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Background photo by Sved Oliver / Adobe StockA Visitor from Hell
A resident of Hell, I’ve been sitting here,
Lord,
for years.
Do I not deserve
to be a citizen?
How is it that even in Hell
the homes ha…
Kareem James Abu-Zeid
November 22, 2024
Asma Ghanem / Courtesy of the artist Hunger strike, fortieth day* Your bodies flutter on the ceiling of the room I can see your slow gestures the small bones in the joints of your hands y…
Mohamed Masri / Courtesy of the artist I Write the Land I want to write the land, I want the words to be the land itself. But I’m just a statue the Romans carved and the Arabs forgot. Colonizers…
New York. NYRB. 2021. 144 pages. IN NAJWAN DARWISH‘S unflinching new collection of poems, Exhausted on the Cross, we witness a poet in conflict with his calling, conversing w…
New York. New Directions. 2016. 120 pages. Several artists stand out among the many voices that a new wave of translation has made available to anglophone readers; one of these is the Lebanese writer…
Kareem James Abu-Zeid, tr. New York. New York Review Books. 2014. ISBN 9781590177303 Najwan Darwish is a young Palestinian poet, born in Jerusalem in 1978. He is no relation to the great Palestinian p…
