Anthology of Modern Palestinian Literature

Salma Khadra Jayyusi, one of the Arab world's most distinguished literary personalities, is widely known for her poetry, literary criticism, and scholarship. She is author of the two-volume critical history Trends and Movements in Modern Arabic Poetry and editor of Literature of Modern Arabia, as well as Modern Arabic Poetry: An Anthology and Modern Arabic Fiction: An Anthology for Columbia University Press.

This massive, well-edited, translated, and researched volume is a living monument to the culture of a nation, now represented in English for the first time with remarkable results in coverage, accuracy, and authenticity.Far from a folkloric or exotic record, this anthology admits the Palestinian contribution to world culture at an eminent pace. Edward Said

• Acknowledgments List of Donors Chronology of Modern Palestinian History Introduction: Palestinian Literature in Modern Times Poetry Yusuf 'Abal al-'Aziz The Traveler The House A Place Mist A Song The Shaqueef Moon Khalid Abu Khalid Prayer to the Tremor of the Final Evening Yusuf Abu Lauz Trees on Maryam's Sleeves Maryam in the Grass Tress of Words Your Talk or the Vodka Abu Salma My Country on Partition Day We Shall Return I Love You More Zubair Abu Shayib Fever of Questions Probabilities Handsome and Tall Martyr PsalmTaba Muhammad 'Ali Thrombosis ExodusLaila 'Allush The Path of Affection A New CreationNaji 'Allush On the Shore'Abol al-Latif 'Aql "From Jersalem to the Gulf" On the Presence of AbsenceMuhammad al-As'ad Personal Account A Song Prophets Singers The Earth also Dies When the Inhabitants of the Planets Converse WhoMureed Barghouthy The Tribes The Guards Desire An Official Liberation Certainty Exception I Run toward You... I Run with You A VisionMu'een Bseiso Aladdin's Lamp for Sahba' Diary of Old Man Defector The Vinegar Cup Sailor Returning from Occupied Shores Footsteps I Was Already Dead!Hasan al-Buhairi Orange Blossoms The Malady and The CureAhmad Dahbour New Suggestions The Terms of Ambition I Do Not Renounce Madness Our CountryWaleed Khazindar Belonging Houses At Least Brambles You Will Arrive: Bewildered That Day Absence The StormRasim al-Madhoun One Thousand and One...Nights Family Poems Giyath Mihyar Um Giyath Peace Be Upon...Abol al-Raheem Mahmoud The Martyr Call of the Motherland The Aqsa MosqueHaydar Mahmoud The Last Witness Two-in-One The Palestinian Ayyub'Izziddin al-Manasra At Night Dawn Visitors The InheritanceKhairi Mansour A Nonpersonal Account Echo Two Old Ages The Road Poetry A ForestZakariyya Muhammad Apology My Things Everything A Tavern Emigration The Cafe Mistress A WomanKhalid 'Ali Mustafa Circling Meeting of Two Wounds The Hands Again The Sparrow Told MeMabmoud Darwish Poem of the Land Homing Pigeons Guests on the Sea Intensive-Care Unit Psalm 9 We Went to AdenMuhammad al-Dhahir Three Short Letters Joy The Little GirlWaleed al-Halees Days in the Life of a Palestinian BoySulafa Hijjawi Elegy on an Estranged Husband His Picture Death SentenceAhmad Husain A Souvenir Vendor in NazarethRashid Husain Damascus Diary Against FirstJabra Ibrahim Jabra Zero Hour For Socrates Love PoemSalma Khadra Jayyusi Khartoum The Woman Songs for an Arab City On June 5, 1968 The Three of Us AloneSalem Jubran Refugee Singer of Wind and Rain'Abol al-Kareem al-Karmi (see Abu Salma)Ali al-Khalili Dialectics of the Homeland What is Your Purpose, Murderous Beauty? Departure This CountryTaha 'Abol al-Ghani Mustafa Reverse JourneyKamal Nasir Letter to FadwaIbrahim Nasrallah