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'''Nathalie Handal''' (born 29 July 1969) is a Palestinian-American ], ] and ],
'''Nathalie Handal''' (born ], ]) is a ], ], ] and literary researcher of ] background.<ref name = oneindia >{{cite web |url=http://news.oneindia.in/2006/12/21/nathalie-handal-writer-ambassador-for-wasia.html |title= Nathalie Handal, writer is ambassador for W. Asia|date = 2006-12-21| accessdate=2008-03-29 |publisher= ], oneindia.com}}</ref><ref name = PEN>{{cite web |url=http://www.pen.org/page.php/prmID/1279 |title= Nathalie Handal |accessdate=2008-03-19 |publisher=]}}</ref> She has lived in the United States, the Caribbean, Europe and Latin America.<ref name = Darraj>{{citation|last = Handal| first = Nathalie| year = 2004| contribution = My country, my words:Reflections on a life as a writer| editor-last = Darraj | editor-first = Susan Muaddi | title = Scheherazade's Legacy: Arab and Arab American Women on Writing | publisher = Greenwood Publishing Group| isbn = 0275981762| pages = 37-48}}</ref>
described as a “contemporary Orpheus.” A New Yorker and a quintessential global citizen, she has published 10 prize-winning books, including ''Life in a Country Album.'' She is praised for her “diverse, and innovative body of work.” <ref name="Poetry Foundation - Nathalie Handal"></ref>
<ref>{{cite web | url=https://americanlibraryinparis.org/event/handal21/ | title=The Question of Belonging (Handal) – the American Library in Paris }}</ref><ref name="The Wall Street Journal">{{cite web|url=https://www.wsj.com/articles/nathalie-handal-a-queens-poet-without-borders-1424829515 |title=Ralph Gardner: Nathalie Handal, a Queens Poet Without Borders |publisher=The Wall Street Journal |date= |accessdate=2015-02-24}}</ref><ref>{{cite web |url=http://imeu.net/news/article002665.shtml |title=Nathalie Handal: Poet and playwright |publisher=Institute for Middle East Understanding |accessdate=2014-01-17 |url-status=dead |archiveurl=https://web.archive.org/web/20130714071941/http://imeu.net/news/article002665.shtml |archivedate=2013-07-14 }}</ref><ref name="Nathalie Handal">{{cite web|url=http://www.literati-magazine.com/magazine_features/fall05/readingroom/nathalie-handal.html |title=Nathalie Handal |publisher=Internet Archive Wayback Machine |accessdate=2014-01-17 |url-status=dead |archiveurl=https://web.archive.org/web/20080821103047/http://www.literati-magazine.com/magazine_features/fall05/readingroom/nathalie-handal.html |archivedate=August 21, 2008 }}</ref>


==Biography== ==Biography==
Nathalie Handal is a poet and writer with French and American citizenship and was born in Haiti to a Mediterranean ] family from ].<ref name="Poetry Foundation - Nathalie Handal"/><ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.nathaliehandal.com/pdf/mediaInterviews/MailGuardian.pdf |title=Miracles of the Word |publisher=M&G Friday |date= |accessdate=2014-01-17}}</ref><ref name="Nathalie Handal: Haiti">{{cite web|url=http://www.guernicamag.com/daily/nathalie_handal_haiti/ |title=Nathalie Handal: Haiti |publisher=Guernica: A Magazine of Art & Politics |date= 13 January 2012|accessdate=2014-01-17}}</ref><ref name="“Building an Architecture">{{cite web|url=http://www.worldliteraturetoday.org/2016/may/building-architecture-wanderer-conversation-nathalie-handal-rachel-morgenstern-clarren |title=Rachel Morgenstern-Clarren: Building an Architecture for the Wanderer: A Conversation with Nathalie Handal |publisher=World Literature Today |date= 22 April 2016|accessdate=2016-05-24}}</ref> She has lived in France, Italy, the United States, ], the ], ] and the ]. After earning a ] in ] from ], ] and a MPhil in ] and ] at the ], Handal began writing and translating global literature in the 1990s.<ref name="WP">{{cite news |url=https://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2006/12/20/AR2006122000095.html |title=Arab-American writer is ambassador for Middle East |date=2006-12-20 |accessdate=2011-09-13 |newspaper=Washington Post |first=Andrea |last=Shalal-Esa}}</ref><ref> {{webarchive |url=https://web.archive.org/web/20100823065240/http://www.pifmagazine.com/2001/12/interview-with-nathalie-handal/ |date=August 23, 2010 }}</ref> She currently resides in ], ] and ]<ref name="The Wall Street Journal"/><ref name="Wise">{{cite web|url=http://www.wisemuslimwomen.org/muslimwomen/bio/nathalie_handal/ |title=Muslim Women: Past and Present - Nathalie Handal |publisher=Wisemuslimwomen.org |date=2006-12-20 |accessdate=2013-06-17}}</ref> and teaches at ].<ref name="The Wall Street Journal"/><ref name="“Building an Architecture"/><ref name="Wise"/><ref>{{cite web|author=New York University |url=https://nyuad.nyu.edu/en/academics/divisions/arts-and-humanities/faculty/nathalie-handal.html#Faculty|title=New York University |publisher=nyu.edu |date= |accessdate=2021-09-01}}</ref>
Handal's family hails from from ], but she was born in ] in 1969.<ref name = oneindia/> Her parents who had lived in France, Switzerland and Boston, introduced her to French and Arabic literature.


