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Ahlam Bisharat

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Ahlam Bisharat

Ahlam Bisharat is a memoirist, essayist, poet, and author of young adult fiction. Two of her young adult novels, Code Name: Butterfly and Trees for the Absentees, have been translated into English editions from Neem Tree Press. Ahlam is from Jiftlik, Palestine.

Articles by Ahlam Bisharat

Pedestrians walk on a dirt road in the city of Gaza

Photo by Emad El Byed on Unsplash

[Come here, Death, and let me feed you]

By Ahlam Bisharat

Even the moans of suffering that made me ache—I’ve stashed them away in a bag of old laments.

Translated from Arabic by Lena Khalaf Tuffaha

A photo of a brown leather wallet

Photo by charlesdeluvio on Unsplash

Code Name: Butterfly

By Ahlam Bisharat

It terrified me to hear the words “honor” and “flesh” in the same sentence.

Translated from Arabic by Nashwa Gowanlock