MAHMOUD DARWISH is the Palestinian poet laureate.

马哈茂德·达尔·维什是巴勒斯坦的桂冠诗人。

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His comments follow reports that a judge in Lebanon has sent a formal charge against Mr Khalife to the country's senior prosecutor for setting to music a poem by the Palestinian poet, Mahmoud Darwish based on a Koranic verse.

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Mahmoud Darwish, widely regarded as the Palestinians' national poet, who expressed their sense of loss and defiance over the past four decades, died in the United States and was given a grand burial in Ramallah, capital of the Israeli-occupied West Bank.

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