MAHMOUD DARWISH (b. 1932) is a Palestinian poet. Professor Emil Nakhleh (Mt. St. Mary's College) considers Darwish to be "the main exponent of the Palestine literature of resistence in the sixties." Leaves of the Olive Tree (Awraq al-Zaytun), Haifa, 1964; End of the Night (Akhir al-Layl), Akka-Israel, 1967, are his two major works of poetry.