Mahmoud Darwish was born on March 13, 1941.

Mahmoud Darwish was born on March 13, 1941.

Mahmoud Darwish died on August 9, 2008 at the age of 67.

Mahmoud Darwish was born on March 13, 1941 and died on August 9, 2008. Mahmoud Darwish would have been 67 years old at the time of death or 74 years old today.

Mahmoud Darwish is from a Palestinian Muslim family. I never got the impression that he is religious. He didn't see himself different from Palestinian or Arab Christians, but he did value his heritage. He also emphasized that as a Palestinian with Palestinian history, he was a Canaanite, a Greek, a Hebrew, a Turk, and an Arab. He was against Christian and Islamic extremism and the extremism of the Zionism that leads to ethnic cleansing. His heritage is Islamic as the last name Darwish indicates, but he was open to other traditions and cultures and a Leftist, socialist.