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 […]
Poetry
‘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 […]
‘The Idea Has Failed’: A Poem from Gaza by Basman Aldirawi
This poem is shared by Gazan Palestinian poet Basman Aldirawi, also the author of “This Bread Was Born, This Bread Was Killed.” The Idea Has Failed By Basman Aldirawi Translated […]
‘Our Loneliness’: A Poem by Hiba Abu Nada
Hiba Abu Nada was a Palestinian novelist, poet, educator, and nutritionist from Gaza. Her novel Oxygen is Not for the Deadwon the Sharjah Award for Arab Creativity in 2017. She […]
Two ‘Little Prose Texts’ by Abdallah Zrika
The following two “little” texts are translated from Abdallah Zrika’s Petites Proses published by L’Escampette in 1998. The author himself translated the texts from Arabic into French. The translations from […]
‘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 […]
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 […]