Mahmoud Darwish: literature and the politics of Palestinian identity - 4

Mahmoud Darwish is the poet laureate of the Palestinian national struggle.

His poems resonate across the entire Arab world and, more than any other single figure perhaps since the death of Yasser Arafat, he represents a unifying figurehead for Palestinian national aspirations.

In this biography, Muna Abu Eid examines the poet's intellectual status on two fronts - both national and public - and offers a critical assessment of Darwish's national and political life.