Newsgroup: it.politica.internazionale
Titolo: Palestinian poet Mahmoud Darwish dies after heart surgery

http://www.haaretz.com/hasen/spages/1009904.html
http://www.mahmouddarwish.com/english/introduction.htm
http://www.dhfaf.com/poetry.php?name=Poetry&op=lsq&diwid=17
http://www.ibs.it/code/9788888983141/darwish-mahmud/oltre-ultimo-cielo.html
http://www.ibs.it/code/9788888983349/darwish-mahmud/murale-testo-arabo.html

 
http://www.mahmouddarwish.com/english/introduction.htmhttp://www.dhfaf.com/poetry.php?name=Poetry&op=lsq&diwid=17http://www.ibs.it/code/9788888983141/darwish-mahmud/oltre-ultimo-ciel...http://www.ibs.it/code/9788888983349/darwish-mahmud/murale-testo-arab.
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Record!
I am an Arab
And my identity card is number fifty thousand
I have eight children
And the nineth is coming after a summer
Will you be angry?
Record!
I am an Arab
Employed with fellow workers at a quarry
I have eight children
I get them bread
Garments and books
from the rocks..
I do not supplicate charity at your doors
Nor do I belittle myself at the footsteps of your chamber
So will you be angry?
Record!
I am an Arab
I have a name without a title
Patient in a country
Where people are enraged
My roots
Were entrenched before the birth of time
And before the opening of the eras
Before the pines, and the olive trees
And before the grass grew
My father.. descends from the family of the plow
Not from a privileged class
And my grandfather..was a farmer
Neither well-bred, nor well-born!
Teaches me the pride of the sun
Before teaching me how to read
And my house is like a watchman's hut
Made of branches and cane
Are you satisfied with my status?
I have a name without a title!
Record!
I am an Arab
You have stolen the orchards of my ancestors
And the land which I cultivated
Along with my children
And you left nothing for us
Except for these rocks..
So will the State take them
As it has been said?!
Therefore!
Record on the top of the first page:
I do not hate poeple
Nor do I encroach
But if I become hungry
The usurper's flesh will be my food
Beware..
Beware..
Of my hunger
And my anger!
by Mahmoud Darwish
1964

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http://www.mahmouddarwish.com/english/introduction.htmhttp://www.dhfa....
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PS:
http://angryarab.blogspot.com/2008/08/look-at-this-obituary-of-darwish-on-cnn.html
Look at this obituary of Darwish on CNN.
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Secondly, notice that one of the most important element of his life is
omitted from this obituary: that this man--this poet--was put under
house arrest by the Israeli military occupation for close to a decade
and only because he wrote poetry that offended Israeli occupiers of
Palestine. Just think about that. This is why the question should
always be: not why would anybody support Israel, but why would any
humane person not to be opposed to the very existence of such a state.
This is a state that puts a poet who never carried a gun under house
arrest. A poet. (By the way, you may search the word Darwish to locate
many translations of Darwish's poetry that I had previously posted).
(thanks Nabeel)

 And my anger!
Ma come?  Anger??? Ma lui "do not hate people"!!! :)
*LOL*
Ma tanto alla fine ci sono i *COGLIONI* a'la Torrieri che credono pure
che sia una poesia sensata e rispondente alla verita' :)
-Stefano

 arrest.
Neppure quelli che hanno devastato Genova durante il G8 avevano portato
pistole con
se.  Ma questo non gli ha impedito di devastare la citta' e di finire,
pochi purtroppo, in galera.
Ma questo un *COGLIONE* come Torrieri e un *COGLIONE* come l'autore di
angryarab non arrivano a capirolo :)
Non per niente veniva arrestato .... PER IL SUO ATTIVISMO POLITICO, che
non aveva un ca**o a che vedere con il suo essere poeta.
-Stefano