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In the Edward Said Multicultural Lounge you will also find a poem. The poem is an excerpt from a poem written by Mahmoud Darwish, Palestine\u2019s poet laureate and a good friend of\u00a0 Edward Said. Darwish dedicated this poem to Said to celebrate his life before his death in 2003. Titled \u201cEdward Said: A Contrapuntal Reading,\u201d the excerpt translated in English is provided below.<\/p>\n
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On the wind he walks. And on the wind<\/p>\n
he knows who he is. There\u2019s no ceiling for the wind<\/p>\n
and no house. The wind is a compass<\/p>\n
to the stranger\u2019s north.<\/p>\n
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He says: I am from there, I am from here,<\/p>\n
but I am neither there nor here.<\/p>\n
I have two names that meet and part,<\/p>\n
and I have two languages, I forget<\/p>\n
with which I dream. For writing I have<\/p>\n
an English with obedient vocabulary,<\/p>\n
and I have a language of heaven\u2019s dialogue<\/p>\n
with Jerusalem, it has a silver timbre<\/p>\n
but it doesn\u2019t obey my imagination.<\/p>\n
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\u00a0And Identity? I asked.<\/p>\n
He said: Self-defense\u2026<\/p>\n
Identity is the daughter of birth, but in the end<\/p>\n
she\u2019s what her owner creates, not an inheritance<\/p>\n
of a past. I am the plural. Within my interior<\/p>\n
my renewing exterior resides\u2026yet I<\/p>\n
belong to the victim\u2019s question. Were I not<\/p>\n
from there I would have trained my heart<\/p>\n
to rear the gazelle of metonymy,<\/p>\n
so carry your land wherever you go,<\/p>\n
and be a narcissist if you need to be.<\/p>\n
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I asked: The outside world is an exile<\/p>\n
and the inside world is an exile<\/p>\n
so who are you between the two?<\/p>\n
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