Small and animated, with a nimbus of poet-length ... He went on to complain about what he called the “retardation” of contemporary Arabic poetry, which in his view has become a rhetorical ...

Small deeds are great in small men's eyes ... Darwish has been translated more than any other modern Arabic poet into English. Palestinian poet Mahmoud Darwish waves to crowds before a concert ...

A new book of translations is set to bring a classical Arabic poet into the Western imagination – and change perceptions of the Middle East with it. One of literature’s undeniable life lessons ...