<?xml version='1.0' encoding='UTF-8'?><?xml-stylesheet href="http://www.blogger.com/styles/atom.css" type="text/css"?><feed xmlns='http://www.w3.org/2005/Atom' xmlns:openSearch='http://a9.com/-/spec/opensearchrss/1.0/' xmlns:gd="http://schemas.google.com/g/2005"><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3738579.post4897497716116225403..comments</id><updated>2011-07-13T16:13:18.645-04:00</updated><title type='text'>Comments on Silliman&#39;s Blog: </title><link rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#feed' type='application/atom+xml' href='https://ronsilliman.blogspot.com/feeds/comments/default'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='https://www.blogger.com/feeds/3738579/4897497716116225403/comments/default'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='https://ronsilliman.blogspot.com/2008/08/mahmoud-darwish-1942-2008.html'/><link rel="hub" href="http://pubsubhubbub.appspot.com/"/><author><name>Unknown</name><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='16' height='16' src='https://img1.blogblog.com/img/b16-rounded.gif'/></author><generator version='7.00' uri='http://www.blogger.com'>Blogger</generator><openSearch:totalResults>8</openSearch:totalResults><openSearch:startIndex>1</openSearch:startIndex><openSearch:itemsPerPage>25</openSearch:itemsPerPage><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3738579.post-2264572027126907241</id><published>2008-08-11T12:02:00.000-04:00</published><updated>2008-08-11T12:02:00.000-04:00</updated><title type='text'>I was referring to the fact that Darwish attended ...</title><summary type='text'>I was referring to the fact that Darwish attended Lebanese schools.</summary><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='https://www.blogger.com/feeds/3738579/4897497716116225403/comments/default/2264572027126907241'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='https://www.blogger.com/feeds/3738579/4897497716116225403/comments/default/2264572027126907241'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='https://ronsilliman.blogspot.com/2008/08/mahmoud-darwish-1942-2008.html?showComment=1218470520000#c2264572027126907241' title=''/><author><name>Ian Keenan</name><uri>https://www.blogger.com/profile/16596558654735506132</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='16' height='16' src='https://img1.blogblog.com/img/b16-rounded.gif'/></author><thr:in-reply-to xmlns:thr='http://purl.org/syndication/thread/1.0' href='https://ronsilliman.blogspot.com/2008/08/mahmoud-darwish-1942-2008.html' ref='tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3738579.post-4897497716116225403' source='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/3738579/posts/default/4897497716116225403' type='text/html'/><gd:extendedProperty name="blogger.itemClass" value="pid-1591342472"/><gd:extendedProperty name="blogger.displayTime" value="August 11, 2008"/></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3738579.post-6200700856417275855</id><published>2008-08-11T08:46:00.000-04:00</published><updated>2008-08-11T08:46:00.000-04:00</updated><title type='text'>Ian...you know what?  I find that when you are dis...</title><summary type='text'>Ian...you know what?  I find that when you are discussing an area of poetry or the world that you know little of...it is always best to keep silent so that you don&#39;t end up saying foolish things. Darwish wasn&#39;t Lebanese my friend. &lt;BR/&gt;&lt;BR/&gt;Let me put it this way....Darwish is to the anthem of freedom for the Palestinians like Francis Scott Key is to the Star Spangled Banner.&lt;BR/&gt;&lt;BR/&gt;Even if Key</summary><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='https://www.blogger.com/feeds/3738579/4897497716116225403/comments/default/6200700856417275855'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='https://www.blogger.com/feeds/3738579/4897497716116225403/comments/default/6200700856417275855'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='https://ronsilliman.blogspot.com/2008/08/mahmoud-darwish-1942-2008.html?showComment=1218458760000#c6200700856417275855' title=''/><author><name>Meg</name><uri>https://www.blogger.com/profile/11023871171456340729</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='23' height='32' src='http://bp3.blogger.com/_uYCDfb2QGz8/R-T_8p07tdI/AAAAAAAAALk/-vDDGcPoXP0/S220/Cotton+gully.jpg'/></author><thr:in-reply-to