Flight Passageway A Woman The Hand Thread SongJamal Qa'war At the Doorstep of SeptemberKamal Qaddura All This Is Strange, Like Everything Language Fragrance Part of a Wall Dead Memory Cold Race OverflowMuhammad al-Qaisi Vision Love poem I Love poem IV Love poem XII One-Day VacationSamih al-Qasim The Clock Bats Ashes Love Poems You Pretend to Die I Do Not Blame You Drunk'Abdallah Radwan The Fall Deformed To the Children You Are EverythingHarun Hashim Rasheed Poem to Jerusalem Raise Your ArmsTaher Riyad From "Signs"Laila al-Sa'ih Intimations of Anxiety The Ever-Deferred MomentWaleed Sayf Death's at Night's EndMai Sayigh Elegy for Imm 'Ali Departure Beirut under SiegeTawfiq Sayigh Poem 28 To Enter a Country The Poem K'Umar Sahbana Evening Balcony The Book of Songs and Stones KhuludMazin Shadeed The Caravan's Departure Love SongAnton Shammas Then How Will the Poem Come? An Evening of Poetry Reading Seven PoemsSa'adeh Sudah A Ring Your Hands Prophecy A Poem to Tayseer SaboulKhalil Touma Between the Wound and Its BleedingFadwa Tuqan The Sybil's Prophecy Enough for Me The Deluge and the Tree Song of BecomingIbrahim Tuqan Commando Dead Hearts Brokers Lest We Lose In Beirut'Abol al-Raheem 'Umar Songs of the Seventh Exodus Plea The SiegeGhassan Zaqtan Another Death An IncidentPROSE SHORT STORIESIbrahim al-'Absi What Happened After MidnightGhareeb 'Asqalani HungerLiyana Badr A Land of Rock and ThymeRiyad Baydas Hunger and the MountainZaki Darwish HorsesNajwa Qa'war Farah The Worst of Two Choices; or The Forsaken Olive TreeTawfiq Fayyad The IdiotEmile Habiby The Odds-and-Ends WomanAkram Haniyyeb After the Siege, a Little Before the SunMabmoud Sayf al-Din GarbageGhassan Kanafani The Little One Goes to the CampMuhammad Naffa' The UprootedWaleed Rabah Solo Tunes on a Zinc WallYahya Rabah Death of a Bird HunterFadl al-Rimawi The Sous VendorMabmoud al-Rimawi A Longing for the Good LandKbalil al-Sawahiri The SpectatorsMabmoud Shaheen The Sacred RiverSulaiman al-Shaikh KadimaYusuf Shruru One Eye by DayMahmoud Shuqair The VillagersYahya Takhlif That Rose of a WomanSELECTIONS FROM NOVELSSahar Khalifeh Memoirs of an Unrealistic WomanFaruq Wadi A Road to the SeaEXTRACTS FROM PERSONAL ACCOUNTSRashad Abu Shawar O BeirutMuhammad al-As'ad Children of DewMu'een Bseiso Palestinian NotebooksMabmoud Darwish A Memory for ForgetfulnessSubhi Ghosheh Our Sun Will Never Set How Did They Inform You? A MirrorTawfiz Zayyad Here We Shall Stay A Million Suns in my Blood What Next? Pagan Fires All I havePALESTINIAN POETS WRITING IN ENGLISHHanan Mikha'il 'Ashrawi Metamorphosis Women and Things Night Patrol Death by Buria From the Diary of an Almost-Four-Year-OldSharif Elmusa A Little Piece of Sky In Balance Camel Fragments When Slippers Mingle The BeggarLena Jayyusi Poem of Opposites At the Limit Breadmother Death of Enver Wintering AloneAminah Kazak Deportation My Last Day with AishaNaomi Shihab Nye My Father and the Fig Tree Shrines Blood Arabic Coffee The Words under the Words My Uncle Mohammad at Mecca, 1981Fawaz Turki The Seed Keepers Beirut Dusk in Galilee Osama Jibril of Jerusalem In Search of Yacove EvedYusuf Haykal Days of My YouthJabra Ibrahim Jabra The First WellKhalil al-Sakakini Such Am I, O WorldMai Sayigh The SiegeHisham Sharabi Embers and AshesSalah Ta'mari Journey into Hades: Diary of a Palestinian in an Israeli PrisonFadwa Tuqan A Mountainous JourneyEdward W. Said After the Last Sky: Palestinian LivesFirst Translators Second Translators Transliterated List of Arab Authors Glossary Selected Bibliography