Allan M. Jalon writes about books and culture for publications including the San Francisco Chronicle. PALESTINIAN culture hasn’t traveled easily to this country. Earlier this year, a show by ...

This issue of the magazine features the poem “Here the Birds’ Journey Ends,” by Mahmoud Darwish, who passed away August 9th. The poem was translated, from the Arabic, by Fady Joudah, Darwish’s friend ...

Bloggers around the Arab world mourned the death of Palestinian poet Mahmoud Darwish today. Scores of posts appeared online in Arabic and English even before news of his death was officially confirmed ...

Space to play or pause, M to mute, left and right arrows to seek, up and down arrows for volume. Ramona Koval: Born in Galilee in 1941, Mahmoud Darwish lived as an exile from the 1970s in Moscow and ...

In 1990, Sayed Mahmoud — at the time a fresh graduate of Cairo University’s Faculty of History — was joining a group of friends to attend the inauguration of “Palestinian Week” that was hosted at ...