Mahmoud Darwish - 2025 ACF Winter

Question

A long prose poem by this author asks “Does it happen much, that you are awakened from one dream by another, itself the interpretation of the dream?” For 10 points each:

[10m] Name this author whose poem Memory for Forgetfulness opens “Out of one dream, another dream is born.” The refrain “Write down! / I am an Arab,” appears in this Palestinian poet’s “Identity Card.”

ANSWER: Mahmoud Darwish

[10e] Darwish’s poem “A Soldier Dreams of White Lilies” compares love to a glass of this substance. A line in Omar Khayyam’s Rubaiyat mentions “a Jug of [this drink], a Loaf of Bread—and Thou.”

ANSWER: wine [prompt on alcohol]

[10h] Darwish’s poem “We Fear for a Dream” appears in the volume Victims of a Map, which he co-wrote with Samih al-Qasim and this poet of “Worries (A Dream).” This Syrian poet of Songs of Mihyar the Damascene created the first complete Arabic translation of Ovid’s Metamorphoses.

ANSWER: Adonis [or Adunis; or Ali Ahmad Said Esber]

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Summary


California	Main	Y	5	20.00	80%	80%	40%
Canada	Main	Y	6	18.33	100%	67%	17%
Florida	Main	Y	13	13.85	85%	46%	8%
Great Lakes	Main	Y	6	11.67	67%	50%	0%
Lower Mid-Atlantic	Main	Y	7	14.29	86%	43%	14%
Midwest	Main	Y	10	16.00	100%	60%	0%
North	Main	Y	11	15.45	91%	46%	18%
Northeast	Main	Y	5	14.00	100%	40%	0%
Overflow	Main	Y	4	15.00	100%	25%	25%
Pacific Northwest	Main	Y	12	15.83	100%	58%	0%
South Central	Main	Y	5	18.00	100%	60%	20%
Southeast	Main	Y	12	18.33	92%	58%	33%
Upper Mid-Atlantic	Main	Y	8	16.25	100%	50%	13%
2025 ACF Nationals	2025-08-09	Y	14	16.43	79%	71%	14%
2024 ARCADIA at UC Berkeley	04/19/2025	Y	4	7.50	75%	0%	0%
Southern California	Main	N	1	20.00	100%	0%	100%
Eastern Canada (2)	Main	N	1	20.00	100%	0%	100%
Upper Mid-Atlantic	Main	N	2	15.00	100%	50%	0%
Northeast	Main	N	4	25.00	100%	100%	50%
Southeast	Main	N	1	30.00	100%	100%	100%
UK (North)	UK	N	1	20.00	100%	100%	0%