==Literary career==
Handal began writing creatively in high school, and also acted in plays, danced and sang in school productions. Later, at ], she was introduced to literary journals and magazines, and started writing poetry. She graduated from Simmons with a a ] in English and a ] in ] and Communications. Subsequently, Handal earned a MPhil in ] and ] at ], ], and a ] in ] and ] from ], ].<ref name = literati>{{cite journal |year=2005 |month= Fall |title=Nathalie Handal |journal=Literati Magazine |volume= |issue= |pages= |accessdate=2008-03-19 |url=http://www.literati-magazine.com/magazine_features/fall05/readingroom/nathalie-handal.html }}</ref>
] 2008 in Bethlehem.]]
Handal has authored books of poetry, plays, essays, and has edited two anthologies and has been involved as a writer, director, or producer in several theatrical or film productions. Her work has been translated into over fifteen languages. She is a Lannan Foundation Fellow, Pen International Croatia Fellow, Centro Andaluz de las Letras Fellow, Fondazione di Venezia Fellow, recipient of the Alejo Zuloaga Order in Literature 2011, the AE Ventures Fellowship, an Honored Finalist for the 2009 Gift of Freedom Award, and was shortlisted for New London Writers Awards and The Arts Council of England Writers Awards. Her work has appeared in anthologies and magazines such as ''Vanity Fair,'' ''The New York Times'', ''The Guardian'', ''The Irish Times'', ''World Literature Today'', ''The Virginia Quarterly Review'', ''Poetry New Zealand'', ''Guernica Magazine'', and ''The Nation''.


Her book ''The Lives of Rain'' was shortlisted for the ]<ref name="PEN">{{cite web |url=http://www.pen.org/page.php/prmID/1279 |title=PEN American Center - Nathalie Handal |accessdate=2008-03-19 |publisher=PEN American Center}}</ref> and received the ] Literary Award. ''Love and Strange Horses'' won the 2011 Gold Medal Independent Publisher Book Award (IPPY Award), and was an Honorable Mention at the San Francisco Book Festival and the New England Book Festival. The flash collection ''The Republics'' was called “one of the most inventive books by one of today’s most diverse writers” and is winner of the Virginia Faulkner Award for Excellence in Writing and the Arab American Book Award. And ''Life in a Country Album'' is winner of the Palestine Book Award and a Foreword Indies Book Award finalist.
==Writing career==
Handal has published two anthologies of poems, two books of poetry, and several plays. Her stories and poems have also been anthologized in several literary periodicals.


''The Poetry of Arab Women'', an anthology edited by Handal, introduced several Arabian women poets to a wider audience in the west and is used in several university classes.<ref name =oneindia/> It was an ] bestseller and won the ]. Her book ''The Lives of Rain'' was shortlisted for the ]. Handal has edited the anthology ''The Poetry of Arab Women'', which introduced Arab women poets to a wider audience in the West. It was an ] bestseller, named one of the top 10 Feminist Books by ''The Guardian'', and it won the ]. She co-edited along with ] and ] the anthology ''Language for a New Century: Contemporary Poetry from the Middle East, Asia & Beyond''. She has lectured or been a Visiting Writer at ] in Paris, ], ] in Rome, ] in Beirut, Picador Guest Professor at ], Germany, and professor at ]<ref>{{cite web|author=Columbia University |url=http://www.columbia.edu/cu/cser/about.html#Faculty|title=Columbia University |publisher=columbia.edu |date= |accessdate=2013-06-17}}</ref>
and part of the Low-Residency MFA faculty at ].<ref>{{cite web|author=Sierra Nevada College |url=http://www.sierranevada.edu/index.php?id=1649#handal |title=Sierra Nevada University |publisher=Sierranevada.edu |date= |accessdate=2013-06-17}}</ref> Handal is currently a professor at ] and a Visiting Writer at ].


