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Najwan Darwish, one of Palestine’s most prominent poets, ends his poem “I Write the Land” with the notion that he, and many other Palestinians, eventually will be erased: “My words are ...
Darwish’s poetry is being rediscovered by a new generation, as the hashtag #mahmouddarwishpoetry has gained nearly 18 million views on TikTok and social media is awash with his poems.
City Lights Booksellers and Publishers organized a February 7 group reading of Palestinian poet Mosab Abu Toha’s Things You May Find Hidden in My Ear: Poems from Gaza, published by the San ...
In Part 2 of our in-depth interview with Palestinian writer Mosab Abu Toha, he reads several poems from his new book Forest of Noise, half of which he says was written before the start of Israel ...
Israel is aware of the threat posed by Palestinian writers, both inside and outside the Occupied Territories. Before the first intifada, poets like Nablus-born Fadwa Tuqan were arrested, their poems ...
Within an original poem, spelled out in neon lettering, the Indigenous artist Demian DinéYazhi´ hid a message in their installation at the Whitney Biennial in New York. Unknown to the show’s ...
Harvard Activists Have a New Reason To Protest. Does Palestine Fit In? As Harvard students and faculty protest the second Trump administration, they sometimes coexist uneasily with the pro ...
Short Bio: Batool Abu Akleen is a Palestinian poet and painter whose work transcends borders.At 15, she won the Barjeel Prize for her poignant poem I Didn’t Steal the Cloud. Displaced from Gaza ...
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