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Faces of al-Birwa

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A village in the western Galilee, east of Akka. It was the birthplace of the poet Mahmoud Darwish.

Its people were displaced in 1948, and the village was destroyed.

The school in al-Birwa
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The school in al-BirwaPhoto: وفاء خطيب · CC BY-SA 4.0

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al-Birwa, in Akka

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Subdistrict borders (1945) by Carlos HaGadol, Wikimedia Commons, CC BY-SA 4.0

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