xmlns:thr='http://purl.org/syndication/thread/1.0' href='https://ronsilliman.blogspot.com/2008/08/mahmoud-darwish-1942-2008.html' ref='tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3738579.post-4897497716116225403' source='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/3738579/posts/default/4897497716116225403' type='text/html'/><gd:extendedProperty name="blogger.itemClass" value="pid-2000124934"/><gd:extendedProperty name="blogger.displayTime" value="August 11, 2008"/></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3738579.post-4746263041202508121</id><published>2008-08-10T16:12:00.000-04:00</published><updated>2008-08-10T16:12:00.000-04:00</updated><title type='text'>There&#39;s usually a lot of heated phone calls about ...</title><summary type='text'>There&#39;s usually a lot of heated phone calls about stories like this in the US corporate papers.. all the wires and the international press have put out their coverage.  The LA Times has bit with a Muslim staff writer.  Usually all the editors wait to see what the NY Times will do, and the NY Times hasn&#39;t reported it yet.  As for Darwish&#39;s SoQ strains, the Lebanese schools still need some </summary><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='https://www.blogger.com/feeds/3738579/4897497716116225403/comments/default/4746263041202508121'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='https://www.blogger.com/feeds/3738579/4897497716116225403/comments/default/4746263041202508121'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='https://ronsilliman.blogspot.com/2008/08/mahmoud-darwish-1942-2008.html?showComment=1218399120000#c4746263041202508121' title=''/><author><name>Ian Keenan</name><uri>https://www.blogger.com/profile/16596558654735506132</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='16' height='16' src='https://img1.blogblog.com/img/b16-rounded.gif'/></author><thr:in-reply-to xmlns:thr='http://purl.org/syndication/thread/1.0' href='https://ronsilliman.blogspot.com/2008/08/mahmoud-darwish-1942-2008.html' ref='tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3738579.post-4897497716116225403' source='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/3738579/posts/default/4897497716116225403' type='text/html'/><gd:extendedProperty name="blogger.itemClass" value="pid-1591342472"/><gd:extendedProperty name="blogger.displayTime" value="August 10, 2008"/></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3738579.post-2591106998150883506</id><published>2008-08-10T13:58:00.000-04:00</published><updated>2008-08-10T13:58:00.000-04:00</updated><title type='text'>See Daisy Fried&#39;s conversation with Fady Joudah at...</title><summary type='text'>See Daisy Fried&#39;s conversation &lt;BR/&gt;with Fady Joudah at&lt;BR/&gt;poetryfoundation.org/harriet/2008/05/questions_for_fady_joudah.html&lt;BR/&gt;Dr. Joudah translated Mahmoud Darwish&#39;s&lt;BR/&gt;&lt;B&gt;The Butterfly&#39;s Burden&lt;/B&gt;&lt;BR/&gt;into English, and in this conversation&lt;BR/&gt;reveals some facts and opinions about Darwish.</summary><link rel='edit' 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href='https://ronsilliman.blogspot.com/2008/08/mahmoud-darwish-1942-2008.html?showComment=1218380640000#c436274138494134731' title=''/><author><name>Gary Parrish</name><uri>https://www.blogger.com/profile/09446212454796875908</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='29' height='32' src='http://a614.ac-images.myspacecdn.com/images01/8/m_e4aa9fa7812c0f94eb3f12932f507eed.jpg'/></author><thr:in-reply-to xmlns:thr='http://purl.org/syndication/thread/1.0' href='https://ronsilliman.blogspot.com/2008/08/mahmoud-darwish-1942-2008.html' ref='tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3738579.post-4897497716116225403' source='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/3738579/posts/default/4897497716116225403' type='text/html'/><gd:extendedProperty name="blogger.itemClass" value="pid-176615294"/><gd:extendedProperty name="blogger.displayTime" value="August 10, 2008"/></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3738579.post-3399356163178490644</id><published>2008-08-10T10:34:00.000-04:00</published><updated>2008-08-10T10:34:00.000-04:00</updated><title type='text'>See Sherry Chandler&#39;s blog for a poem by Darwishht...</title><summary type='text'>See Sherry Chandler&#39;s blog for a poem by Darwish&lt;BR/&gt;http://sherrychandler.com/2008/08/10/mahmoud-darwish-march-13-1941-august-9-2008/&lt;BR/&gt;&lt;BR/&gt;Rather SoQ, wouldn&#39;t you say?