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Literary portraits of contemporary Palestine  The painful condition of Palestine has been reflected in the pen of many writers. See Mahmud Darwish 's poem:   " My country is far away,   Where the birds fly   Never come back ."  These lines speak of the destitute condition of the Palestinian people. The horrors of the ongoing war across Gaza are revealed in Suzanne Abulhawa 's novel ' Desert Sands '. He wrote:  " The night shakes with the sound of bombs. Children cry. Mothers clutch their chests ."   Emile Habibi 's novel ' The Pessimist ' depicts the tragedy of Palestine through humor. Ghassan Kanafani's story ' Men in the Sun ' shows a sad picture of the refugee camp.    Radwa Ashur 's ' The Granada Trilogy ' connects history with the present. Murid Barghouti 's autobiography ' I So Ramallah ' gives a real picture of life in the occupied territories.  Liana Badr writes in her novel 'The Eye,

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