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(FILES)--Palestinian leader Yasser Arafat (2ndR)) poses with a group of international intellectuals on a fact-finding mission in the Palestinian territories at his office in the West Bank city of Ramallah 25 March 2002.The group includes from L fo R standing: Palestinian poet Mahmoud Darwish, US writer Russell Banks, US film director Oliver Stone, Portuguese Nobel literature laureate Jose Saramago and seated fellow Nobel literature laureate Nigerian dissident Wole Soyinka (R). Darwish, 67, widely considered the greatest living Palestinian poet, died on August 9 2008, in a US hospital following open-heart surgery, hospital officials said. AFP PHOTO/PPO (Photo credit should read STR/AFP/Getty Images)

(FILES)--Palestinian leader Yasser Arafat (2ndR)) poses with a group of international intellectuals on a fact-finding mission in the Palestinian territories at his office in the West Bank city of Ramallah 25 March 2002.The group includes from L fo R standing: Palestinian poet Mahmoud Darwish, US writer Russell Banks, US film director Oliver Stone, Portuguese Nobel literature laureate Jose Saramago and seated fellow Nobel literature laureate Nigerian dissident Wole Soyinka (R). Darwish, 67, widely considered the greatest living Palestinian poet, died on August 9 2008, in a US hospital following open-heart surgery, hospital officials said. AFP PHOTO/PPO (Photo credit should read STR/AFP/Getty Images)
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