TITLE: SIX FACES, ONE VOICE
‘Who am I to say to you what I say to you?’
A question echoed on many stages.
He was the exiled, yet a homeland lived in every word.
A witness to loss, and a weaver of hope.
A revolutionary and the keeper of fragile truths.
A citizen of nowhere, and the voice of an entire people.
A romantic, a philosopher, a lyricist of resistance.
He resisted not only what was imposed on him, but even what he became.
As a poet, he questioned poetry.
As a symbol, he rejected symbolism.
He was the ‘other’ to every self.
This exhibition does not attempt to present Mahmoud Darwish in a single story.
His life — and his works — refuse to be contained by one frame.
Instead, it turns to the metaphor of the die: six faces, six selves, six answers to a single question: ‘Who am I?’.
The Son from Al Birwa, bearing its spirit in his poetry.
The Poet who made language his own homeland.
The Exiled who turned absence into a homeland that dwells in the heart.
The Unlucky Lover whom love passed by, denying him the grace of staying.
The Activist who shaped resistance from syntax.
The Absent Presence who became ever more present in his absence.
Each gallery reveals a different facet of Mahmoud Darwish.
Step into his world and discover a life that, like his poetry, invites endless readings — each offering a new light and a deeper truth.