When Mahmoud Darwish passed away in August four years ago, three days of mourning were declared in the West Bank and Gaza. The whole Arab world mourned the loss of the man who was the most articulate voice of Palestine for more than four decades. (...)
In Jabra Ibrahim Jabra's largely escapist novel “The Ship,” written a few years after the Arab defeat of 1967, an infuriated refugee exclaims: “We spoke the truth till our throats grew hoarse, and we ended up as refugees in tents.”
On Friday, as (...)
