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Rawad Z. Wehbe is a scholar and translator of Arabic literature. He is the translator of Where Not to Be Born (Litmus Press, 2024). He is a contributing translator to Home: New Arabic Poems (Two Lines Press, 2020). His translations have also appeared in Michigan Quarterly Review, READ, Doublespeak, Words Without Borders, and Inventory. He received his PhD in Arabic literature from the University of Pennsylvania and is assistant professor of Arabic at the University of Utah.
  • The End of Palestine in English
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    The End of Palestine in English

    Rawad Wehbe writes with an extended critique of the shallow representationalism and tokenization that have marked the orientation of leading Western media spaces towards Palestinian poetry. Rather than engaging with a flourishing new poetics and a rich tradition, establishment publications are all too ready to relegate diversity to one representative—Gazan poet Mosab Abu Toha being…