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Nasser Rabah

Nasser Rabah
Nasser Rabah was born in Gaza in 1963. After getting a degree in Agricultural Science, he went on to work as Director of the Communication Department in the Agriculture Ministry. He is a member of the Palestinian Writers and Authors Union and has published five collections of poetry and two novels. Gaza: The Poem Said Its Piece, came out with City Lights in 2025, and two volumes of his poetry were recently published in Spanish translation. His poems have appeared in ArabLit, Harper’s, The Markaz Review, The New Yorker, The Paris Review, Words Without Borders, World Literature Today, and many other places. He lives in Gaza.


“How Much We Died…”
A Poem by Nasser Rabah

“nothing left in the day’s haggard pockets / but dizzying hunger and rows of rubble”
July 1, 2025  By Nasser Rabah
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Mosab Abu Toha on the Poetry of Nasser Rabah

From the Collection “Gaza: The Poem Said Its Piece”
April 21, 2025  By Nasser Rabah
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“Dead Cats Continue to Meow.” A Poem by Nasser Rabah

“One morning, we didn’t find homes, just heaps of red words piled like dirty clothes on sidewalks...”
December 22, 2023  By Nasser Rabah
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