The Nakba, or "catastrophe," of 1948 saw hundreds of thousands of Palestinians dispossessed from their land to create the state of Israel, leading to a refugee crisis that is still ongoing today. This unique collection brings together the finest poetry and prose on the Nakba by Palestinian writers over the last 70 years, for the first time.

Writings before the Nakba
Ibrahim Tauqan (My Homeland and Red Tuesday, Translated by Issa J. Boullata)
Abu Salma al-Karmi (We Will Return)
Abdel Rahim Mahmoud (The Martyr)
Samira Azzam (Bread of Sacrifice, Translated by Salma al-Jayussi; or Man and His Alarm Clock, Translated by Joseph Farag )
Aref al-Aref (Excerpt from: The Catastrophe: The Catastrophe of Jerusalem and the Lost Paradise)
Wasif Jawhariyyeh (Excerpt from the Storyteller of Jerusalem: The Life and Times of Wasif Jawhariyyeh (1904-1948, authored by Salim Tamari and translated by Nada El-Zeer)
Ishaq Musa al-Husayni (Excerpt from: Memories of A Hen)
Post Nakba
Constantin Zureiq ( Excerpt from The Meaning of the Disaster)
Mohammad Izzat Darwazeh (Excerpt from: Memories of Mohammad Izzat Darwazeh)
Fadwa Tauqan
Ghassan Kanafani (The Land of Sad Oranges)
Jabra Ibrahim Jabra (excerpt from Hunters in a Narrow Street)
Samih al-Qassim (So What If; Kafr Qasim; The End of A Discussion with A Travel Guard; Travel Tickets)
Muin Bisisi
Emile Habibi
Mahmoud Darwish (Two Poems: Record I am an Arab and At the Train of a Station which Fell of The Map; To the Land and Standing Before the Ruins of el-Birweh, I am from There)
Tawfiq Ziad (Like Twenty Impossible, We Shall Remain)
Taha Muhammad Ali (Exodus)
Rashid Hussein (Without a Passport)
Salma Khadra Jayussi
Ahmad Dahbur
Tawfiq Sayigh (To Enter A Country)
Yahya Yakhlif
Sahar Khalifeh
Mourid Barghouthi
Walid Khalidi
1993
Ghassan Zaqatan (Remembering the Grandmother and Beyond That)
Raja Shehadeh (Excerpt from: A Rift in Time: Travels with My Ottoman Uncle)

Edward Said Excerpt from After the Last Sky)
Ghada Karmi (Excerpt from In Search of Fatima)
Ibrahim Nasrallah (Excerpt from The Time of the White Horses)
Antun Shammas (Excerpt from Arabesques)
Ribai al-Madhoun (Destinies: Concerto of the Holocaust and the Nakba)
Elias Khoury (Excerpt from Men in the Sun)
Liana Badre
Atef Abu-Sayf
Adaniyya Shibli
Fawaz Turki
Jean Said Makdisi
Salman Abu Sitta (Mapping My Return: A Palestinian Memoir)
Karl Sabbagh (Palestine: A Personal History)
Lisa Suhair Maja (Fifty Years On / Stones in an Unfinished Wall)
Najwan Darwish (Excerpt from Nothing More to Lose)
Remi Kanazi
Sharif S. Elmusa
Sayed Kashua