Image by the author By Abdulghani Al-Shuaibi The ovens of bread are cold as stone,Like graves unmarked, the fields lie prone.Children’s stomachs echo like drums,Hollow hymns where... Continue reading
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By Abdulghani Al-Shuaibi You, butcher masked in flags of false defence,Whose bombs defile the wells and fields of grace,Your creed of fire reveals your impotence—A tyrant’s hand,... Continue reading
Commons image, CCA 2:0 By Steve Pottinger In the film ‘The Wild One’, the character played by Marlon Brando is askedwhat he’s rebelling against. His reply? “Whadda... Continue reading
Palestinian child arrested by Israeli soldiers By James O’Brien You don’t have to die to be dead,The blueprints are a shroud dripping with glee,Watch enough murder corpses... Continue reading
Words United by Michael Rosen is available here. Continue reading
A Palestinian woman near the Israeli fence in Mas’Ha. By Cathal Ó SearcaighAfter Tawfiq Zayyad Here in Gaza, in Ramallah, in Galilee,we will perpetuate our kind, preserve our... Continue reading
A found poem by David Betteridge, made from sentences in a speech made by Tom Fletcher, UN Under-Secretary-General for Humanitarian Affairs and Emergency Relief Coordinator, Geneva, 22nd... Continue reading
By Yahia Lababidi He who fights monsters should see to it that, in the process,he does not become a monster — Nietzsche Tell me, what steel entered... Continue reading
By Abdulghani Al-Shuaibi O tyrant heart, does pity not take root?Where olive branches weep beneath the flame,You silence mouths with famine’s iron boot—A crafted curse, yet call... Continue reading
Symbol of Hope, by Sliman Mansour Yahia Lababidi presents the Introduction to his new book of poetry, Palestine Wail, together with a poem from the book INTRODUCTION:... Continue reading
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