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Person · Poet
1941–2008
Born in al-Birwa, near Acre, on 13 March 1941. During the Nakba he and some of his family took refuge in Lebanon; returning secretly in 1949 with his grandfather, he found the village razed. After his first collection, Birds without Wings (1960), he published twenty-five collections of poetry and eleven prose works, translated into more than twenty languages. He drafted the Declaration of Independence adopted in Algiers in 1988 and was elected to the PLO Executive Committee, from which he resigned in 1993 after the Oslo Accords. He died in Houston on 9 August 2008 and is buried in Ramallah.
An introductory profile. The source material below provides the fuller record.
إعلان الاستقلال الفلسطيني
On 15 November 1988, at the end of the Palestine National Council’s nineteenth session in Algiers, the PLO declared “the State of Palestine in our land of Palestine, with Jerusalem as its capital”, and accepted UN Security Council resolutions 242 and 338 as the basis for an international peace conference.
Drafted the Declaration
Attributed to Institute for Palestine Studies (biography by Maher Charif)
article · PalQuest · Institute for Palestine Studies
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PersonMahmoud Darwish is connected to PlaceAl-Birwa
Role: Born here in 1941; after 1948 the village was razed
Attributed to Institute for Palestine Studies (biography by Maher Charif).
PalQuest · Institute for Palestine Studies · supports · section: The opening paragraphs: his birth in al-Birwa and the village razed
Evidence version:palquest-darwish-biography:v1References show the basis of this connection; their count is not a measure of independent corroboration.
PersonMahmoud Darwish was born in PlaceAl-Birwa
Role: Born here: 13 March 1941, al-Birwa
Attributed to Institute for Palestine Studies (Interactive Encyclopedia of the Palestine Question, biography).
PalQuest · Institute for Palestine Studies · supports · section: The biography’s header: born 13 March 1941, al-Birwa
Evidence version:palquest-darwish-biography:v1References show the basis of this connection; their count is not a measure of independent corroboration.
PersonMahmoud Darwish participated in EventThe Palestinian Declaration of Independence
Role: Drafted the Declaration
Attributed to Institute for Palestine Studies (biography by Maher Charif).
PalQuest · Institute for Palestine Studies · supports · section: The paragraph on his election to the PLO Executive Committee “after having drafted the Declaration of Independence”
Evidence version:palquest-darwish-biography:v1References show the basis of this connection; their count is not a measure of independent corroboration.