Good Morning Gaza
October 25, 2023
On the untranslatability of Mahmoud Darwish’s “The Final Meeting in Rome.”
Fady Joudah‘s most recent poetry collection is Footnotes in the Order of Disappearance (Milkweed Editions, 2018) and his most recent translation is a fictive autobiography by Hussein Barghouthi, The Blue Light (Seagull Books, 2023). A Palestinian American physician, poet, and translator, he’s a recipient of the Yale Series prize and a Guggenheim fellowship for poetry.