&lt;BR/&gt;Helen Losse</summary><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='https://www.blogger.com/feeds/3738579/4897497716116225403/comments/default/3399356163178490644'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='https://www.blogger.com/feeds/3738579/4897497716116225403/comments/default/3399356163178490644'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='https://ronsilliman.blogspot.com/2008/08/mahmoud-darwish-1942-2008.html?showComment=1218378840000#c3399356163178490644' title=''/><author><name>DeadMule</name><uri>https://www.blogger.com/profile/01209584859435270113</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='16' height='16' src='https://img1.blogblog.com/img/b16-rounded.gif'/></author><thr:in-reply-to xmlns:thr='http://purl.org/syndication/thread/1.0' href='https://ronsilliman.blogspot.com/2008/08/mahmoud-darwish-1942-2008.html' ref='tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3738579.post-4897497716116225403' source='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/3738579/posts/default/4897497716116225403' type='text/html'/><gd:extendedProperty name="blogger.itemClass" value="pid-1345957712"/><gd:extendedProperty name="blogger.displayTime" value="August 10, 2008"/></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3738579.post-1523299182350488915</id><published>2008-08-10T10:12:00.000-04:00</published><updated>2008-08-10T10:12:00.000-04:00</updated><title type='text'>Beirut is built of gold and fatigueOf Andalusia an...</title><summary type='text'>Beirut is built of gold and fatigue&lt;BR/&gt;Of Andalusia and Damascus&lt;BR/&gt;&lt;BR/&gt;Beirut our tent&lt;BR/&gt;Beirut our star&lt;BR/&gt;&lt;BR/&gt;...Beirut the shape of shade...&lt;BR/&gt;She tempts us with a thousand overtures&lt;BR/&gt;And with new alphabets&lt;BR/&gt;&lt;BR/&gt;Beirut our only tent&lt;BR/&gt;Beirut our only star&lt;BR/&gt;&lt;BR/&gt;And from Hell to the Atlantic&lt;BR/&gt;From the Gulf to Hell right left and center&lt;BR/&gt;I saw nothing but a scaffold&lt;</summary><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='https://www.blogger.com/feeds/3738579/4897497716116225403/comments/default/1523299182350488915'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='https://www.blogger.com/feeds/3738579/4897497716116225403/comments/default/1523299182350488915'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='https://ronsilliman.blogspot.com/2008/08/mahmoud-darwish-1942-2008.html?showComment=1218377520000#c1523299182350488915' title=''/><author><name>Meg</name><uri>https://www.blogger.com/profile/11023871171456340729</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='23' height='32' src='http://bp3.blogger.com/_uYCDfb2QGz8/R-T_8p07tdI/AAAAAAAAALk/-vDDGcPoXP0/S220/Cotton+gully.jpg'/></author><thr:in-reply-to xmlns:thr='http://purl.org/syndication/thread/1.0' href='https://ronsilliman.blogspot.com/2008/08/mahmoud-darwish-1942-2008.html' ref='tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3738579.post-4897497716116225403' source='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/3738579/posts/default/4897497716116225403' type='text/html'/><gd:extendedProperty name="blogger.itemClass" value="pid-2000124934"/><gd:extendedProperty name="blogger.displayTime" value="August 10, 2008"/></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3738579.post-4247914241657562253</id><published>2008-08-10T05:38:00.000-04:00</published><updated>2008-08-10T05:38:00.000-04:00</updated><title type='text'>sad news ideed</title><summary type='text'>sad news ideed</summary><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='https://www.blogger.com/feeds/3738579/4897497716116225403/comments/default/4247914241657562253'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='https://www.blogger.com/feeds/3738579/4897497716116225403/comments/default/4247914241657562253'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='https://ronsilliman.blogspot.com/2008/08/mahmoud-darwish-1942-2008.html?showComment=1218361080000#c4247914241657562253' title=''/><author><name>Lars Palm</name><uri>https://www.blogger.com/profile/18014279624033048950</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='16' height='16' src='https://img1.blogblog.com/img/b16-rounded.gif'/></author><thr:in-reply-to xmlns:thr='http://purl.org/syndication/thread/1.0' href='https://ronsilliman.blogspot.com/2008/08/mahmoud-darwish-1942-2008.html' 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