Gujiao is a county-level city in Shanxi province, People's Republic of China. It is administered by the prefecture-level city Taiyuan. Gujiao's population in 1990 stood at 173,022. Its estimated current population is 210,000. Wikipedia

Mahmoud Darwish was a Palestinian poet and author who won numerous awards for his literary output and was regarded as the Palestinian national poet. In his work, Palestine became a metaphor for the loss of Eden, birth and resurrection, and the anguish of dispossession and exile. Wikipedia