We Are Here to Stay

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.

This bilingual selection of poems by Tawfiq Zayyad will join Smokestack’s other poets from the Arab-speaking world – Amir Darwish (Syria), Chawki Abdelamir (Iraq), Anna Greki (Algeria) and Palestinian poets Ghassan Zaqtan, Reja-e Busailah and Farid Bitar, as well as Smokestack’s anthologies Poets and the Algerian War and A Blade of Grass: New Palestinian Poetry.

• | Author: Tawfiq Zayyad, Aida Bami
• | Publisher: Smokestack Books
• | Publication Date: Jan 01, 2023
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• | Binding: Paperback / softback
• | ISBN-13: 9781739772260
• | ISBN-10: 1739772261