Mahmoud Darwish

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<p></p><p><i>Mahmoud Darwish: Palestine¿s Poet and the Other as the Beloved </i>focuses on Palestinian national poet Mahmoud Darwish (1941¿2008), whose poetry has helped to shape Palestinian identity and foster Palestinian culture through many decades of the Israeli-Palestinian conflict. Dalya Cohen-Mor explores the poet¿s romantic relationship with "Rita," an Israeli Jewish woman whom he had met in Haifa in his early twenties and to whom he had dedicated a series of love poems and prose passages, among them the iconic poem "Rita and the Gun." Interwoven with biographical details and diverse documentary materials, this exploration reveals a fascinating facet in the poet¿s personality, his self-definition, and his attitude toward the Israeli other. Comprising a close reading of Darwish¿s love poems, coupled with many examples of novels and short stories from both Arabic and Hebrew fiction that deal with Arab-Jewish love stories, this book delves into the complexity of Arab-Jewish relations and shows how romance can blossom across ethno-religious lines and how politics all too often destroys it. </p> <p></p>

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<div><p></p><p><b>Dalya Cohen-Mor</b> is a Middle East scholar and an award-winning author. She earned her Ph.D. from Georgetown University. Her most recent publications include <i>Mothers and Daughters in Arab Women¿s Literature: The Family Frontier</i> (2011), <i>Fathers and Sons in the Arab Middle East</i> (Palgrave, 2013), and <i>Cultural Journeys into the Arab World: A Literary Antholog</i>y (2018).</p> <p></p></div>

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