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As if letting Palestinians speak means anything at this point. As a Palestinian I do not need permission to speak. I need you to listen. The Wax in your ears has petrified your souls.
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I too had an interview slated to appear
@GuernicaMag
and pulled it out. The essay they published is humiliating to Palestinians in any time let alone during a genocide. An essay as if a dispatch from a colonial century ago. Oh how good you are to the natives.
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One of my childhood neighbors in Riyadh lost his aunt, her kids (his cousins), and their kids; eight people killed in Al Shifa massacre in which Israel says no civilians were killed. The lies. The complicity. The cowrdice. The psychosis. Incredible. His mother and mine ...
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Israel has killed Shaymaa, Refaat Al-Areer's eldest daughter, to whom he had written "If I Must Die." Genocide works obsessively at all scales of extermination. Tornoto's public library that banned the poem a few days ago: Are you cmplicit? Who else?
"Suddenly I."
Breaking: We mourn with you the loss of Shaimaa, the eldest daughter of our dear friend Rafat Al-Araeer
@itranslate123
, and her husband, engineer Mohammed Abdel Aziz Siyam, along with their newborn baby, after their apartment near Al-Ramal Clinic in Gaza was targeted in an
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This is the essay I pulled from Guernica; thank you
@newinquiry
"...there is a solidarity whose horizon is assimilation, and there is a solidarity whose horizon is liberation...The former is hierarchical...The latter is citational. It names those it loves. " -
@FadyJoudah
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May you pass down this gorgeous dress to your own. May the dress be worn by generations of them and never be worn out. Free. Everything about you.
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What hell a lucky life can be.
I couldn’t catch fish in a mirage.
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IOF stormed Jazeera offices in Ramallah and is evacuating the entire staff for 45 days
Just NOW
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Remember these days America, and remember why, what for, and who held the light
The students are now singing in a huddle facing down the entire might of the NYPD. Oh my heart.
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In this poem, Refaat ALareer lives to old age and Kissinger dies young
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Oh the civilized are having another Abu Ghraib? Or is it worse and chronic? Oh they’re so good at calling themselves out, the civilized.
I bet you can’t wait for the next New Yorker article on this. By a big shot no doubt.
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Some news I share in honour of the real warriors across campuses and all beautiful Palestine Palestinians
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Love in its best and highest form is the most accurate description of what the students across campuses did/do. Those who editorialize about the student's moral rigidity are desperate for a mask that covers up their tacit okay-ness with the genocide. Not even therapy will help u
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RIP Elias Khoury
Rest in the eye of the gates of the sun
Memory is the process of organizing what to forget.
—Elias Khoury (1948-2024), Gate of the Sun, tr. Humphrey Davies
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Will this circulate more if she were dead or missing a limb or visibly in severe malnutrition? Because horror as spectacle is more effective? Will this trend reverse on the day after the day after?
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In time the US will return to this day and see only Rashida Tlaib. The truth she was on this day.
But what if that day never comes for the US?
No. It will. Such days always come.
I don’t think my heart would be able to take it if I was in a room with hundreds of people clapping for the man responsible for my people’s genocide so what Rashida is doing here is just so fucking immense.
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What I appreciate, besides this news being released on my mother's birthday, is the judge's citation: "And one with oness I be: from the river the sea."
@DianeSeuss
Gregory Pardlo
@NatalieGDiaz
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For years I have returned to this poem by Gerald Stern 1977 and I share it with all those whose hearts are “still a little shaky” from how beautiful you are. Believe.
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Eid Mubarak in my book […]
What is inside the air/ we are inside
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My new prose poem w audio; artwork by the brilliant
@malakmattar
;
@proteanmag
in honor of all hopsitals, all Palestinians. HABIBI YAMMA
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Art in empire is knowing
how to stitch your mouth open
for a prize to enter
for an editor of a house of record
to keep you periodical
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On Mom'ss Bday and the judges' citation ends with: "And one with oness I be: from the river the sea."
Congratulations to Fady Joudah
@FadyJoudah
, winner of the 2024 Jackson Poetry Prize. The prize, which this year carries an increased award of $100,000, is awarded annually by Poets & Writers to an American poet of exceptional talent. Read the press release:
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The Palestinian kids of Gaza say “we miss school”. Ours is a world that has taken this away from children and still argues about complicatedness. Our world that loves to pulverise what it vanquishes for generations. A world far from love.
