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Lena Khalaf Tuffaha

Poet essayist and translator Lena Khalaf Tuffaha
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Lena Khalaf Tuffaha

Palestine

Lena Khalaf Tuffaha is a poet, essayist, translator and teaching artist. Her work has appeared in the Los Angeles Review of Books, The Nation, New England Review, Michigan Quarterly Review, and Poetry, among others.

Articles by Lena Khalaf Tuffaha

Picture of author Huda Farkheddine next to the cover of The Universe all at Once by Salim Barakat...
Translating Palestine: Lena Khalaf Tuffaha Interviews Huda Fakhreddine
By Lena Khalaf Tuffaha
The Nakba of 1948, and the endless states of exile and refugeedom into which it cast the Palestinian people across the Arab world and beyond, sparked many new trends and movements in modern Arabic literature and art during the second half of the twentieth…
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
Old man walks amid ruins of Gaza with cane in hand, impassive in the face of enormous destruction.
Palestinian News & Information Agency (Wafa) in contract with APAimages via Wikimedia Commons
Against Silence: Palestinian Writing in English
By Lena Khalaf Tuffaha
For as long as Palestinians have resisted their occupiers, a companion narrative questioning our very existence, a profoundly dehumanizing narrative rooted in the West’s still unexamined anti-Arab racism, has also thrived, writes Lena Khalaf Tuffaha.