{"id":12905,"date":"2015-02-22T11:04:59","date_gmt":"2015-02-22T15:04:59","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/pierrejoris.com\/blog\/?p=12905"},"modified":"2015-02-22T11:10:47","modified_gmt":"2015-02-22T15:10:47","slug":"a-visit-to-mahmoud-darwishs-grave","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/pierrejoris.com\/blog\/a-visit-to-mahmoud-darwishs-grave\/","title":{"rendered":"A Visit to Mahmoud Darwish’s Grave"},"content":{"rendered":"

\"IMG_2018<\/a>On a recent trip to Ramallah, we went to pay homage at Mahmood Darwish’s grave. \u00a0It is no doubt\u00a0the most amazing poet\u2019s grave (plus museum) I\u2019ve visited\u00a0\u2014 fascinating to see the existence of Palestine defined & buttressed by a poet\u2019s tomb. Some fifty young high school girls were visiting at the same time \u2014 cheerful, chattering, awe-struck yet playful. The museum was breathtaking \u2014 from the recreation of Darwish’s writing room, to his collection of fountain-pens (we share a liking for Pelikan & Montblanc), from his coffee maker (reread the early pages of his Memory for Forgetfulness<\/em>) to his compact radio (it strangely turns out I have\u00a0the same one \u2014 short-wave time & space machine for travelers & exilees to access far-away countries or just the home country at night). And the final, saddest memento mori<\/em>: the boarding pass for his last flight to Houston where he would die in hospital. All the while his voice\u00a0spoke quietly from the corner where videos of his readings where playing. Here some of the photos Nicole & I took:<\/p>\n

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On a recent trip to Ramallah, we went to pay homage at Mahmood Darwish’s grave. \u00a0It is no doubt\u00a0the most amazing poet\u2019s grave (plus museum) I\u2019ve visited\u00a0\u2014 fascinating to see the existence of Palestine...<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[11,79,91],"tags":[500,1634],"class_list":["post-12905","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-arab-culture","category-palestine","category-poetry","tag-mahmoud-darwish","tag-ramallah"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/pierrejoris.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12905","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/pierrejoris.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/pierrejoris.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pierrejoris.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pierrejoris.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=12905"}],"version-history":[{"count":9,"href":"https:\/\/pierrejoris.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12905\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":12932,"href":"https:\/\/pierrejoris.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12905\/revisions\/12932"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/pierrejoris.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=12905"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pierrejoris.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=12905"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pierrejoris.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=12905"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}