© Columbia University Press
Anthology of Modern Palestinian Literature
October, 1992
Paper, 740 pages,
ISBN: 978-0-231-07509-1
$40.00
/ £27.50
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
Psalm
Taba Muhammad ‘Ali
Thrombosis
Exodus
Laila ‘Allush
The Path of Affection
A New Creation
Naji ‘Allush
On the Shore
‘Abol al-Latif ‘Aql
“From Jersalem to the Gulf”
On the Presence of Absence
Muhammad al-As’ad
Personal Account
A Song
Prophets
Singers
The Earth also Dies
When the Inhabitants of the Planets Converse
Who
Mureed Barghouthy
The Tribes
The Guards
Desire
An Official
Liberation
Certainty
Exception
I Run toward You ... I Run with You
A Vision
Mu’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 Cure
Ahmad Dahbour
New Suggestions
The Terms of Ambition
I Do Not Renounce Madness
Our Country
Waleed Khazindar
Belonging
Houses
At Least
Brambles
You Will Arrive: Bewildered
That Day
Absence
The Storm
Rasim 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 Mosque
Haydar Mahmoud
The Last Witness
Two-in-One
The Palestinian Ayyub
‘Izziddin al-Manasra
At Night
Dawn Visitors
The Inheritance
Khairi Mansour
A Nonpersonal Account
Echo
Two Old Ages
The Road
Poetry
A Forest
Zakariyya Muhammad
Apology
My Things
Everything
A Tavern
Emigration
The Cafe Mistress
A Woman
Khalid ‘Ali Mustafa
Circling
Meeting of Two Wounds
The Hands Again
The Sparrow Told Me
Mabmoud Darwish
Poem of the Land
Homing Pigeons
Guests on the Sea
Intensive-Care Unit
Psalm 9
We Went to Aden
Muhammad al-Dhahir
Three Short Letters
Joy
The Little Girl
Waleed al-Halees
Days in the Life of a Palestinian Boy
Sulafa Hijjawi
Elegy on an Estranged Husband
His Picture
Death Sentence
Ahmad Husain
A Souvenir Vendor in Nazareth
Rashid Husain
Damascus Diary
Against
First
Jabra Ibrahim Jabra
Zero Hour
For Socrates
Love Poem
Salma Khadra Jayyusi
Khartoum
The Woman
Songs for an Arab City
On June 5, 1968
The Three of Us Alone
Salem 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 Country
Taha ‘Abol al-Ghani Mustafa
Reverse Journey
Kamal Nasir
Letter to Fadwa
Ibrahim Nasrallah
Flight
Passageway
A Woman
The Hand
Thread
Song
Jamal Qa’war
At the Doorstep of September
Kamal Qaddura
All This Is Strange, Like Everything
Language
Fragrance
Part of a Wall
Dead Memory
Cold
Race
Overflow
Muhammad al-Qaisi
Vision
Love poem I
Love poem IV
Love poem XII
One-Day Vacation
Samih 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 Everything
Harun Hashim Rasheed
Poem to Jerusalem
Raise Your Arms
Taher Riyad
From “Signs”
Laila al-Sa’ih
Intimations of Anxiety
The Ever-Deferred Moment
Waleed Sayf
Death’s at Night’s End
Mai Sayigh
Elegy for Imm ‘Ali
Departure
Beirut under Siege
Tawfiq Sayigh
Poem 28
To Enter a Country
The Poem K
‘Umar Sahbana
Evening Balcony
The Book of Songs and Stones
Khulud
Mazin Shadeed
The Caravan’s Departure
Love Song
Anton Shammas
Then How Will the Poem Come?
An Evening of Poetry Reading
Seven Poems
Sa’adeh Sudah
A Ring
Your Hands
Prophecy
A Poem to Tayseer Saboul
Khalil Touma
Between the Wound and Its Bleeding
Fadwa Tuqan
The Sybil’s Prophecy
Enough for Me
The Deluge and the Tree
Song of Becoming
Ibrahim Tuqan
Commando
Dead Hearts
Brokers
Lest We Lose
In Beirut
‘Abol al-Raheem ‘Umar
Songs of the Seventh Exodus
Plea
The Siege
Ghassan Zaqtan
Another Death
An Incident
PROSE
SHORT STORIES
Ibrahim al-’Absi
What Happened After Midnight
Ghareeb ‘Asqalani
Hunger
Liyana Badr
A Land of Rock and Thyme
Riyad Baydas
Hunger and the Mountain
Zaki Darwish
Horses
Najwa Qa’war Farah
The Worst of Two Choices; or The Forsaken Olive Tree
Tawfiq Fayyad
The Idiot
Emile Habiby
The Odds-and-Ends Woman
Akram Haniyyeb
After the Siege, a Little Before the Sun
Mabmoud Sayf al-Din
Garbage
Ghassan Kanafani
The Little One Goes to the Camp
Muhammad Naffa‘
The Uprooted
Waleed Rabah
Solo Tunes on a Zinc Wall
Yahya Rabah
Death of a Bird Hunter
Fadl al-Rimawi
The Sous Vendor
Mabmoud al-Rimawi
A Longing for the Good Land
Kbalil al-Sawahiri
The Spectators
Mabmoud Shaheen
The Sacred River
Sulaiman al-Shaikh
Kadima
Yusuf Shruru
One Eye by Day
Mahmoud Shuqair
The Villagers
Yahya Takhlif
That Rose of a Woman
SELECTIONS FROM NOVELS
Sahar Khalifeh
Memoirs of an Unrealistic Woman
Faruq Wadi
A Road to the Sea
EXTRACTS FROM PERSONAL ACCOUNTS
Rashad Abu Shawar
O Beirut
Muhammad al-As’ad
Children of Dew
Mu‘een Bseiso
Palestinian Notebooks
Mabmoud Darwish
A Memory for Forgetfulness
Subhi Ghosheh
Our Sun Will Never Set
How Did They Inform You?
A Mirror
Tawfiz Zayyad
Here We Shall Stay
A Million Suns in my Blood
What Next?
Pagan Fires
All I have
PALESTINIAN POETS WRITING IN ENGLISH
Hanan Mikha’il ‘Ashrawi
Metamorphosis
Women and Things
Night Patrol
Death by Buria
From the Diary of an Almost-Four-Year-Old
Sharif Elmusa
A Little Piece of Sky
In Balance
Camel Fragments
When Slippers Mingle
The Beggar
Lena Jayyusi
Poem of Opposites
At the Limit
Breadmother
Death of Enver
Wintering Alone
Aminah Kazak
Deportation
My Last Day with Aisha
Naomi Shihab Nye
My Father and the Fig Tree
Shrines
Blood
Arabic Coffee
The Words under the Words
My Uncle Mohammad at Mecca, 1981
Fawaz Turki
The Seed Keepers
Beirut
Dusk in Galilee
Osama Jibril of Jerusalem
In Search of Yacove Eved
Yusuf Haykal
Days of My Youth
Jabra Ibrahim Jabra
The First Well
Khalil al-Sakakini
Such Am I, O World
Mai Sayigh
The Siege
Hisham Sharabi
Embers and Ashes
Salah Ta‘mari
Journey into Hades: Diary of a Palestinian in an Israeli Prison
Fadwa Tuqan
A Mountainous Journey
Edward W. Said
After the Last Sky: Palestinian Lives
First Translators
Second Translators
Transliterated List of Arab Authors
Glossary
Selected Bibliography