"Dalya Cohen-Mor's Mahmoud Darwish: Palestine's Poet and the Other as the Beloved is a fascinating book that explores the impossible love between the Palestinian national poet, Mahmoud Darwish and Tamar Ben-Ami, a Jewish girl within the obstacle-laden context of Israeli-Palestinian conflict. I do think that the book is a crucial contribution to the fields of sociology, anthropology, citizenship, nationality, acculturation and ethno-religious, cultural studies." (Bilal Tawfiq Hamamra, Journal of Modern Jewish Studies, December 12, 2019)
Chapter 1 The Poet’s Public Persona: A Lover from Palestine.- Chapter 2 Dangerous Liaisons: Arab-Jewish Romantic Relationships.- Chapter 3 Self-Defining Memories: When Mahmoud met "Rita".- Chapter 4 The Rita Poems and Prose Passages.- Chapter 5 Unbeliever in the Impossible.
Dalya Cohen-Mor is a Middle East scholar and an award-winning author. She earned her Ph.D. from Georgetown University. Her most recent publications include Mothers and Daughters in Arab Women’s Literature: The Family Frontier (2011), Fathers and Sons in the Arab Middle East (Palgrave, 2013), and Cultural Journeys into the Arab World: A Literary Anthology (2018).