Senior school Rector Peset hosts a poetry reading today in homage of the Palestinian writer Mahmud Darwix. The event will begin at 19:00 at the Sala de la Muralla ( Forn de Sant Nicolau Street, 4). Luz Gomez, Arabist and translator of Darwix, will participate.
Mahmud Darwix was considered to be the national Palestinian poet and one of the most celebrated contemporary Arabic literate, born near Acre in March 13 1941 and died in Huston (USA) in 9 August 2008. Between 1961 and 1970, he was arrested in several occasions by the Israelite authorities as a consequence of his writings and political activity against the occupation of Palestine. Finally, he left the country to go to Moscow, from where he went to Cairo first and then to Beirut. There he joined to Palestine Liberation Organization (PLO), working in the investigating and publishing sectors.
In 2002, during the Israelite harassment in the city of Rama-la Darwish received the visit from a delegation of the International Parliament of Writers, presided by Russell bakns and made of, among other, by the Nobel Prizes Jose Saramago and Wole Soyinka. His testimony as a lucid victim of the current conflicts has been collected by Jean-Luc Godard in the film Notre Musique (2004).
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