Poetry - Middle Eastern

A powerful act of remembrance and resistance, 70,000 transforms cultural erasure into an archive of grief, memory, and hope. 70,000 is a visceral and inventive poetry collection inspired by the removal of approximately 70,000 books from Palestinian homes and private libraries before and during...

"Darwish is the premier poetic voice of the Palestinian people . . . lyrical, imagistic, plaintive, haunting, always passionate, and elegant--and never anything less than free--what he would dream for all his people." -- Naomi Shihab Nye "Catherine Cobham's translations sway delicately between mystery...

How totally must a heart break so that gratitude is repeatedly uttered on our lips? In Alhamdulillah Anyway, Moudi Sbeity responds by holding the grief of witnessing the genocide in Gaza and the war in Lebanon alongside praise for existing at all. As a...

The first English translation of recent poetry by the late Mahmoud Darwish, the most important Palestinian contemporary poet. Almond Blossoms and Beyond is one of the last collections of poetry that Mahmoud Darwish left to the world. Composed of brief lyric poems and the...

2021 Arab American Awards - George Ellenbogen Poetry Award Winner 2021 Lambda Literary Awards - Bisexual Poetry Finalist 2020 Big Other Awards - Poetry Winner 2020 Big Other Awards - Readers' Choice Finalist Abraham's highly anticipated debut Birthright constructs a dialogue in which "every...

"Blood Orange" is a highly emotional, important and timely poetry collection by Mx. Yaffa (They/She), a trans Muslim displaced Indigenous Palestinian. Their writings probe the yearning for home, belonging, mental health, queerness, transness, and other dimensions of marginalization while nurturing dreams of utopia against...

UpSet Press has restored to print Suheir Hammad's first book of poems, Born Palestinian, Born Black, originally published by Harlem River Press in 1996. The new edition is augmented with a new author's preface, and new poems, under the heading, The Gaza Suite, as...

"Mr. Akbar's poems give language and form to many experiences I thought too abstract for expression. They are at once deeply personal and about all of us."-John Green, The Wall Street Journal"...Akbar proves what books can do in his exceptional debut, which brings us...

The speaker in Iranian-American poet Leila Farjami's debut collection, Daughter of Salt, fiercely engages with and questions her mother, her father, ancestors, and herself. Patriarchy, intergenerational trauma, and displacement swirl together, colored by the frustration at being expected to hold it all together for...

In this defiant and urgent collection, Noor Hindi navigates Arab womanhood, migration, queerness, and Palestinian identity with striking and evocative lyricism.Author: Noor HindiPublisher: Haymarket BooksPublished: 05/31/2022Pages: 80Binding Type: PaperbackWeight: 0.30lbsSize: 8.90h x 5.90w x 0.40dISBN: 9781642596960About the AuthorNoor Hindi (she/her/hers) is a Palestinian-American poet...

This stunning debut blends personal narrative, religious imagery, and pop culture in a chronicle of illness, womanhood, and faith.Author: Leila ChattiPublisher: Copper Canyon PressPublished: 04/21/2020Pages: 74Binding Type: PaperbackWeight: 0.45lbsSize: 8.90h x 7.00w x 0.40dISBN: 9781556595899Review Citation(s): Publishers Weekly 02/17/2020 pg. 176About the AuthorLeila Chatti...

The Persian Sufi poet Hafiz (1326-1390) is a towering figure in Islamic literature--and in spiritual attainment as well. Known for his profound mystical wisdom combined with a sublime sensuousness, Hafiz was the supreme master of a poetic form known as the ghazal (pronounced "guzzle"),...

A collection of Palestinian poetry originally published in 1970 that resonates with liberation and civil rights struggles around the world. This updated edition for the current generation of activists features new poems translated by Edmund Ghareeb, an internationally recognized Lebanese American scholar, and a...

The complete poems of the priestess Enheduana, the world's first known author, newly translated from the original Sumerian "Helle's translation feels urgent, incandescent, stripped of academic cladding. . . . The growing popularity of Enheduana gives all of us readers a chance to discover...

A Millions Most Anticipated 2026 Selection"This is poetry of the highest order, and a stunning reminder of what words can do."--Omar El Akkad"Hold this book, read every word, study every picture, notice the prints you leave behind--a reminder that no one's hands are clean."--Robin...

Fajr and Noor is a collection of quotes and poetry. A book filled with Noor that will illuminate your soul and guide you into a true Muslim. It is about the life of starting your day with Fajr and adorning yourself with Noor.Author: S....

A NEW YORK TIMES NOTABLE BOOK - "A powerful, capacious, and profound" (Ocean Vuong) new collection of poems about life in Gaza by an acclaimed Palestinian poet and Pulitzer Prize-winning writer You are alivefor a momentwhen living peoplerun after you. Barely thirty years old,...

This poetry collections focuses on a hybridized Indigiqueer Trickster character named Zoa who brings together the organic (the protozoan) and the technologic (the binaric) in order to re-beautify and re-member queer Indigeneity. This Trickster is a Two-Spirit / Indigiqueer invention that resurges in the...

One of Lit Hub's most Anticipated Poetry Books !Like Mandelstam, Akhmatova, and Vallejo, Gazan poet Nasser Rabah embodies the magnificent possibilities of the human spirit and imagination under extreme conditions."Nasser Rabah is my favorite living poet in Palestine. The musicality of his lines could...

Gilgamesh is considered one of the masterpieces of world literature, but until now there has not been a version that is a superlative literary text in its own right. Acclaimed by critics and scholars, Stephen Mitchell's version allows us to enter an ancient masterpiece...