Houston Chronicle · Houston, Texas · 10 August 2008
CP-2008-006
1941 — Mahmoud Darwish — 2008
Transcribed from the clipping
“‘FELT THE PULSE OF PALESTINE’: Palestinian poet and journalist Mahmoud Darwish, shown on stage last July in Israel, died Saturday after open heart surgery at Memorial Hermann-Texas Medical Center.”
Photograph caption
“‘FELT THE PULSE OF PALESTINE’: Palestinian poet and journalist Mahmoud Darwish, shown on stage last July in Israel, died Saturday after open heart surgery at Memorial Hermann-Texas Medical Center.” · Gil Cohen Magen / AFP / Getty Images
Context added by this archive
A display page rather than a story: his dates set as a rule across the top, a photograph of him with both hands raised, and a caption. He died about four miles from this newsroom, which is the only reason a Houston paper gave a Palestinian poet the full width of a page.
Cite this item
"1941 — Mahmoud Darwish — 2008," Houston Chronicle, 10 August 2008. Covering Palestine archive, CP-2008-006. https://coveringpalestine.org/archive/cp-2008-006
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