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Summer 2025 • Vol. XLVII No. 3 • Forough Farrokhzad Folio |

When the Arab Apocalypse Comes to America

By George Abraham

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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.

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