‘Not Just Passing’: A Poem by Hiba Abu Nada
Hiba Abu Nada was a Palestinian poet, novelist, and educator. Her novel الأكسجين ليس للموتى (Oxygen is Not for the Dead) won second place in the Sharjah Award for Arab Creativity […]
Poetry
On Queer-positive Sonic Expression and Activism in Palestine: 10 Songs
By an ArabLit contributing writer The current crisis in Palestine is humanitarian. It’s not queer. Not feminist. It’s a crisis of more than 14,000 dead, more than 6,000 of them […]
‘What Do We Do During Genocide’: A Poem by Mohja Kahf
Mohja Kahf writes from Arkansas, USA. The image is by Hesham, of a kitchen into which he’d moved only seven months before. What Do We Do During Genocide By Mohja Kahf […]
An Excerpt from: Ahlam Bsharat’s ‘I Saw, Father, What You Saw’
Ahlam Bsharat is a poet, educator, and the author of many books for young readers. She has written numerous poems in the last six weeks. This excerpt comes from “يا […]
New Poetry: Fady Joudah’s ‘Sunbird’
Words, we believe, are the flesh & bone of human solidarity. They are mutual assistance; they build and reinforce our networks of shared understanding. When people swing an axe at […]
A Poem by Olivia Elias from Day 38, Nov. 14
On November 13, we shared a special section on Palestinian poet Olivia Elias, who writes in French, which included video readings by Elias and her translators; a conversation between Elias […]
New Poem from Gaza: Basman Aldirawi’s ‘This Bread Was Born, This Bread Was Killed’
From Gaza, writer and poet Basman Aldirawi — one of the contributors to Light in Gaza: Writings Born of Fire — shares new work. You can get the ebook of Light in […]
Palestinian Poems with and for the Now
This list is a beginning. Please borrow and/or expand it. You can find more poems at this Word doc. There is also this beautiful PDF, which includes additional resources. Rasha Abdulhadi That Nation […]
An Excerpt of ‘Your Name, Palestine’ by Olivia Elias
Excerpted from Your Name, Palestine, published this month by World Poetry Books. Poems by Olivia Elias, translated by Sarah Riggs and Jérémy Victor Robert, with drawings by Basil King. […]