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New Haven, Connecticut. Yale University Press. 2024. 248 pages.In Isabella Hammad’s short story of the Palestinian diaspora, “Mr. Cana’aan,” Haifa-born historian Jibril Tamimi explain…
Najwan Darwish
November 22, 2024Background photo by Sved Oliver / Adobe Stock A 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 ho…
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. C…
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…
Kareem James Abu-Zeid, tr. New York. New York Review Books. 2014. ISBN 9781590177303Najwan Darwish is a young Palestinian poet, born in Jerusalem in 1978. He is no relation to the great Palestinian po…
