In Describing Our Condition

“In Describing Our Condition” is the title of a book by Mahmoud Darwish published in 1987. It includes articles, thoughts, and poems that the writer had published in Arab and Lebanese periodicals and newspapers, including (Palestinian Affairs), (Al-Karmel), (Al-Youm Al-Sabea), (Al-Safir), (Al-Watan Al-Arabi, and others. In its general form, it deals with the Palestinian condition or the Palestinian tragedy, which is what the Palestinian person moves with from one siege to another, from one exile to another, and to alienation within the borders of the homeland. It is a true expression of pain. Does pain need a definition? That is what the material of this book provides, which does not define pain except as an introduction.
In the first reading of the text “In Describing Our Condition”, it can be said that Darwish presented a description of the Palestinian condition outside the borders of the motherland, specifically in Lebanon during the civil war, because the Palestinian Lebanese residing in one fragment, in one paradise that is the only light, do not dance for a victory that is glorified by a comprehensive defeat, because they do not establish a new ghetto that makes their alienation from others a celebration of identity and a celebration In the basement…. The text here establishes its spatiotemporal structure on the tangible visible reality, heading towards the inner depth, as the images of the Palestinian-Lebanese appear in it) as if they share the pain in one fragment, and this is an embodiment of the act of imagination that represents the main characteristic required in the poet, which means imagination, to draw for us an imaginary space based on illogicality that people live, according to an artistic and formative method based on the transformation in the nature of the Doric discourse from its linguistically embodied presence to a visual discourse based on the action of the sense of sight in the recipient. “In describing our condition, I say: My homeland is a bag or a gun. In describing our condition, I say: My homeland is a cloud or a fragment…..

Among the titles of the book, we mention: “Black Terrorism”, This Theater Will Burn”, “O Oblivion, You Are Worthy of All Names”, “Before the Visit and After Who Am I and Who Is the Story”, “In Describing Our Condition…” and other titles