Childhood and Education Mahmoud Darwish was a famous Palestinian poet born in 1941 in the village of Al-Birweh. He suffered from the Nakba in 1948, when his family was displaced and moved to Lebanon. He studied in Lebanese schools, where he began to establish his passion for literature and poetry. At an early age, he wrote his first poems and gained local fame, which made him the focus of attention in the literary arena. Political and literary struggle Mahmoud Darwish faced great challenges due to occupation and exile, but he used his poetry as a means of expressing his identity and resistance. He joined the Palestine Liberation Organization, and wrote poems that became a symbol of struggle and belonging. Continuously, he reshaped the literary and political consciousness of the Palestinian people, and contributed to documenting their experiences and suffering through his words.