafani #gaza strip #gaza #writing

[soracities]

Mahmoud Darwish, Memory for Forgetfulness: August, Beirut, 1982 (trans. Ibrahim Muhawi) [ID'd]

on context: "[set during] the 1982 Israeli invasion of Lebanon and the shelling of Beirut [...] Memory for Forgetfulness is an extended reflection on the invasion and its political and historical dimensions. It is also a journey into personal and collective memory. What is the meaning of exile? What is the role of the writer in time of war? What is the relationship of writing (memory) to history (forgetfulness)?" (source)

#q #lit #quotes #typography #mahmoud darwish #palestinian lit #memory for forgetfulness #reading #of war and violence #m #x

[fromdarzaitoleeza]

From Two poems by Mahmoud Darwish

#mahmoud darwish #poetry #poem #words #typography #dark acadamia aesthetic #dark acadamia quotes #Palestine #literature #quote #quotes #english literature #dead poets society #writing #spilled thoughts #light academia #lit #light academic aesthetic #chaotic academia #books #books and libraries #bookworms #book quotes #academia #aesthetic #life #dark academia #poems on tumblr

[metamorphesque]

unfolding into another spring

mahmood darwish, sylvia plath, v.e. schwab, ana mendieta

buy me a coffee

#web weavings #march #parallels #art parallels #spring #literature #quotes #poetry #ana mendieta #classic literature #mahmoud darwish #sylvia plath #the unabridged journals of sylvia plath #the letters of sylvia plath #poems #nature #ve schwab #web weaving

[ivynightshade]

fatima aamer bilal, excerpt from moony moonless sky’s ‘we were put on this earth desperate, hungry and willing.’

[text id: in a sharp set of knives, i looked for a hand to hold. / i could not stop myself from needing to belong somewhere, even if that somewhere was a burial ground.]

#fatima aamer bilal #we were put on this earth desperate hungry and willing #poetry #literature #yearning #poeticstories #book quotations #longing #quotes #self loathing #self deprecation #poetry collection #dark academia #franz kafka #art #bts #sylvia plath #lana del rey #pheobe bridgers #hozier #mitski #web weave #typography #fantasy #taylor swift #parent issues #poem #prose #lit #mahmoud darwish

[baby-girl-aaron-dessner]

Palestinian poet, Mahmoud Darwish

#palestinian art #it’s so strange to continue life while a genocide is happening right before our eyes #free palestine #Mahmoud Darwish #palestinian genocide #think of others #free gaza #palestine #poetry #palestinian poetry #writers and poets #poem #poems #writing #prose

[deviika]

Mahmoud Darwish // Fyodor Dostoevsky

#fyodor dostoevsky #Mahmoud Darwish #quotes #dark academia #light academia #chaotic academia #classic literature #classic academia #poetry #book quotes