Several years ago I had the wonderful opportunity to travel through Israel and the West Bank to talk to Palestinian and Israeli poets. Among the remarkable writers I met there and the one who made the ...

Sadness is a persistent theme in So What, the first major American publication of the Palestinian poet Taha Muhammad Ali. While American poets hardly avoid the subject of sadness, the word itself has ...

Last night, at the CUNY Graduate Center, Adina Hoffman, the author of “My Happiness Bears No Relation to Happiness,” a new biography of the Palestinian poet Taha Muhammad Ali, flashed, on the wall, a ...

A man accused of fatally striking a woman with a car and driving off in Manassas, Virginia, last month is now facing charges for two additional crimes in Montgomery County, Maryland, police said ...

Taha Muhammad Ali was born in 1931 in the Galilee village of Saffuriya. After fleeing to Lebanon during the Arab-Israeli war of 1948, Muhammad Ali and his family settled in Nazareth where they have ...