- Maḥmūd Darwīsh (1941 – 2008, Palestine / Israel) – Dhākirat Lil-Nisyān (1987, English trans. Memory for Forgetfulness, 1995). Set in one day in Beirut under siege in 1982, this memoir of a Palestinian in exile is a juxtaposition of dream, reality, poetry, prose, past and present, through which it questions the relationship between memory and history. It describes Darwīsh’s long day and direct circumstances in detail, such as how he makes his morning coffee in a destructed in Beirut with the sound of bombs on the background, while reflecting on the siege of his own homeland: Palestine (reference) (also in M: Memoirs).
Refrences:
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- Muḥammad Nāṣṣir al-Khawālidah. 2008. “Maḥmūd Darwīsh wa Dhākirat Lil-Nisyān.” www.diwanalarab.com, 25 October 2008, https://www.diwanalarab.com/%D9%85%D8%AD%D9%85%D9%88%D8%AF-%D8%AF%D8%B1%D9%88%D9%8A%D8%B4-%D9%88 (last accessed 19 January 2024)