May God curse physics

Why do the migrants drown and float on the water after they have breathed

Their last?

Why not the reverse?

Why doesn’t a person float when they are alive and drown when they are dead?

This anthology of poems is by the Palestinian-Syrian poet Ghayath Almadhoun, born in 1979. The anthology has been termed a poetic manifesto on refugeeism that ranges from questions of homeland, the situation in Syria, to the Arab diaspora in Europe. This volume includes a selection of his poems translated for the first time into Hebrew.

Translation editor: Fardus Habib Allah

Literary editor: Shoham Smith

Copy editor: Amira Binyamini-Nevo

Cover: Faten Jarrous Giryes