The Latest Breaking News from Mahmoud Darwish

What do we owe to language in times of unimaginable violence? Palestinian-Texan verse helps show us the way.

Mahmoud Darwish’s poems are ever relevant to the conditions of Palestinians, particularly now in Gaza.

Israeli air raids killed the family of Al Jazeera’s Wael Dahdouh – we continue our coverage of Gaza this week.

When a society experiences oppression and trauma, literature helps its people by giving them a voice and reinforcing their identity. It gives the trauma those people have suffered a universal resonance. So it is for Palestinians, whose literature – particularly that of resistance – plays this role. Indeed, Palestinian writers…

Cafe Yafa continues a rich Palestinian literary culture, decades after the Nakba destroyed the libraries of Palestine.

Beyond the feted international stars, these poets and novelists each find very different ways to write about this contested land