Mahmoud Darwich | Unisex Organic Oversized T-shirt

Material: 100% organic combed ring-spun cotton

Fabric weight: 200 g/m²

Fit: loose, with dropped shoulders

Set-in sleeves

1 × 1 ribbed neckline

Self-fabric neck tape at the inside back

The fabric of this product is certified for its organic cotton content.

In this artwork by Marie-Claire Laffaire, Mahmoud Darwich appears in a window opening onto the universe, with a celestial vault behind him. The portrait gives the poet a horizon that extends beyond the frame.

The words “We will be a people, if we so choose” accompany the drawing. For United Souls, they connect memory with the will to come together as a people and the possibility of a shared future.

An artwork that brings Palestinian poetry into public spaces and affirms its universal resonance, more relevant than ever.

THE VOICE OF RESISTANCE AND PEACE
MAHMOUD DARWICH (1941–2008) – PALESTINE

A Palestinian writer born in 1941 in Al-Birwa, Mahmoud Darwich was one of the greatest poets of the twentieth century. He died in a Houston hospital in 2008. His rich life and work were deeply intertwined with the history of Palestinian resistance. Expelled in 1948 to a refugee camp in southern Lebanon, he later joined the Communist Party and began publishing poems and articles that led to five periods of imprisonment and house arrest. In 1970, he left Palestine. His poetry grew richer through successive periods of exile in Moscow, Cairo, Beirut, Tunis and Paris.

Elected to the Executive Committee of the Palestine Liberation Organization (PLO), he resigned following the Oslo Accords. In 1995, he returned to the region, dividing his time between Amman and Ramallah while continuing his poetic work. In collections such as La Palestine pour métaphore (1997) and La terre nous est étroite (2000), his poems, both intimate and politically engaged, give universal resonance to the particular questions of identity faced by Palestinian refugees.