New Poetry: ‘The Tent Is Closing in on Us’
My body recognizes the feel of the air inside tents. It’s well-acquainted with the windy nights and the scorching days and everything in between. The humidity, relentless in both summer […]
Palestine
From Mahmoud Abu Hashhash’s ‘Violation’
Poems from Violation By Mahmoud Abu Hashhash Translated by Wiam El-Tamami My friends, faraway and safe in their houses and streets their offices and parks write to me asking: […]
‘Where I Write Now’: Husam Maarouf
By Husam Maarouf Translated by Wiam El-Tamami I want to tell you this: I miss the cool surface of my bookcase at home. I would lean my back against it, […]
Asmaa Dwaima: ‘A Sentence About Death’
A Sentence About Death By Asmaa Dwaima Translated by the ArabLit collective I would have been happy to die a martyr, but not in the way I see people dying […]
Novelist Ibtisam Azem on Absence, Presence, and Disappearance
Last month, the UK edition of Ibtisam Azem’s The Book of Disappearance appeared in Sinan Antoon’s translation from And Other Stories. Rahael Mathews took the opportunity to discuss this compelling […]
New Poetry in Translation: ‘The Seagulls are the Gateway of the Sea’
For the next several Wednesdays, ArabLit will be running a series of poems by Somaya Elsousi, a Palestinian poet from Gaza who now lives in Norway. You can read more […]
New Poetry of the Now by Basman Eldirawi
The Moment By Basman Eldirawi The saddest part is that we don’t know what the saddest part is Is it this moment? The next moment? Is the moment when […]
New Poetry from Gaza by Mohammed AlQudwa
War’s Echo By Mohammed AlQudwa Translated by Tala Al-Banna I have known war’s echo since I was a child age five when a rocket visited the sky of my […]
New Poetry: ‘Feet That Come Before the Dawn’
Palestinian poet Ramzi Salem’s “لم أنجُ من الحرب” originally appeared in Al Araby in January 2024. We ran a translation of his “أقدامٌ تسبق الفجر” yesterday. Feet That Come Before […]