Najwan Darwish
Najwan Darwish is one of the foremost contemporary Arab poets. Since the publication of his first collection in 2000, his poetry has been hailed across the Arab world and beyond as a singular expression of the Palestinian struggle. He has published eight books in Arabic, and his work has been translated into more than twenty languages. NYRB Poets published Darwish’s collections Nothing More to Lose (2014) and Exhausted on the Cross (2021). Darwish lives between Haifa and his birthplace, Jerusalem.
Reading List
A Dinner Invitation
Translated from the Arabic by Kareem James Abu-Zeid I told myself: If you want to see her now, look where the sky meets the mountain as it descends to the sea. Her invitation’s eternal now, and her home is time. So let others sing their lamentations, let them surrender to separation. I’ll […]
Home
Translated from the Arabic by Kareem James Abu-Zeid Nothing but the nightmare bus passes by our home, nothing but the whistle of a single train sounds in our memory— sometimes it takes our children, sometimes it brings us colonizers. Its whistle is the silence of victims, its smoke is their history. And in our […]