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The Moroccan House of Poetry is awarding its "Al-Arkana World Poetry Award" to the Palestinian poet Mahmoud Darwish this year.<\/o:p><\/span><\/font><\/font><\/span><\/p>\r\n

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Darwish will receive the award at a ceremony and poetry reading in the Moroccan capital, Rabat<\/st1:place><\/st1:city> on 24 October.<\/o:p><\/span><\/font><\/font><\/span><\/p>\r\n

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House of Poetry's Arkana Prize Committee said that the award, named for a tree that grows mainly in the Moroccan south, is given to a poet who "defends the values of diversity, freedom and peace."<\/o:p><\/span><\/font><\/font><\/span><\/p>\r\n

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<\/span><\/span><\/span><\/span>"Darwish's experience includes different cultural periods that are wrapped by a deep knowledge of poetry and its geography, and a vital awareness that poetry is fated to be transformed and renewed which makes it always opened to the future," the committee said.<\/o:p><\/span><\/font><\/font><\/span><\/p>\r\n

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