George Abraham (they/ هو ) is a Palestinian American poet, essayist, critic, and performance artist. Their debut poetry collection, Birthright (Button Poetry, 2020) won the Arab American Book Award and was a Lambda Literary Award finalist. They are the executive editor of Mizna and coeditor of HEAVEN LOOKS LIKE US: Palestinian Poetry (Haymarket Books, 2025). They are a graduate of Northwestern’s Litowitz MFA+MA program and teach at Amherst College as a writer-in-residence.
Forough Farrokhzad Folio
Summer 2025
Postcolonial Novel
Hijacking Richie Hofmann’s “French Novel”You were my second intifada,You had dark eyes and hairLike the painting of an Arab.We lay on our stomachs, digging tunnels in our homeland.I emailed my […]
Forough Farrokhzad Folio
Summer 2025
When the Arab Apocalypse Comes to America
And here I ama woman aloneat the threshold of a cold season — Forough Farrokhzad, "Let Us Believe in the Beginning of the Cold Season," translated by Elizabeth T. […]
Forough Farrokhzad Folio
Summer 2025
My Eve of No Nation
Hijacking Philip Metres's "My Heart Like a Nation" Of course you have set my verse on fire. — Forough Farrokhzad, translated by Elizabeth T. GrayYou who cannot throw off exile,who, […]