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Ammiel Alcalay

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Contributor

Ammiel Alcalay

Poet, novelist, translator, essayist, critic, and scholar Ammiel Alcalay’s over 20 books include After Jews and Arabs (University of Minnesota Press, 1992), Memories of Our Future (City Lights, 2001), and two forthcoming books, CONTROLLED DEMOLITION: a work in four books (Litmus Press), and Follow the Person: Archival Encounters (punctum books).

Articles by Ammiel Alcalay

Illustration of golden crescent moon and stars on a blue but cloudy night

See page for author, Public domain, via Wikimedia Commons

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By Nasser Rabah

Palestinian writer Nasser Rabah pens a poem of longing, retreat, and stolen dreams.

Translated from Arabic by Emna Zghal, Khaled al-Hilli & Ammiel Alcalay

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First Read—From “Querido Pablito / Julissimo Querido: Selected Correspondence, 1950–1971”

By Paul Blackburn & Julio Cortázar

Edited and Translated by Ammiel Alcalay, Jacqueline Cornetta, Alison Macomber, and Alexander SoriaThe following is excerpted from Querido Pablito / Julissimo Querido: Selected Correspondence, 1950–1971,…

Translated by Ammiel Alcalay, Jacqui Cornetta, Alison Macomber & Alexander Soria

The Other Body / The Other Home

Migration is another name for exile made gentler by the alphabet.

Translated from Arabic by Ammiel Alcalay & Kamal Boullata

From “Outcast”

By Shimon Ballas

How can one explain that which goes beyond logic? In the dream I was asked to read something and I couldn't.

Translated from Hebrew by Ammiel Alcalay

At Home in Exile: An Interview with Shimon Ballas

This interview appeared in slightly different form in Keys to the Garden: New Israeli Writing, edited and translated by Ammiel Alcalay (San Francisco: City Lights, 1996).Ammiel Alcalay: Starting with…

Translated from Hebrew by Ammiel Alcalay