Prayer & Memorial Service for Palestinian Poet Mahmoud Darwish

In Memoriam...

Palestinian Poet Mahmoud Darwish

1941 -2008

Mahmoud Darwish, the world's most recognized Palestinian poet, whose prose gave voice to the Palestinian experience of exile and occupation, died Saturday in Houston, Texas, following an open heart surgery at a Houston hospital. He was 67.

The Palestinian poet was born in the village of Birwah, Galilee, in 1941. Following the 1948 war, the Israelis demolished the village and the family became refugees. As result of this experience, exile and dispossession became major themes of his writing.

Darwish has received several awards for his work, including the 1969 Lotus Prize by the Union of Afro-Asian Writers, the Lenin Peace Prize in 1983, and France's Knighthood of Arts and Belles Lettres in 1997. Many of his heroic poems have become popular as songs. His work has been translated into more than 20 languages

Prayer

A prayer service will be held on Sunday, August 10, 2008 at 1:30 p.m. at

ISGH Main Center - East Side
3110 Eastside Street
Houston, Texas 77098
713-524-6615
http://www.isgh.org/

Darwish will be flown to his beloved Palestine where he will be buried.

Please join us for a Memorial Service & Tribute
organized by the Palestinian American Community in Houston
Sunday, August 10, 2008 at 7:30 p.m. at

Arab American Cultural & Community Center
10555 Stancliff Road
Houston, TX 77099
For more information, call Kamal Khalil at 281-827-5934.

May God bless his soul and give comfort and patience to his family.

related postings:

http://windowintopalestine.blogspot.com/2008/08/palestinian-poet-darwish

http://palestinevideoblog.blogspot.com/2008/08/my-mother-marcel-khalife-written-by.html

http://windowintopalestine.blogspot.com/2008/08/identity-card-poem-by-mahmoud-darwish.html

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