Roger Hardy

Roger Hardy is a freelance journalist who has specialised for many years in the Middle East.

Letter

Tick-tock

2 February 1989

Jeremy Harding’s West Bank Diary (LRB, 2 February) was so good it seems churlish to point out that the poem he quoted is not by Mahmoud Darwish but by another distinguished Palestinian poet, Samih al-Qasim. It’s short enough to quote in full (in Abdullah al-Udhari’s translation):My city collapsedThe clock was still on the wallOur neighbourhood collapsedThe clock was still on the wallThe street...

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