Ibtisam Barakat

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Ibtisam Barakat is a Palestinian-American poet, artist, and the author of award-winning books in English and Arabic, including Tasting the Sky: A Palestinian Childhood (FSG) and Balcony on the Moon: Coming of Age in Palestine (FSG/Macmillan). Her most recent book, The Lilac Girl, won the 2020 Sheikh Zayed Book Award.

Jerusalem: A Trilingual Poem
By Naomi Shihab Nye

October 13, 2023 Naomi Shihab Nye
Photo by Yousef Khanfar / www.yousefkhanfar.com. This olive tree in the Al Aqsa compound is believed to be 2,000 years old. I’m not interested in who suffered the most. I’m interested in…
Joy Harjo’s “Eagle Poem” Translated into Arabic

December 11, 2019 Ibtisam Barakat
Photo by Kea Mowat on Unsplash Dear WLT Readers, I am thrilled to offer the following translation of “Eagle Poem” from English to Arabic in honor of poet Joy Harjo who, this year, w…