Memory for Forgetting: In this book, we read Mahmoud Darwish's description and literary analysis of what happened one day in the summer of 1982 in Beirut. On the last page of the book, the publisher says: Mahmoud Darwish wrote this hot text twenty years ago, about a long day during the siege of Beirut in 1982, in tense language, and in a style that combines narrative, poetic, nonfiction, and selection.