In 1964 his defiant poem, "Write Down, I Am an Arab", landed him in prison and turned him into an icon of the Arab world. At the same time, he met and fell in love with Tamar Ben-Ami, a …

Jun 21, 2014 · Pictured here, Mahmoud Darwish embraces his Jewish girlfriend Tamar Ben Ami. The love story ended with the 1967 war and the Israeli occupation of Palestine. For …

Jul 10, 2015 · As young political activists on the fringes often do, Darwish met Tamar Ben Ami in the early 1960s at a political rally — this one for the Communist Party in Israel.

Aug 11, 2014 · After forty years of much suspense and speculation, the real Rita revealed herself to the world in a new film by director Ibtisam Maraaneh titled "Sajjel Ana Arabi" (Write Down: I …

Dec 12, 2018 · The “Rita” character who appears throughout his work, most notably in his poem “Rita and the Rifle,” was actually written for Darwish’s long-time Jewish girlfriend Tamar Ben …

Jun 4, 2014 · “Write Down, I Am an Arab,” which premiered at Tel Aviv’s DocAviv film festival last month, where it won the Audience Award, features the never-seen-before Hebrew love letters …

Jun 5, 2014 · The new film "Write Down, I Am an Arab" promises to tell the story of Mahmoud Darwish's love affair with Tamar Ben-Ami, the young Jewish woman the poet apparently fell …

Tamar Ben-Ami (1947-) Dancer, teacher and choreographer. Born in Haifa, she studied dance with Yardena Cohen and Gertrud Kraus, and in 1962 joined a local dance company which …

A dancer and choreographer (the film chronicles her stint in the Israeli navy’s performing troupe), Tamar divides her time between Tel Aviv and Berlin. She describes her art – and really her …

Apr 25, 2014 · Another notable thread features Darwish’s past Jewish-Israeli lover Tamar Ben-Ami. Tamar tells of their passionate forbidden romance and her story highlights how love, …