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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....

She is the author of three books, Water & Salt (Red Hen), winner of the 2018 Washington State Book Award, Kaan and Her Sisters (Trio House, 2023), and Something About Living, (University of Akron, 2024), winner of the 2022 Akron Prize. Tuffaha was the curator and translator of the 2022 series Poems from Palestine at the Baffler magazine. You can learn more about her work at www.lenakhalaftuffaha.com.

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Articles by Lena Khalaf Tuffaha

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.