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Yahia Lababidi

Yahia Lababidi is an Arab-American writer of Palestinian background. He is the author of more than a dozen books of poetry and prose, including most recently On the Contrary (2025), a study of the lives and literature of Friedrich Nietzsche and Oscar Wilde. Lababidi’s acclaimed collection, Palestine Wail, is available from Daraja Press.

 

When War Returns as Habit

I imagine a terrible scene: A parent standing outside a school after a strike, waiting for names to be read. Reports arrive broken and uncertain, numbers shifting with every update.
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The Mirror and the Empire: Reading "The Reluctant Fundamentalist" in the Age of Palestine

If we assume danger because a Pakistani man leans toward an American, the mirror condemns us. If we sense only the peril to Changez, we miss the shared vulnerability that
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An Open Letter to Israel: An Appeal to Mercy, Memory and the Possibility of Peace

Mercy surrounds the living and the dead, the visible and the unseen, the faithful and those who have forgotten faith. It breathes through creation as the pulse that sustains being.
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Empire Doesn't Just Arm Israel. It Arms the Vocabulary Supporting It.

I grew up believing that fidelity to language is fidelity to truth. Scripture taught me that truth is a form of prayer, and that naming is part of justice. Then
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A Region Holding Its Breath: After the Israel-Iran War

Call me naïve, but I once trusted that peace was still desired in the Middle East. I believed Israeli leaders sought an end to Palestinian resistance out of existential fear—not
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"Perfect Victims" by Mohammed El-Kurd: Unapologetically Walking Barefoot Over Glass

Mohammed El-Kurd’s “Perfect Victims” is not a book that seeks permission. It does not explain or apologize. It stands, instead, as a piercing intervention—a record of how the world looks
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New Poetry on Gaza: 'Why Care About Gaza?' and 'Stranger in a Strange Land'

Because you did not have to run out to hunt / for a spare tent in the middle of the night / — chest-constricted and frantic —
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'Waking Nightmares' and 'Overwhelming Emotion,' Two New Poems on Palestine

How is it that / life carries on, ' as they cry for us, / from under the rubble?
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The Art of Palestinian Resistance

“All beautiful poetry is an act of resistance,” wrote Mahmoud Darwish, the poet laureate of Palestine.
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