Sixty years ago today I entered this world. with native wonders and mysteries as my life unfurled I have felt God’s hand on me from earliest recall steadying me when I stumble, lifting me when […]
The children’s voices, can’t you hear some voices distant, some voices near Some are calm, but most are not in their beds or on a cot Children sleeping having dreams but there’s no laughter, only […]
Falastin seven decades come and gone millions looking for a home. Innocent to cause their fate death of thousands stats to date ally, foe, it comes and goes for their actions nothing shows braver souls […]
Moscow! Mother says when Farouk asks, Capital of Russia? Japan? Tokyo! She gazes at the sun mirrored in a pane across the courtyard. “You were born a week after Nagasaki,” she says to Farouk who […]
By Stephen Brackens Brinkley One simple soul begs to ask the question: How many lives will it take, To embolden humanity to be humane? How many lives will it take? Hearing the cries […]
This Palestine Chronicle video is dedicated to Razan Al-Najjar, Gaza’s March of Return, and to every Palestinian who resisted and continues to resist. ‘Throw a Stone’ is a poem by Ramzy Baroud, with original music […]
By Gary Corseri I write for the men of a thousand years hence— and the women—and their healthy children. And…, if you are suffering, if night is day and day is night, I will drink […]
By Stephen Brackens Brinkley VISUALIZE with me, just for a moment, waking up tomorrow morning to find that the United States has had a spiritual awakening and a conversion to right action and a true […]
By Gary Corseri Please help the people in Houston, Lord. And, while You’re at it, in Palestine, too! Though worlds apart, they are kindred, as all suffering creatures are kindred. Is the child who is […]
By Samah Sabawi life beyond livability is inevitable like the rainfall and the winter storms life inside the walls is ferocious…stubborn unstoppable It grows like dandelions through parched rocks inevitable it transcends obstacles and powers […]
By Ramona Wadi the potent permanence of frenzied excavation in remnants of spaces between sand and stone I pause at intonations framed against books unrivalled eloquence festering behind screens glass stained in blue an essence […]
Reviewed by Samah Sabwai (Wasting the Milk in the Summer by Sara Saleh) Once in a while, you come across a poetry collection and your world comes to a stand still! You hold your breath […]
By Pande Manoylov Water and salt, water and salt every day… And for a moment you felt like a man in the Israel jail, far underground they only give you water and salt they tell […]
By Stephen Brackens Brinkley Imagine a world where anyone can do anything to anyone else without fear of being punished. Imagine a world where someone is being attacked and there are crowds of people witnessing […]
By Aida Qasim Salt of the earth Lead me to the water Noble sons and daughters Of this Free earth That spreads through Your mother’s land All the birds And olive trees Prostrate At […]
(To the old woman in Jerusalem, who lost everything.) By George Polley Why did these men in black steal my house with all my things in it, saying my house is theirs, that it […]
By Sonnet Mondal You all are culpable— for wending your way to schools for going to hospitals, for playing in open spaces and for keeping at your dreams within a country in rags. Yes, you […]
By Stephen Brackens Brinkley We are all interconnected We are all interdependent We are all part of the One My Sisters and Brothers, Don’t you see? Every microcosm is reflective of the macrocosm As above […]
By Stuart Rees (To record a young Gazan student’s characteristically gutsy six week wait, with her two-year-old son, for permission to exit Gaza via Israel to Jordan, eventually having to escape through the Rafah crossing […]
By Chris Lane is a warm welcome breeze from the womb, for kittens and kids a mother’s tongue for desert life, water for us the kiss of love. living is an enormous void an incalculable, […]
By Niall McDevitt at the Citadel of Jerusalem built by John Hyrcanus I there is barbed wire and yellow weeds the hooded crow of Jerusalem calls from the Minaret of the Mosque, raw […]
By Aida Qasim It was neither an exceptional nor particularly mundane morning but I was not the same The bashful sun cautiously lifted the white shroud hovering above Ramallah’s towering skyline Memories nurtured and cajoled […]
The late Palestinian poet and icon, Mahmoud Darwish, has stirred controversy in Israel eight years after his death after Army Radio aired a show about him as inciting terrorism. Israeli defence ministry yesterday issued a […]
(In 1995, Osama ElBorno, the author’s father, was shot in the head by an Israeli soldier on the third day of Eid, while visiting a friend in Gaza. His last words were, “Is everyone okay?” […]
By George Polley They came from Europe, these people, single and in families, eager to settle. They said they were returning home, though we had never seen them, were here for generations stretching back for a thousand […]
By Nour El-Borno – Gaza Moons shine through her eyes As she walks past her house: Here, she once laughed; There, she once cried. “I remember,” she whispers. The dark hours that […]
By Ramzy Baroud “(At dawn) … I will resist … (Since) upon the wall there is still a white sheet … And my fingers are yet to (completely) dissolve.” This is a translated verse from […]
By Yousef M. Aljamal – Gaza A group of female graduates at the Islamic University of Gaza, in collaboration with the American Consulate in Jerusalem, organized American Literature Day on May 5, 2016, at Gaza’s […]
By Aida Qasim I knew you long before the planets determined their order Awakening a higher purpose in me And unearthing a consciousness of a noble cause Patiently you listened as I explored my relationship […]
Reviewed by Stuart Rees (Vacy Vlazna, ed., I remember my name – Poetry by Samah Sabawi, Ramzy Baroud, Jehan Bseiso. Novum Publishing, 2016) Poetry’s Panacea Conditions on the West Bank, in Gaza, in East Jerusalem and […]
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