A group of young Palestinians have been engaged in this project at Lajee Center: Radio Lajee recording the poem “Those Who Pass Between Fleeting Words” written by the famous Palestinian poet Mahmoud Darwish. Darwish wrote this poem in 1988 during the first intifada and the direct and uncompromising words caused a great stir in Israel. Israel’s then Prime Minister, Yitzhak Shamir, quoted the poem in the Israeli Knesset to “prove” that the PLO posed a threat to existence of the Zionist state. In response, Darwish said that he found it “difficult to believe that the most militarily powerful country in the Middle East is threatened by a poem”.

Story By : Saeed Dajneeh, Ala’a Dajneeh, Yasmin Alazraq, Miras Alazzeh, Isra’ Abusrour, Fatima Salah, Mariam Abu Aisha, Mahmoud Albarmil, Mohammad Alazza, Nanna Bak, Marie Lund Nielsen.

Photo credit : Lajee center

Music by : Le Trio Joubran