الأحد، 22 أغسطس 2010

The Unacknowledged Legislators of Mankind

DEBORAH SONTAG

March 19, 2000

Israel's education minister created a political storm, culminating in a no-confidence vote in the government, when he decided to include a nationalist Palestinian poet's work in the high school literature curriculum.

A fierce debate in Parliament ensued over whether the poems of Mahmoud Darwish were too anti-Israel or whether Israeli students should broaden their horizons by experiencing ''the other.''

The government survived. Mr. Darwish's verse got quite an airing. And the Palestinian Culture Minister decided to introduce Israeli poets to Palestinian students. So there

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