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We are here to stay

We are here to stay
Publisher: Smokestack Books
Published Date: January 2023
ISBN-13: 9781739772260

Aida Bamia (Translator), Tawfiq Zayyad (author)

Combining traditional Arabic verse-forms and free-verse, We Are Here to Stay some of his best-known poems about the Nakba, about life under military occupation, discrimination, imprisonment and land-seizures, as well as poems about family and love. Written with characteristic defiance, grace and wisdom.

Bilingual English-Arab edition, published to mark the 75th anniversary of the Nakba.

Author(s):

Aida Bamia
Aida Bamia
Tawfiq Zayyad
Tawfiq Zayyad

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