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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.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p style=\"direction: ltr;\">Translation editor: Fardus Habib Allah<\/p>\n<p style=\"direction: ltr;\">Literary editor: Shoham Smith<\/p>\n<p style=\"direction: ltr;\">Copy editor: Amira Binyamini-Nevo<\/p>\n<p style=\"direction: ltr;\">Cover: Faten Jarrous Giryes<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>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\u2019t a person float when they are alive and drown when they are dead? &nbsp; This anthology of poems is by the Palestinian-Syrian poet Ghayath Almadhoun, born in 1979. 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