Overview

Mahmoud Darwish, the Palestinian poet and author who won numerous awards for his literary output and was regarded as the Palestinian national poet. In his work, Palestine became a metaphor for the loss of Eden, birth and resurrection, and the anguish of dispossession and exile. He has been described as an incarnation of the traditional political poet in Islam. In some writer's opinion he was Ghandi of Palestine. The managing editor is a well known Arab American scholar, scientist, and writer. In this book you may say that the author continues his line of thought in bringing Arab literature in the process of Ihyaa al Turath al Arabi fil Mahjar (Revival of Arab heritage in Diaspora) project supported by the Arab American Encyclopedia originated by the managing editor, a well known Arab American scholar, poet, and author of more than 250 books, Dr. Yahya resides in Michigan-USA, and has four children and ten grandchildren.