1 Views on a new Near East Darwish and the need for a new poetry of resistance for the Arab Spring NearEastQuarterly · Wednesday, June 15th, 2011 By Hala Nassar Hala Khamis Nassar is an associate professor of humanities at Bard College and the Dean of the Bard/al-Quds partnership. She taught at Berkeley, Columbia and Yale universities where she was an assistant professor. Nassar works on Palestinian cultural productions, poetry, and literature. She is the co-editor of Mahmoud Darwish; Exile’s Poet (2007). Her articles on Palestinian theatre appeared in Theater Journal and Theater Review, among many others and her book on Palestinian theatre is forthcoming from Interlink Books. On May 15, the Palestinians commemorated 63 years of al-Nakba, marking the loss of their lands, the dispersal into neighbouring Arab countries and the creation of refugee camps, which led to a rupture of Palestinian society. Since 1948, the Palestinian-Israeli conflict has dominated world news, and since the 1960s the word ‘homeland’ was reflected upon by the late poet late Mahmoud Darwish. Currently, the Arab world from the Atlantic ocean to the Arabian Gulf is witnessing non-violent peaceful revolutions, demonstrations, and military confrontations, thus marking, according to media outlets, the New Arab awakening, the Arab Spring, the New Arab Nahda, and of course the Arab Anger. Copyright Near East Quarterly - 1 / 7 - 25.09.2013