When a writer declares that his first book is his best, that is bad. I progress successively from book to book.
Mahmoud DarwishWe have to understand - not justify - what gives rise to this tragedy. It's not because they're looking for beautiful virgins in heaven, as Orientalists portray it. Palestinian people are in love with life. If we give them hope - a political solution - they'll stop killing themselves.
Mahmoud Darwish