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Protected: Ileya

By Adedayo Agarau

Protected: There are nights that escape

By Irma Pineda, translated by Wendy Call

Protected: This is war

By Irma Pineda, translated by Wendy Call

Protected: Death’s night won’t come gently

By Irma Pineda, translated by Wendy Call

Najwan Darwish

Najwan Darwish is one of the foremost contemporary Arab poets. His second major collection in English translation, Nothing More to Lose and Exhausted on the Cross, translated by Kareem James Abu-Zeid, was published by NYRB Poets in 2021, with a foreword by Raúl Zurita. It was shortlisted for the 2022 PEN Award for Poetry in Translation, the National Translation Award in Poetry, and the Derek Walcott Prize, and won the Sarah Maguire Prize. Darwish lives between Haifa and his birthplace, Jerusalem. His third collection in English, No One Will Know You Tomorrow: Selected Poems, 2014-2024, translated by Kareem James Abu-Zeid, is published by The Margellos World Republic of Letters, Yale University Press, 2024.
Poetry

A Star from the Land of the Dead

By Najwan Darwish, translated from Arabic by Kareem James Abu-Zeid January 15, 2025
Your departure’s no departure, / your return is no return
Poetry

A Letter from Ain Defla

By Najwan Darwish, translated from Arabic by Kareem James Abu-Zeid January 15, 2025
I’m standing in the fog / and I cannot stay.
Poetry

A Yemeni Rhythm

By Najwan Darwish, translated from Arabic by Kareem James Abu-Zeid January 15, 2025
A song in the wadi / is all that remains.
Poetry

Umm Kulthum Singing for the Prophet

Poetry by Najwan Darwish, translated from the Arabic by Kareem James Abu-Zeid April 22, 2021
The Star of the East sings for the Prophet / while I release my song
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