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"Mahmoud Darwish was the Palestinian national poet. One of the greatest poets of the last half-century, his work evokes the loss of his homeland, suffused with the pain of dispossession and exile. But his poems, too, display a brilliant acuity, a passion for and openness to the world and, above all, a deep and abiding humanity. Here, his friends Rema Hammami and John Berger present a beautiful new translation of two of Darwish's later works, his...