El-Zein, Amira

Mahmoud Darwish (1941 - 2008) was the author of over thirty books of poems, including "Memory for Forgetfulness: August, Beirut, 1982 "(California, 1995), "The Adam of Two Edens" (2001), and "Psalms" (1994). He received the 2001 Prize for Cultural Freedom from the Lannan Foundation. Munir Akash is a founding editor of "Jusoor, The Arab American Journal of Cultural Exchange", and coeditor of "The Adam of Two Edens" (2001) and "Post Gibran: Anthropology of New Arab American Writing" (2000). Carolyn Forche is Professor of English at George Mason University and author of "The Angel of History" (19...