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The Mahmoud Darwish Foundation was established on 4 October 2008 as a Palestinian non-profit foundation that "seeks to safeguard Mahmoud Darwish's cultural, literary and intellectual legacy." [66] The foundation administers the annual Mahmoud Darwish Award for Creativity granted to intellectuals from Palestine and elsewhere. [67]
Darwish Pasha, also spelled Dervish Pasha, was the Ottoman beylerbey (governor-general) of Damascus Eyalet from 1571 to 1574. [1] In 1574 he constructed an Islamic building complex consisting of a mosque, madrasa, mausoleum, and a fountain, which came to be called the Darwishiyya Madrasa after him. [ 2 ]
John of Damascus on Islam: The "Heresy of the Ishmaelites.". BRILL. ISBN 978-90-04-03495-2. Sicker, Martin (2000). The Islamic world in ascendancy: from the Arab conquests to the siege of Vienna. Greenwood Publishing Group. ISBN 978-0-275-96892-2. Gibbon, Edward (2008). The History of the Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire, Volume 5.
Al Karmel was established by Mahmoud Darwish in Beirut, Lebanon, in 1981. [1] Darwish edited the magazine until his death. [1] [2] Its publisher was Al Karmel Cultural Foundation. [1] Elias Khoury was the editor of the magazine between 1981 and 1982. [3]
DOHA (Reuters) -The ouster of Syrian President Bashar al-Assad, after rebel forces swept into Damascus this weekend, shattered Iran's network of influence in the Middle East but Israel, the United ...
Mahmoud Charr (born 1984), German professional boxer; Mahmoud Darwish (1941–2008), Palestinian poet; Mahmoud Dahoud (born 1996), German professional footballer; Mahmoud Dowlatabadi (born 1940), Iranian writer and actor; Mahmoud Etemadzadeh (1915–2006), Iranian writer and literary translator; Mahmoud Fakhry Pasha (1884–1955), Egyptian ...
Rana Kabbani (Arabic: رنا قباني; born 1958) is a British Syrian cultural historian, writer and broadcaster who lives in London.Most famous for her works Imperial Fictions: Europe's Myths of the Orient (1994) and Letter to Christendom (1989), she has also edited and translated works in Arabic and English. [1]
Two former high-ranking Syrian intelligence officials have been charged with war crimes for allegedly torturing Americans and other civilians who were deemed enemies by the Syrian government and ...