Data


Berkeley A	Berkeley C	10	10	10	30
Berkeley E	Stanford A	10	10	0	20
Berkeley D	Stanford B	10	10	0	20
Berkeley F	Stanford C	0	0	0	0
Berkeley B	UCSC	10	10	10	30
UCI	Claremont Pitzer	0	10	0	10
UCLA A	UCLA C	10	10	10	30
UCLA D	UCLA B	10	10	0	20
UCSD Two Running Violet V Forms	UCSB	10	10	0	20
USC	UCSD Vices and Virtues	0	10	0	10
Claremont Scripps	UCSD What Hath God Wrought	10	10	0	20
McGill A	Ottawa	10	10	0	20
McGill C	Carleton	10	10	0	20
Toronto D	Guelph A	0	10	0	10
McMaster B	Waterloo	0	0	0	0
Toronto E	Queen's B	0	10	0	10
Toronto A	McMaster A	10	10	10	30
Toronto C	Toronto B	10	10	0	20
Toronto G	Toronto F	10	10	0	20
Toronto I	Toronto H	0	0	0	0
Toronto Metropolitan	Toronto J	10	10	0	20
Toronto K	McMaster C	0	10	0	10
Guelph B	Western Ontario	0	10	0	10
Queen's A	McGill B	0	10	0	10
ERAU A	FIU	0	0	0	0
ERAU B	UF D	0	10	0	10
UCF A	FSU	10	10	0	20
UCF B	Melbourne A	10	10	0	20
UF A	UF C	0	0	0	0
UF E	UF B	10	10	0	20
OSU C	CWRU A	10	10	10	30
CWRU B	Pitt A	10	10	0	20
CWRU D	MSU B	0	10	0	10
Kenyon A	Pitt C	0	10	0	10
CWRU C	MSU A	0	0	0	0
OSU D	Kenyon B	0	10	0	10
Pitt B	OSU A	10	10	0	20
Virginia Tech A	James Madison	0	10	0	10
Virginia B	Liberty C	10	10	0	20
North Carolina B	Tennessee B	10	10	0	20
North Carolina C	Roanoke	10	10	0	20
South Carolina B	South Carolina A	0	10	0	10
Tennessee A	Liberty B	10	10	0	20
Tusculum	NC State	10	10	0	20
North Carolina A	Virginia A	10	10	0	20
Virginia Tech B	Clemson B	0	10	0	10
VCU A	Georgetown A	0	10	0	10
Catholic University	Maryland D	0	10	0	10
George Washington A	UMBC A	0	0	0	0
Johns Hopkins C	George Washington B	10	10	0	20
George Mason C	Johns Hopkins B	0	10	0	10
Penn A	Maryland A	0	10	0	10
Maryland B	Penn B	10	10	10	30
Johns Hopkins A	Maryland C	10	10	0	20
NYU A	George Mason B	10	10	10	30
NYU B	George Mason A	10	10	0	20
Notre Dame E	Georgetown B	0	10	0	10
Lehigh B	Columbia B	0	10	0	10
Columbia C	Lehigh A	0	10	0	10
Princeton A	Rutgers C	0	10	0	10
Swarthmore A	Rutgers B	10	10	0	20
Columbia A	Vassar A	10	10	0	20
SIUE	WashU B	0	10	0	10
Truman State	William Woods	0	10	0	10
Missouri A	WashU A	10	10	10	30
WashU C	WashU D	0	10	0	10
Chicago B	Chicago A	10	10	0	20
Notre Dame A	Chicago C	10	10	0	20
Louisville B	Chicago D	0	10	0	10
Illinois C	Illinois A	10	10	0	20
Michigan A	Indiana A	10	10	0	20
Illinois B	Michigan C	10	10	0	20
Purdue C	Michigan D	0	10	0	10
Louisville A	Notre Dame B	10	10	0	20
Notre Dame D	Indiana B	0	10	0	10
Purdue A	Michigan B	10	10	0	20
Purdue B	Notre Dame C	0	10	0	10
Kentucky	UIC	0	10	0	10
Clemson A	Liberty A	0	10	0	10
Carleton	Macalester A	10	10	0	20
Macalester B	St. Thomas	10	10	10	30
Brown A	Amherst B	10	10	0	20
Brandeis Clemenceau	BC A	10	10	0	20
Bowdoin A	BC B	0	0	10	10
BU	Bowdoin B	0	10	0	10
Amherst A	Brandeis Lloyd George	10	10	10	30
Brown B	Brandeis Orlando	0	10	0	10
Harvard	Dartmouth	10	10	0	20
MIT A	Cornell-UG	10	10	10	30
MIT B	Brandeis Wilson	0	10	0	10
Yale A	Tufts A	10	10	10	30
Yale B	Tufts B	0	10	0	10
Williams	Brown C	10	10	0	20
Iowa State	Minnesota C	10	10	0	20
Nebraska	Minnesota B	0	10	0	10
Wisconsin	Minnesota A	0	10	0	10
Alberta B	Ohio	0	10	0	10
Northwestern A	McGill D	10	10	0	20
Texas A	Rose State	10	10	0	20
Arizona State A	Texas B	10	10	10	30
Tulsa	Northwestern C	0	10	0	10
UCO	Arizona State B	10	10	0	20
UTD A	Northwestern B	0	10	0	10
Iowa	UTD B	0	10	0	10
Cambridge C	Imperial B	10	10	0	20
Durham A	Cambridge D	0	10	0	10
Birmingham A	City St George's A	10	0	0	10
Edinburgh B	Bristol A	10	10	0	20
Cornell-DII	Binghamton A	0	10	0	10
Binghamton B	Syracuse	0	10	0	10
RIT B	RIT A	0	10	0	10
Rochester	ESF	0	0	0	0
Bristol B	Edinburgh A	0	10	0	10
Cambridge A	LSE B	10	10	10	30
Southampton A	Imperial C	10	10	0	20
LSE A	Lancaster A	10	10	10	30
Manchester A	Sheffield C	10	10	0	20
Manchester B	Warwick B	0	0	0	0
Durham B	Oxford A	0	0	0	0
Sheffield A	Oxford B	10	10	0	20
Cambridge B	Sheffield B	10	10	0	20
Warwick A	Southampton B	10	10	0	20