A group of young Palestinians have been engaged in this project at Lajee Center: Radio Lajee recording the poem ldquo;Those Who Pass Between Fleeting Wordsrdquo; 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. Israelrsquo;s then Prime Minister, Yitzhak Shamir, quoted the poem in the Israeli Knesset to ldquo;proverdquo; that the PLO posed a threat to existence of the Zionist state. In response, Darwish said that he found it ldquo;difficult to believe that the most militarily powerful country in the Middle East is threatened by a poemrdquo;.

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