Enemy of the Sun

Poetry of Palestinian Resistance


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English Age Adult - Adult
208 pages 5.5 x 8.5 吋
Approx. weight: 0.81 lb
Publication date: 18 Feb,2025
Barcode: 9781644214558 Seven Stories Press

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A collection of Palestinian poetry originally published in 1970 that resonates with liberation and civil rights struggles around the world.

This beloved poetry collection was originally published by Drum and Spear, the Student Nonviolent Coordinating Committee (SNCC)’s publishing house and bookstore.

This updated edition for the current generation of activists features new poems translated by Edmund Ghareeb, one of the editors and translators and an internationally recognized Lebanese-American scholar, and a new foreword by Dr. Greg Thomas, Associate Professor of Black Studies and English Literature at Tufts University.


In 1971, in the wake of George Jackson’s killing by San Quentin prison guards, a poem entitled “Enemy of the Sun” was found among ninety-nine books in the revolutionary’s cell. The handwritten poem came to be circulated in Black Panther newspapers under Jackson’s name, assumed to be a vestige of his more than a decade long incarceration. But Jackson never wrote the poem; it was authored by the Palestinian poet Sameeh Al-Qassem and had been included in an anthology of the same title a year before Jackson’s death.

Originally published by Drum & Spear, the publishing arm of the Student Nonviolent Coordinating Committee, Enemy of the Sun: Poetry of Palestinian Resistance links twelve poets working in a poetics of refusal and of hope. Bearing witness to decades of Zionist occupation, to a diaspora exiled in refugee camps and writers held captive in Israeli jails, the collection offers a means to an end: “as poetry, yes it sings—as bullets on a mission; it calls for change.” Poets in the collection include:

  • Sameeh Al-Qassem (1939-2014) is one of Palestine’s most cherished poets whose career spanned decades. He lived in the village of Al Remeh in Galilee. He refused to be drafted into the Israeli army and recited resistance-themed poetry at public village gatherings. It was said that his poetry to his people was “like a lifeboat to a drowning man.”
  • Mahmoud Darweesh (1941-2008) is regarded as Palestine's national poet. His family was expelled from their village of al-Birweh during The Nakba in 1948 and they took refuge in Lebanon. He was imprisoned by the Israeli army many times.

  • Rashed Hussein (1936-1977) was a Palestinian-American poet who published multiple books of poetry and was also popular for his translations of Hebrew poetry to Arabic.

  • Fadwa Touqan (1917-2003) was born into a distinguished Palestinian family, her brother Ibrahim was a well-known Palestinian nationalist poet. In her own work she explored the feminist struggle in patriarchal society, famously linking it to Palestine’s quest for liberation.

  • Tawfiq Zayyad (1929-1997) was a Palestinian poet and a prominent political figure who served as mayor of Nazareth. He was known for integrating his emotionally moving poetry into his poignant political speeches.

In each poem is a whole life—joy, love, beauty, rage, sorrow, suffering—and in each life is a record of resistance: the traces of a people who refuse to leave their homeland, who time and again alchemize grief into principled struggle. In the intertwined histories of this book, and in the unyielding political edge of the poems themselves, is a long story of solidarity between oppressed peoples: from Palestine to South Africa to Algeria to Vietnam to the United States.

Contributors include: Mahmoud Darweesh, Rashed Hussein, Sameeh Al-Qassem, Tawfiq Zayyad, Salem Jubran, Nizar Qabbani, Fadwa Touqan, Arshad Tawfiq, Yusif Hamdan, Abdel Rahman Muhamad Rafie, Hadia Abdul-Hadi, Fawzi Jiryis Abdullah.

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