The Palestinian poet Mahmoud Darwish recites one of his poems during a poetry evening in Jarash, north of Amman, Jordan, late in the evening of July 22, 2004. (Credit: Khalil Mazraawi/AFP)
Palestinian academic Raef Zreik specializes in political philosophy and philosophy of law. His research focuses on ethics and politics, as well as citizenship, identity, Zionism, and the Palestinian question. A principal researcher at the Van Leer Institute in Jerusalem, he is also the author of Kant’s Struggle for Autonomy: On the Structure of Practical Reason (Lexington Books, 2023).On the occasion of Mahmoud Darwish Poetry Day, an international tribute organized by the Centre Pompidou and the Arab World Institute and held from Sept. 25 to 27, 2026, he examined how Mahmoud Darwish inscribed the Palestinian tragedy in defeated peoples' shared memory and made poetry a homeland capable of resisting erasure and oblivion.Mahmoud Darwish was barely 30 when he published his sixth collection, I Love You, or I Do Not Love You, an...
Palestinian academic Raef Zreik specializes in political philosophy and philosophy of law. His research focuses on ethics and politics, as well as citizenship, identity, Zionism, and the Palestinian question. A principal researcher at the Van Leer Institute in Jerusalem, he is also the author of Kant’s Struggle for Autonomy: On the Structure of Practical Reason (Lexington Books, 2023).On the occasion of Mahmoud Darwish Poetry Day, an international tribute organized by the Centre Pompidou and the Arab World Institute and held from Sept. 25 to 27, 2026, he examined how Mahmoud Darwish inscribed the Palestinian tragedy in defeated peoples' shared memory and made poetry a homeland capable of resisting erasure and oblivion.Mahmoud Darwish was barely 30 when he published his sixth collection, I Love You, or I Do Not Love You, an...
