Saturday, October 17, 2009

Famous Darwish Poem Inspired By Shlomo Sand

In 1967, the late Mahmoud Darwish (13 March 1941 – 9 August 2008) penned his famous poem, ‘A Soldier Dreaming of White Lilies’. The poem was in fact written about Professor Shlomo Sand, as he describes in the introduction to The Invention of the Jewish People:
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3 comments:

  1. vOctober 18, 2009 at 1:21 AM

    TGIA I poped this up on the mondoweiss site with a link here and  to the poem. 

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  2. thankgodimatheistOctober 18, 2009 at 2:54 AM

    Thanks v..Mondo has a large audience and is followed by people from both opposite sides and all those inbetween.

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  3. DancingOpossumOctober 19, 2009 at 9:32 AM

    It's a gorgeous poem.

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