Nothing More to Lose (NYRB/Poets) by NajwanDarwish Paperback, 120 Pages, Published 2014 by Nyrb Poets Abridged, Audiobook, Box Set, Illustrated, Large Print ISBN-13: 978-1-59017-730-3, ISBN: 1-59017-730-4
"Published for the first time in English, this volume brings together a selection of poems by Najwan Darwish, from his earliest work written in the late 1990s to his most recent in 2013. Hailed across the Arab world and beyond as a singular expression of the Palestinian struggle, Darwish's poetry walks the razor's edge between despair and resistance, between dark humor and the harsh reality of death. Here, the psychological, social, and ..."
Embrace 26 (World Poet Series) by NajwanDarwish, Atef Alshaer, Paul Batchelor Paperback, Published 2020 by The Poetry Translation Centre ISBN-13: 978-1-916114-12-8, ISBN: 1-916114-12-1
"The New York Review Books, which published the English translation of his collection Nothing More to Lose in 2014, describes him as 'one of the foremost Arabic-language poets of his generation'."
"A much-anticipated follow-up to Nothing More to Lose, this is only the second poetry collection translated into English from a vital voice of Arabic literature. “We drag histories behind us,” the Palestinian poet Najwan Darwish writes ..."
"PALESTINE. BEGIN? Yasmin. El-Rifae. I'm sitting in my office in New York,
lingering over the draft of an email I need to send to the staff. It explains my
complicated trip through Saudi Arabia and Germany and Egypt, finally to
Palestine for the festival. I feel that I am not straightforward enough for these
colleagues, most of whom are three or four hours away from home, their families
a city or a state away instead of scattered ac ..."
"... all with professional invitations from prestigious institutions in Europe or the US
which they, like my breakfast hostess, could not take up because Israel refused
them permission to leave Gaza. Life is lived here in an intellectual and
psychological stranglehold. But it is part of the will to survive of Gazans that so
many of them make their voices resonate so far outside. One of these men with a
stream of invitations was Ziad ..."
"Writers from Alice Walker to Michael Ondaatje to Claire Messud share their thoughts on one of the most vital gatherings of writers and readers in the world.The Palestine Festival of Literature was established in 2008 by authors Ahdaf Soueif, Brigid Keenan, Victoria Brittain and Omar Robert Hamilton. Bringing writers to Palestine from all corners of the globe, it aimed to break the cultural siege imposed by the Israeli military occupatio ..."
"Writers from Alice Walker to Michael Ondaatje to Claire Messud share their thoughts on one of the most vital gatherings of writers and readers in the world.The Palestine Festival of Literature was established in 2008 by authors Ahdaf Soueif, Brigid Keenan, Victoria Brittain and Omar Robert Hamilton. Bringing writers to Palestine from all corners of the globe, it aimed to break the cultural siege imposed by the Israeli military occupatio ..."
"Marking seventy years of displacement and occupation in Palestine, Mizna presents The Palestine Issue, centering the Palestinian struggle for liberation and the rich literature it has spurred, guest edited by playwright and poet Ismail ..."
Nothing More to Lose by NajwanDarwish 120 Pages, Published 2014 by New York Review Of Books ISBN-13: 978-1-59017-747-1, ISBN: 1-59017-747-9
"Half American and half Egyptian, he has translated novels by the Lebanese
writer Rabee Iaber and the Sudanese writer Tarek Eltayeb, as well the poetry
collection The Iraqi Nights by Dunya Mikhail. Abu-Zeid also translates from
French and ..."
Exhausted on the Cross by NajwanDarwish 145 Pages, Published 2021 by New York Review Of Books ISBN-13: 978-1-68137-553-3, ISBN: 1-68137-553-2
"A much-anticipated follow-up to Nothing More to Lose, this is only the second poetry collection translated into English from a vital voice of Arabic literature. “We drag histories behind us,” the Palestinian poet Najwan Darwish writes ..."