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Poems of Mahmoud Darwish and Canadian Policy on Palestine with Hanna Kawas
Date: April 1st, 2006
Running Time: 00:57:04
Location: Hamilton, Ontario
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Poems of Mahmoud Darwish
Mahmoud Darwish is one of the poetic pillars of the Arab world, born in Al-Birweh, a quaint village in the Galilee, Palestine. Amid the mass deportation of Palestinians from their cities and lands, massacres of civilians, and the razing to the ground of hundreds of Palestinian villages, he and his family fled to Lebanon in 1948. Returning “illegally” to their country the following year, they were subjected to military rule and emergency regulations that the newly founded state of Israel established over expropriated Palestinian land. They were given the status of “present-absent alien,” a status that marked the poet from that point onwards. Darwish is the recipient of many international literary awards. In 2001, he won the Lannan prize for cultural freedom.He currently lives in Ramallah.
Identity Card read by Ibtissam & Jamila Ghaddar
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My Mother read by Khawla & Mariam Idrahim
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Canadian Policy on Palestine with Hanna Kawas
Hanna Kawas is a Palestinian activist who was born in Bethlehem, Palestine. A Canadian citizen since 1977, he has been without a Canadian passport since 1997 because the Canadian government refuses to recognize his birthplace as Palestine on his Canadian passport. Hanna is the Chairperson of the Canada Palestine Association, the host of Voice of Palestine on CFRO, and the treasurer of the Palestine Community Centre in Vancouver, British Columbia. Introduction by Julia Williams.
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Palestine Lives! is hosted annually by McMaster SPHR - a non-profit, student-based organization that advocates on a strong social justice platform to uphold the rights of the Palestinian people in the face of human rights violations and all forms of racism, discrimination, misinformation and misrepresentation.
Produced by Praxis Media Productions and McMaster SPHR
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Mahmoud Darwish’s website
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Voice of Palestine radio on CFRO
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Canada Palestine Association, Vancouver
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SPHR’s Website
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