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My oldest aunt’s grandsons. […] Daily.
Muhammad Saleh Joudah joins his brother Hussein (who was killed in late March) in martyrdom. May both these young souls rest in power, and may God grant their parents - who have now lost both of their sons - strength and patience.
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She looked at her killers the wrong way
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How is your devastation today?
Are you searching for new images for it? Have they become your only means to reverse or stop the horror? To catalog Remembrance? To take down the criminal with an eternity of shame? Because this worked before? Did it?
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@FadyJoudah
and it became clear I was going to be used by the magazine to clear their conscience.
This is how far American culture is from respecting a people enduring a genocide. We are games to be played.
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Some for you, some for me; from North Gaza Soup Kitchen Aid
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It’s hot. Water is precious. Families keep their children engaged by sending them to water and food lines. It becomes a social event.
She brings her doll along. Gaza.
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Do you wonder if your solidarity with Palestinians remains a politics of death? Can you imagine Palestinians as a living life force?
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my interview
@yalereview
w
@AriaAber
about [...] my new book/poetry collection written during the genocide of
#Gaza
#FreePalestine
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So Biden is establishing a US base on the Gaza shoreline. In the name of humanitarian horror. Yet another US military base.
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A bookstand in a time of genocide
A bookshop in time of a genocide. Deir Al-Balah. By Saed Abu Aita
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Launch day during a genocide; between hope, beauty, and drowning in dirt.
.
@FadyJoudah
's collection [...] offers multiple ways of seeing the world through a Palestinian lens. This urgent and powerful collection is out now from
@Milkweed_Books
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What writing after this writing? Astonishing!!
When he comes across the lifeless arm of a man, he tenderly arranges it around the lifeless body of a woman, reminiscent of the way he used to embrace his beloved while strolling by the boundless sea
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I won't live to see the manufacturers of eternity/ become the dust they deserve
The Stench
two new poems of mine
@proteanmag
@multiwhirl
with artwork by Jumana Emil Abboud
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"Among the horses my heart was a horse,/ in the night my heart was a night" a timeless poem by one of the great Palestinian writers today, and translated by one of the finest hands and hearts
@FakhreddineHuda
We’re honored to publish poet and novelist Ibrahim Nasrallah’s “Palestinian,” translated from Arabic by Huda Fakhreddine (
@FakhreddineHuda
).
“I died and lived. I lit myself on fire. I put myself out with my own ashes, / and nothing came of it.”
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And now with more access, more data: per US medics, the killed in Gaza are 92K. Soon you will all see that the real number is about a quarter of a million Palestinians killed directly & indirectly. And what will you do then? Give Palestinians a medal?
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My best friend, listen to her power and dignity
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What Children killers hate most is to see the children they did not kill dressed up beautifully by their mothers. Because their childhood will triumph.
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June Jordan, they-we keep repeating your words: "I was born a black woman and now I am become Palestinian." But in that poem you ask: "Where is Abu Fadi." The vowel is interchangeable. My Dad and I are here. He thanks you for asking. He is going strong.
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This on the heels of that essay on June Jordan and Lorde and Rich, in which Etel Adnan is mentioned, the namesake of the prize for Arab American poets. Which Hayan Charara and I launched a decade ago. The hacking and haunting is relentless. Will you speak up?
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Israel stormed Jazeera offices in Ramallah and ordered shutdown for 45 days. Exactly the time left for US elections.
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were best friends; his youngest sister was my youngest sister's age. He was my youngest brother's friend. They were kind people...
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in this genocide, i have lost count of who my dead are; all Palestinians have; all Palestinians are...
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One tomato, one olive, one cucumber, and one boiled egg at a time
Palestine will be Free
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When you mention June Jordan, I am reminded of my lines, Ghassan Zaqtan's lines, on your pages: "Defeat is being shrouded in another's banner while your enemies chant your name."
My name is "non-binding" to you, same as govt; you abstain.
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The stages of making couscous from scratch; Palestinians call it maftool. And the only thing Israeli ever was about it was using it to steal the identity of the people they now starve.
