The book contains dozens of words spoken by Mahmoud Darwish on various occasions. Most of these words deal with personalities who excelled in one field or more, from Yasser Arafat to Emile Habibi and. . . Fadwa Touqan to Nizar Qabbani, Saadi Youssef and Muhammad Al-Maghout to Samir Kassir, Mamdouh Adwan and Joseph Samaha