Where is Mahmoud Darwish buried?

The burial place of Mahmoud Darwish

Mahmoud Darwish was buried in the city of Ramallah, in a piece of land near the Ramallah Cultural Palace, and thousands of Palestinians and other dignitaries participated in his funeral under the leadership of President Mahmoud Abbas. It is worth noting that Mahmoud Darwish died on August 2008, XNUMX, in Houston, Texas, after complications from a heart operation.

his life

The Palestinian national poet Mahmoud Darwish was born in 1941 in the city of Al-Bireh in Palestine, to a middle-class Muslim family. In 1970 he joined Moscow University, and in 1972 he settled in Beirut. There he became editor-in-chief of the Palestine Liberation Organization’s monthly magazine, and in 1975 he was appointed director of the Center The group's research, and after the PLO was expelled from Beirut in 1982, Mahmoud Darwish settled in Cyprus, and in 1987 he was appointed to the Executive Committee of the PLO, and in 1988 he wrote the Declaration of Palestinian Independence for an independent state, and in 1993 Darwish resigned from the PLO because of his opposition to the Oslo Accords, In 1996, he settled in the city of Ramallah in the West Bank, where he published Al-Karmel magazine, which published the works of young Arab writers.

his works

Mahmoud Darwish wrote many books of prose, including; Diaries of Ordinary Sorrow in 1973, Memory for Forgetting in 1987, and more than twenty collections of poetry. Since 1981, Darwish has held the position of editor-in-chief of the literary magazine “Al-Carmel.” Darwish’s poetic works are distinguished by their strength stemming from the sincerity of his emotions and originality. And the new, and from classical Arabic literature and Arab-Islamic history, and from Greek and Roman myths, and his works have been translated into more than twenty languages, and Darwish has won many international awards, including the Lotus Prize in 1969, the Lenin Peace Prize in 1983, and the Medal of Intellectual Merit from the King of Morocco Mohammed V in 2000, and the French Medal of Knight of Arts and Letters in 1997.