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The Jewish Woman Who Was the Love of Palestine’s Most Famous Poet Died This Week
“Rita is an erotic poem. … Rita in all my poems is a Jewish woman.” – Mahmoud Darwish, in a 1996 interview with Israeli literary critic Helit Yeshurun. On Feb. 24, Tamar Ben-Ami, a Jewish-Israeli woman who inspired some of Mahmoud Darwish’s most famous poems, died at 79. She was an acclaim...