“Old Song” by Nima Hasan translated by Huda Fakhreddine “I love you” is enough. A longer phrase requires sprawling walls, refugee camps, and a girl with braids long as wheat fields, a candy swirl t…

“Because You Wished For It” &because you is the object of love you yes you my enemy into whose enmity I was born you are my always and I am the never you have tried to master you who knows well…

In "Poetry Begins at STOP: Etel Adnan & Arabic," Huda Fakhreddine examines place, time, and anti-colonial memory in Arabic literature, concluding that "A poem in itself is survival, and a poem written...

The new book from Peter Beinart, "Being Jewish After the Destruction of Gaza," is reviewed by Joshua Gutterman Tranen. "The truth that Beinart cannot face is that there is no prize to be won here, no ...

A conversation in which two Arabic to English translators and scholars consider Gaza with respect to the west's racism and indifference.

Medics in Palestinian territory say more than 30 killed in strikes; Netanyahu says ‘final details’ of deal still being worked on

هدى فخر الدين، كاتبة صاحبة مشروع، وهذا المشروع يعمل باتجاهات عديدة،...

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Zarqa al-Yamama, (the Blue-Eyed Woman of Yamama) is a legendary pre-Islamic Arab woman, a Cassandra figure, renowned for her extraordinary intuition and her ability to perceive what others could no…

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The AAUP condemns the reported arrests of two faculty members and three designations of faculty as "personae non grata" at New York University. As the AAUP has maintained since 1940, faculty should be...

It’s time to celebrate another year of translations, and there’s plenty to celebrate.

بَيْتٌ طفلةً، ما كان لي بيتٌ واحدٌ أحنُّ إليه. كنّا ضيوفًا على حيواتِنا، مترقبين نتنقلُ بين الملاجئ والأمكنةِ المستعارةِ كيفما أرادَتْ الحربُ أن تتقلَّبَ في فراشها الوثير غافلةً. كنّا نتبعثرُ ومن مثلَ...

بَيْتٌ طفلةً، ما كان لي بيتٌ واحدٌ أحنُّ إليه. كنّا ضيوفًا على حيواتِنا، مترقبين نتنقلُ بين الملاجئ والأمكنةِ المستعارةِ كيفما أرادَتْ الحربُ أن تتقلَّبَ في فراشها الوثير غافلةً. كنّا نتبعثرُ ومن مثلَ...

Lena Khalaf Tuffaha is a poet, essayist, translator and teaching artist.

We Will Lose This War By Samer Abu Hawwash Translated by Huda Fakhreddine We won’t cut down a tree. We won’t burn a field. We won’t kill a man or a woman, an elder or a child. We won’t disturb the …

Nothing is so dangerous as a news report wherein Palestinians die in the passive voice, the horrific violence massaged into meaningless oblivion, the perpetrators somehow irrelevant. (review)

This article examines Hussein Yassin’s novel (b. 1943-), Alī: Qissat Rajul Mustaqīm (2017), (ʿAlī: The Story of an Honorable Man), the first historical fiction which treats the real story of ʿAlī ʿ...