1.   I pride myself on being a survivor, much like that Palestinian poet and activist I met in Jordan more than three decades ago.

2.   The words the characters speak are taken from literary texts of the period, by the Palestinian poet Tawfik Zayad and the Zionist writer Haim Azaz.

3.   They include selections of nationalist poetry and biographies of Palestinian poets and writers.

4.   Palestinian poet Mahmoud Darweish said that it was the late political cartoonist Naji Al Ali who pushed Arabs to begin reading their newspapers from the last page.

5.   Palestinian poet, Mahmoud Darwish, will later read a special appeal, addressed from the people of Palestine to all nations throughout the world.

6.   A Palestinian poet convicted of slandering a Kuwaiti newspaper columnist has been deported despite appeals from human rights activists.

7.   For Palestinian poet Mahmoud Darwish, the festival is an opportunity to show how culture has contributed to the establishment of the Palestinian national identity.

8.   Mahmoud Darwish, a Palestinian poet.

9.   Palestinian poet Mahmoud Darwish and Columbia University professor Edward Said, an outspoken advocate for the Palestinian cause, have won awards from the Lannan Foundation.

10.   The person who converted the novel into a play written in verse is Adeeb Nasir, a Palestinian poet who lives in Iraq.