Najwan Darwish

Najwan Darwish (b. 1978, Jerusalem) is one of the foremost contemporary Arab poets. He has published eight books in Arabic, and his work has been translated into more than twenty languages. His most recent book in English translation is Exhausted on the Cross (NYRB Poets, 2021).

Three Poems from Palestine

Summer 2021
Najwan Darwish

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. Col...
Exhausted on the Cross by Najwan Darwish

Spring 2021
Najwan Darwish

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...
Nothing More to Lose by Najwan Darwish

March 2015
Najwan Darwish

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...