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Kareem James Abu-Zeid

Kareem James Abu-Zeid PhD, is an award-winning translator of poets and novelists from across the Arab world. He has received the Sarah Maguire Prize, PEN Center USA's translation prize, Poetry Magazine's translation prize, a Fulbright Fellowship, and an NEA translation grant, and has twice been a finalist for the PEN America Translation Prize. His translation of Najwan Darwish’s No One Will Know You Tomorrow: Selected Poems 2014 – 2024 (Yale Margellos, 2024) is currently longlisted for the 2025 PEN America Translation Prize in Poetry.

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A Song for the Māori People

A Song for the Māori People What sun have you come from, my brothers? “From beyond death, we’ve come to you.” What path have you taken to bring us water, bread, and words? “We’ve come from the life your people …

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6 Poems by Najwan Darwish

Born and raised in Jerusalem, Najwan Darwish has been hailed by the New York Times Book Review as ‘one of the foremost Arabic-language poets of his generation’. Nothing More to Lose, superbly translated by Kareem James Abu-Zeid, is his first …

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