Najwan Darwish is one of the foremost Arabic-language poets of his generation. He was born in Jerusalem in 1978, exactly thirty years after his family was exiled from their home in the western part of the city. Since the publication of his first collection in 2000, his poetry has met with acclaim across the Arab world. He has published five books, and his Selected Poems, translated into English by Kareem James Abu-Zeid, was published in 2014 by New York Review Books.