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My homeland is not a suitcase, and I am no traveller

Mahmoud Darwish

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Mahmoud Darwish
Age: 67 †
Born: 1941
Born: January 1
Died: 2008
Died: January 1
Author
Poet
Writer
Al-Birweh
M. Darwish
Mahmoud Darwish
Suitcase
Suitcases
Traveller
Homeland

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