{"id":5454,"date":"2025-11-26T16:17:48","date_gmt":"2025-11-26T12:17:48","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/mcmmediahub.aus.edu\/?p=5454"},"modified":"2026-01-22T08:09:49","modified_gmt":"2026-01-22T04:09:49","slug":"house-of-wisdom-opens-multimedia-exhibit-on-mahmoud-darwish","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mcmmediahub.aus.edu\/index.php\/2025\/11\/26\/house-of-wisdom-opens-multimedia-exhibit-on-mahmoud-darwish\/","title":{"rendered":"House of Wisdom Opens Multimedia Exhibit on Mahmoud Darwish"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<div style=\"position: relative; width: 100%; height: 0; padding-bottom: 56.25%\">\n\t<iframe src=\"https:\/\/aus.cloud.panopto.eu\/Panopto\/Pages\/Embed.aspx?id=d1d12304-2e3b-4af3-8a84-b3a100ca74f5&#038;autoplay=false&#038;offerviewer=false&#038;showtitle=false&#038;showbrand=false&#038;captions=false&#038;interactivity=none\" style=\"border: 1px solid #464646; position: absolute; top: 0; left: 0; width: 100%; height: 100%; box-sizing: border-box;\" allowfullscreen allow=\"autoplay\" aria-label=\"Panopto Embedded Video Player\" aria-description=\"2025-11-26-house-of-wisdom-opens-multimedia-exhibit-on-mahmoud-darwish\"><\/iframe>\n<\/div>\n\n\n\n<p>By Myia Hamed<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>UNIVERSITY CITY, SHARJAH \u2014 The House of Wisdom opened a multimedia exhibit celebrating the life and influence of Palestinian poet Mahmoud Darwish, drawing students and visitors from across the United Arab Emirates.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The exhibit features interview recordings and interactive stations designed to introduce younger audiences to Darwish\u2019s literary legacy. Organized in partnership with regional cultural institutions, the event highlights the poet\u2019s global reach, with materials tracing his work from cities such as Moscow and Cairo to his lasting impact in the Arab world.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Several installations allow attendees to listen to Darwish\u2019s poetry through headphones while viewing historic images of Palestine. A dedicated projection corner displays interviews and speeches, offering insight into the themes of memory, homeland, and identity that shaped his writing.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Students from universities across the UAE say the exhibit provides a deeper understanding of Darwish\u2019s relevance today. Alya Al Suwaidi, an AUS student, said the experience \u201copens space for young people to reflect on how his work continues to speak to them.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The exhibit remains open until March 13, 2026.&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>By Myia Hamed UNIVERSITY CITY, SHARJAH \u2014 The House of Wisdom opened a multimedia exhibit celebrating the life and influence of Palestinian poet Mahmoud Darwish, drawing students and visitors from across the United Arab Emirates. The exhibit features interview recordings and interactive stations designed to introduce younger audiences to Darwish\u2019s literary legacy. Organized in partnership [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":5455,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"video","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7,4,79,84,78,11],"tags":[17,46,27,66,25],"class_list":{"0":"post-5454","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-video","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-campus-news","8":"category-videos","9":"category-news","10":"category-video","11":"category-video-features","12":"category-video-reports","13":"tag-community","14":"tag-culture","15":"tag-international","16":"tag-news","17":"tag-sharjah-uae","18":"post_format-post-format-video"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mcmmediahub.aus.edu\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5454","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mcmmediahub.aus.edu\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mcmmediahub.aus.edu\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mcmmediahub.aus.edu\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mcmmediahub.aus.edu\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=5454"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/mcmmediahub.aus.edu\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5454\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mcmmediahub.aus.edu\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/5455"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mcmmediahub.aus.edu\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=5454"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mcmmediahub.aus.edu\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=5454"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mcmmediahub.aus.edu\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=5454"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}