Mahmud Darwish, one of the leading Palestinian poets of the 20th century, alongside Nazim Hikmet and Faiz Ahmed Faiz, wrote a remarkable heart-wrenching poem. A poem that expressed pain, sorrow and grief of those exiled in their own country that not only did it depicted the plight of the people of Palestine but expressed the agonizing suffering of the entire Global South turned into slaves in their countries under the yoke of metropolitan capital— sometimes called imperialism. “I don’t know who sold our homeland” Mahmud writes, “but I saw who paid the price”. Trying to be humble, Mahmud Dervish, pretended...
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