Three 2024 Collections of New Poetry with and from Gaza
Three new poetry collections gather work mostly written in the final months of 2023. Out now, from the Publishers for Palestine collective, is Poems for Palestine, a free booklet of […]
Poetry
Two Poems by Ahmad Al-Mulla: ‘This Scar’ and ‘Ancient Souls’
This Scar By Ahmad Al-Mulla Translated by Nour Jaljuli He wakes up every day before every passing mirror, to search for it on his cheek swearing that it’s the mark […]
New Poetry by Basman Elderawi: ‘I Am Not Jesus’
I Am Not Jesus By Basman Elderawi I am not Jesus, but since birth I move along the Via Dolorosa, carrying the guilt of the world on my back. I […]
New Poetry in Translation: Ibrahim Nasrallah’s ‘Mary of Gaza’
The new poem “Mary of Gaza” was composed by Ibrahim Nasrallah. The English translation is by Huda Fakhreddine. Ibrahim Nasrallah was born in 1954 to Palestinian parents who were uprooted […]
Poetry in Translation: Wadih Saadeh’s ‘The Suicides’
This translation initially ran in our Summer 2019 issue of ArabLit Quarterly. Who stormed checkpoints, taboos and fears, who conquered the darkness of the tunnel as they passed through it […]
A Poem from Ghassan Zaqtan’s New Collection
Editor’s note: The poems in Ghassan Zaqtan’s Strangers in Light Coats, translated by Robin Moger and published by Seagull Books this month, are come from four of Zaqtan’s collections, published […]
‘Drawing Class,’ by the Late Gazan Poet Salim Al-Nafar
Drawing Class Salim Al-Nafar Translated by Danielle Linehhan Kiedaisch and Lorna MacBean, as appeared in A Bird Is Not a Stone, with permission from editors Sarah Irving and Henry Bell. […]
New Poetry from & for Gaza: ‘You Don’t Need Your Glasses, Santa’
You Don’t Need Your Glasses, Santa By Basman Aldirawi Translated by Tala Ladki Do you see that black cloud over there, Santa? There used to be a child from Gaza, […]
A New Poem by Fady Joudah
Palestinian poet, scholar, and educator Refaat Al-Areer’s poem “If I Must Die” was his pinned tweet when he was killed on December 7, 2023, when an an Israeli airstrike targeted […]