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Najwan Darwish

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Najwan Darwish

Palestinian Territory, Occupied

Najwan Darwish is one of the foremost contemporary Arab poets. His second major collection in English translation, Exhausted on the Cross, was published by NYRB Poets in 2021, with a foreword by Raúl Zurita. Darwish lives between Haifa and his birthplace, Jerusalem.

Articles by Najwan Darwish

The Monastery of Saint Naum

Fif' from Paris, France, CC BY-SA 2.0, via Wikimedia Commons

Near the Shrine of Saint Naum

By Najwan Darwish

I stood in the red church, / its tiny domes like buds / blossoming in stone

Translated from Arabic by Kareem James Abu-Zeid

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Life in Mount Carmel

By Najwan Darwish

Their poems reach me from their temple

Translated from Arabic by Kareem James Abu-Zeid & Nathalie Handal