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Asmaa Azaizeh

Asmaa Azaizeh is a poet, performer, and essayist based in Haifa. She is the author of three collections of poetry, Liwa, winner of the 2010 Al Qattan Foundation Debut Writer Award, As The Woman from Lod Bore Me, and Don’t Believe Me If I Talk To You of War. Azaizeh was the first director of the Mahmoud Darwish Museum in Ramallah in 2012. 

Reflection

Yesterday, I handed all my poems to my publisher.I feel like I handed him my headand the words I speak from now onwill come out of his mouth.What a disaster! Disasters don’t show up one at a time.They arrive in legions like a starving hoard.A poet said this then died.For ...