{"product_id":"enemy-of-the-sun-poetry-of-palestinian-resistance-paperback","title":"Enemy of the Sun: Poetry of Palestinian Resistance - Paperback","description":"\u003cdiv\u003e\u003cp style=\"text-align: right;\"\u003e\u003ca href=\"https:\/\/reportcopyrightinfringement.com\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow\"\u003e\u003cb\u003eReport copyright infringement\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/a\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003c\/div\u003e\u003cp\u003eby \u003cb\u003eNaseer Aruri\u003c\/b\u003e (Editor), \u003cb\u003eEdmund Ghareeb\u003c\/b\u003e (Editor)\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eA collection of Palestinian poetry originally published in 1970 that resonates with liberation and civil rights struggles around the world. \u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eThis updated edition for the current generation of activists features new poems translated by Edmund Ghareeb, an internationally recognized Lebanese American scholar, and a new foreword by Dr. Greg Thomas. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eIn 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. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eOriginally published by Drum \u0026amp; Spear, the publishing arm of the Student Nonviolent Coordinating Committee, \u003ci\u003eEnemy of the Sun: Poetry of Palestinian Resistance\u003c\/i\u003e 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.\" \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eIn 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.\u003ch3\u003eAuthor Biography\u003c\/h3\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eNASEER H. ARURI\u003c\/b\u003e (1934-2015) graduated from American International College and received his doctorate from the University of Massachusetts, where he later taught. His specialty was in the fields of Middle East governments and politics, international studies, and American government and foreign policy. He taught at Southeastern Massachusetts University and traveled extensively as a researcher throughout the Middle East. \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cb\u003eEDMUND GHAREEB\u003c\/b\u003e is of Lebanese origin and has traveled widely throughout the Middle East. He earned a degree in political science and history from American International College and an MA and PhD from Georgetown University, before teaching as a professor at American University, University of Virginia, and George Washington University's Elliott School of International Affairs. He was the editor of \u003ci\u003eDialog\u003c\/i\u003e, the graduate journal of Georgetown as well as a frequent interviewer of Arab liberation leaders who visit the United States. He lives in Washington DC. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eA native of Southeast, Washington DC, \u003cb\u003eGREG THOMAS \u003c\/b\u003eteaches Black Studies and Literature in English at Howard University. He is author of \u003ci\u003eThe Sexual Demon of Colonial Power: Pan-African Embodiment and Erotic Schemes of Empire\u003c\/i\u003e as well as \u003ci\u003eHip-Hop Revolution in the Flesh: Power, Knowledge and Pleasure in Lil' Kim's Lyricism\u003c\/i\u003e. His many articles and essays appear in a wide variety of academic and other periodicals. Currently, he is completing a book on the writings of George Jackson and continuing to curate the traveling \"George Jackson in the Sun of Palestine\" exhibition, which first opened in October 2015 at the museum of the Abu Jihad Center for the Political Captive's Movement in the West Bank. Its most recent mounting was in Gaza City. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cb\u003eContributors include: \u003c\/b\u003e 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.\n            \u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eNumber of Pages:\u003c\/strong\u003e 272\u003c\/div\u003e\n            \u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eDimensions:\u003c\/strong\u003e 0.9 x 8.2 x 5.4 IN\u003c\/div\u003e\n            \u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003ePublication Date:\u003c\/strong\u003e September 16, 2025\u003c\/div\u003e\n            ","brand":"BooksCloud","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":51978247897389,"sku":"9781644214558","price":20.15,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0938\/3185\/6429\/files\/VhII5WmQ3n9781644214558.webp?v=1775801247","url":"https:\/\/ishookbooks.com\/products\/enemy-of-the-sun-poetry-of-palestinian-resistance-paperback","provider":"iShook Books","version":"1.0","type":"link"}