The Mahmoud Darwish Foundation was established on 4 October 2008 as a Palestinian non-profit foundation that "seeks to safeguard Mahmoud Darwish's cultural, literary and intellectual legacy."[85] The foundation administers the annual "Mahmoud Darwish Award for Creativity" granted to intellectuals from Palestine and elsewhere.[86] The inaugural winner of the prize, in 2010, was Egyptian novelist Ahdaf Soueif.
In the Presence of Absence (2011), a Syrian television series directed by Najdat Anzour that tells the biography of Darwish[87]
