Word: beseisso
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During the final days of the battle for Tel Zaatar, a besieged Palestinian refugee camp that fell to Christian rightists during the Lebanese civil war in 1976, the last radio message that crackled over the air waves from the fighters inside was a request for the poems of Mouin Beseisso. "The partisans and fighters name Beseisso the poet of the revolution," came the message. "Let us hear his voice and his poems once more." Palestinian audiences listen with rapt attention to his strong, highly political verse, whose cadences reflect the long tradition of oral history and the loneliness...