Khaled al-Masri reads Mahmoud Darwish's "Earth Presses Against Us" in Arabic at Harvard University, September 18, 2008. Sabrina Peric read the English translation. The event, a celebration of Darwish's life and work forty deaths after his death, was co-sponsored by the GSAS Alliance for Justice in the Middle East, the Harvard Center for Middle Eastern Studies, and Justice for Palestine at Harvard Law School.
What an ugly reading for such a beautiful poem!! Outrageous!! He can hardly speak English, this Khalid must either be doing this for his own glory or hes a Jordanian...NO POETRY for you KhalidEspecially Mahmoud Darwish!!! You sullied the poem.
Darwishfan 3 years ago