2026 Neustadt Prize to Ibrahim Nasrallah
Yesterday evening, organizers announced the great Palestinian novelist and poet Ibrahim Nasrallah as the 29th laureate of the Neustadt International Prize for Literature.
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Ibrahim Nasrallah’s ‘The Birds of Ala’ Al-Najjar’
On Friday morning, the 23rd of May 2025, while Ala’ Al-Najjar, a Palestinian pediatrician at Al-Nasser Medical Complex in Khan Younis in the Southern Gaza Strip, was treating the wounds of the injured children of the genocidal Israeli war, she received the news of martyrdom of her nine children: Yahia, Rakan, Raslan, Jubran, Eve, Revan, Sadeen, Luqman, and Sidra. Her eldest child was twelve years old, whereas her youngest was only a six-months old baby. Nine days later, her husband, Dr. Hamdi Al-Najjar, joined his children due to his serious wounds. Ala’ has only one child left alive. This poem is written for her.
Ibrahim Nasrallah’s ‘Do You Hear Me? What Now?’
This poem, by the acclaimed Palestinian poet Ibrahim Nasrallah, was originally published in al-Quds. It asks, relentlessly, refusing to cede the present: “What now?”
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 […]
#PalestineWrites: Literature, Erasure, and Preservation
“Shukair stressed the important role Arab educational institutions play in keeping Palestinian literature alive.”
Friday Finds: Excerpts from 6 IPAF-shortlisted Novels
The book features short excerpts from all six of the novels, with an introduction written by the chair of judges, Ibrahim al-Saafin.