Contributor

Hiba Abu Nada

Contributor

Hiba Abu Nada

Palestine

Hiba Abu Nada was a Palestinian poet, novelist, and educator. Her novel الأكسجين ليس للموتى (Oxygen Is Not for the Dead) won second place in the Sharjah Award for Arab Creativity in 2017. She was killed in her home in the Gaza Strip by an Israeli airstrike on October 20, 2023. She was 32....

You can also read her poem “I Grant You Refuge” and “Not Just Passing” in Huda Fakhreddine’s translation.

Photo by Wolfgang Hasselmann on Unsplash

“Pull Yourself Together” and “Seven Skies for the Homeland”

By Hiba Abu Nada

In our books, hunger and bread are synonyms, / light and darkness all broken shards.

Translated from Arabic by Huda Fakhreddine

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Hiba Abu Nada

Hiba Abu Nada

Articles by Hiba Abu Nada

“Pull Yourself Together” and “Seven Skies for the Homeland”