Mawwaal by Reem Kelani published on 2019-02-15T17:24:06Z I wrote the music to this poem in 1992 for a BBC Everyman documentary called 'See no Evil' on the tenth anniversary of the massacre in the refugee camps of Sabra & Shatila in Beirut. The Palestinian poet Mahmoud Darwish (born in 1942 in the now depopulated village of Birweh, near Acre) wrote the original poem in 1967 to convey the Palestinian sense of loss at the time. Darwish is now internationally recognised as one of the greatest living Arab poets. In this poem, Darwish borrows the chorus line from Palestinian folklore, thus juxtaposing colloquial Palestinian with the classical Arabic of the main verses. Each time the chorus is performed on this rendition, it is done with a different variation. This is reflected in the English subtitle of this song. Reem Kelani Genre World