Gazan women cooking for hundreds of people daily.
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You will understand, you won't. You will not, you will.
Somewhere in Rafah between the thousands of tents, a young lad named Samih sat on a chair, played the Oud, and sang a song...
Take a moment of your time and enjoy!
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Another insidious and deliberate evil of this genocide is the silence on the impending famine which is irreversible once it sets in. Read and wake up. Hundreds will die daily. No need for bombs then.
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to allow a Palestinian their silence, their respite, their grief is not only to be actively silent in their presence, but also not to bulldozer their silence with more of your appropriation of their being and everything in it.
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[...] is shortlisted for the Forward prize in the UK and Ireland
@ForwardPrizes
@Outspoken_Press
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On my Mom's birthday, happy birthday Yamma, this is for you
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They are shocked now that Palestinians are gunned down while trying to recieve "humanitarian" aid. As if they don't know what happens in a genocide. As if they have not cheered it on until now.
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A new poem from […]
@lithub
“If the spirit screams, I scream, we all scream/ for or against a genocide on livestream”
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This is a poem of an essay; a meditation on a lovely movie. Youd have to read the essay and see the movie to know the worlds created. And the colonial silence.
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A clear-headed patient engagement with my work through one poem
@guardian
That I was astonished is part of the darkness that dominates
Light nonetheless (and disabled comments)
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Genocide ends the childhood of the world. How many times must childhood begin again?
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And they keep you in their hearts, pump you to their minds, circulate you unimagined
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I repost this poem because of "the genocide bouqet" that remains in effect, confuses itself for solidarity or reduces genocide to a social justice reflex, a ceiling for what talking about genocide (of Palestinians) in America is
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Dear [...]: Fifty ways to say it.
I’ve been with you longer than I’ve been with them.
Fifty ways to say it. You, my killer, have become my kin.
Say “Good morning” to me in Arabic.
And say “Good night.”
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To be a servant of the system of violence is the American dream. To look away is transcendent civility. How else to benefit from the riches of vampiric love.
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“America was in the process of demythologizing itself”
A secret gem of a book by the incomparable Jean Said Makdisi:
Beirut Fragments
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I see my ghost coming from afar
Here is Ismail’s tribute to himself and the dying humanity.
“Let me tell you, my friend, that I no longer know the taste of sleep. The bodies of children and the screams of the injured and their blood-soaked images never leave my sight. The cries of mothers and the wailing of
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Watermelon leading the road to liberation
But you: do you forget how many of these kids are orphans? And how many of the adults that serve them are bereft too?
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Do you preserve democracy to preserve genocide or dismantle democracy and preserve genocide
Tough choices out there
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Giant water, little children, cruel world, beautiful cookies for those who come (everyday is Christmas)
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Hosam Maarouf whose work I translated in 2021 has a go fund me page for his family please donate and share
Here’s one of his poems in my translation
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we have deserved praise way before it took a genocide for you to feel the praise that is ours is yours to give
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There will be Gaza after the dark times
...
I will survive. There is no better song
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Let’s try again to donate and circulate for this Palestinian writer and his family
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"They love you more when you’re dead.
You’re more alive to them dead.
Resuscitated, you enter the tunnel"
Two new poems from [...]
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A fleeting brilliance in a book packed with the madness of smiles
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Watermelon happiness
Watermelon to the rescue
Watermelon masks
the unspeakable. Impotent photos.
Are you saying: who
smiles in a genocide? Who
asks such a question: that
is the question.
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Paradise on Earth…fading. Every picture many details. How long the walk. Whose shirt? And the photographer who insists that they smile.
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How big is the bubble; how small? What listening is possible in it? Does it emit sound? Free Palestine.
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Two Palestinian poems, "upsidedown," quiet, tongue in cheek poems by the under-the-radar genius
@LKTuffaha
& hats-off to
@proteanmag
for their unflinching work. If you've never tasted the Palestinian Maqlubeh, or if you have.
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A new poem for those who have graduated their minds and souls to freer things. Thank
@thebafflermag
@ColumbiaSJP
@SJPatUCLA
"Knock, knoc. Who's there?"
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Nakba and her sisters
"My mother is three years younger than Nakba."
A poem by Sheikha Hlewa tr. Fady Joudah:
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