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Mahmoud Darwish: ‘The invader fears his memories…’

Here are videos of people at Harvard reading Mahmoud Darwish's poems last summer after his death. I love America: one of the readers is  Darryl Li, a handsome Harvard law student of Asian descent, reading first in Arabic then in English Darwish's lovesong to Palestine: "We have on this earth what makes life worth living. The aroma of bread at dawn. A woman's opinion of men… The invader's fear of memories…"

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