She writes the literary travel column, "The City and the Writer," for Words Without Borders magazines,<ref>{{cite web |last=Handal |first=Nathalie |url=http://wordswithoutborders.org/dispatches/article/new-blog-series-nathalie-handals-the-city-and-the-writer/ |title=New Blog Series: Nathalie Handal's 'The City and the Writer' |date=2010-09-22 |work=Words Without Borders |accessdate=2011-09-13}}</ref> and "Eat: Everywhere a Tale," for Popula.<ref>{{cite web |last=Handal |first=Nathalie |url=https://popula.com/category/eat-everywhere-a-tale/|title=Eat: Everywhere a Tale|date=2018-07-19 |work=Popula |accessdate=2018-07-19}}</ref>
She has given lectures on ] at the ] in ].


==Bibliography== ==Publications==
;Poetry ;Poetry
* ''The Lives of Rain'' * ''The Neverfield Poem'' (1999)<ref name="KC"/>
* ''The Neverfield Poem'' * ''The Lives of Rain'' (2005)<ref name="KC"/>
* ''Love and Strange Horses'' (University of Pittsburgh Press, 2010)
* ''The Poetry of Arab Women'' (Editor)
* ''Poet in Andalucía'' (University of Pittsburgh Press, 2012){{Citation needed|date=September 2011}}
* ''Language for a New Century'' (Editor)
* ''The Invisible Star/La estrella invisible'' (Valparaíso Ediciones, 2014)
* ''The Republics'' (University of Pittsburgh Press, 2015)
* ''Life in a Country Album'' (University of Pittsburgh Press, 2019)
* ''Volo'' (Diode Editions, chapbook 2022)

;Poetry / Foreign Publications
* ''Las horas suspendidas: poemas escogidos'' (Valparaíso Ediciones, 2012)
* ''Poeta en Andalucía'' (Visor, España, 2013)
* ''La estrella invisible'' (Valparaíso Ediciones, 2014)
* ''Riflessi, Artist Book, Illustrazioni di Lucio Schiavo'' (Damocle Edizioni, Venezia, 2016)
* ''Pjesnik u Andaluziji'' (Druga prica, Zagreb, 2017)
* ''التّلحمية Al-Talhamiyah'' (Jordan, 2017)
* ''Canto Mediterraneo'' (Ronzani Editore, Italia, 2018)
* ''Le vite della pioggia'' (Iacobelli Editore, Roma, Italia, 2018)
* ''Poet in Andalucia - Arabic'' (Takween, Damascus, 2019)
* ''Life in A Country Album - UK'' (flipped eye, United Kingdom 2020)
* ''Selected Poems: 2005-2019'' (Fawasel Publishing House, Syria, 2022)
* ''De l'amour des étranges chevaux'' (Mémoire Encrier, Montreal and Paris, 03/03/2023)

;Anthologies
* ''The Poetry of Arab Women'' (2001, ed. by Handal)<ref name="KC"/>
* ''Language for a New Century: Contemporary Poetry from the Middle East, Asia & Beyond'' (W.W. Norton, 2008, ed. by Handal, Tina Chang and Ravi Shankar)<ref name="KC"/>


;Plays ;Plays
* ''Between Our Lips''<ref name="T&F">{{cite web |url=http://www.nathaliehandal.com/theatreAndFilm.htm |title=Nathalie Handal: Theatre and Film |publisher=Nathalie Handal |accessdate=2011-09-13 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20111003101146/http://www.nathaliehandal.com/theatreAndFilm.htm |archive-date=2011-10-03 |url-status=dead }}</ref>
* ''Between Our Lips''
* ''La Cosa Dei Sogni''<ref name="T&F"/>
* ''The Details of Silence''
* ''The Oklahoma Quartet'' * ''The Stonecutters''<ref name="T&F"/>
* ''The Stonecutters'' * ''The Details of Silence''<ref name = PEN/>
* ''The Oklahoma Quartet''<ref>{{cite web |url=http://inclusioninthearts.org/projects/middle-eastern-american-theatre-history-playwrights-and-plays/ |title=Middle Eastern American Theatre: History, Playwrights and Plays |last=Hill |first=Holly |year=2009 |publisher=Alliance for Inclusion in the Arts |accessdate=2011-09-13}}</ref>
* ''The Details of Silence''
* ''La Cosa Dei Sogni'' * ''Hakawatiyeh''
* ''Men in Verse''<ref name="Bush-66Writers">{{cite web |url=http://www.bushtheatre.co.uk/biography/writers/ |title=Writers |publisher=The Alternative Theatre Company Ltd (The Bush Theatre) |accessdate=2011-09-13 |url-status=dead |archiveurl=https://web.archive.org/web/20110704090950/http://www.bushtheatre.co.uk/biography/writers/ |archivedate=2011-07-04 }}</ref><ref name="Bush-66Books">{{cite web |url=http://www.bushtheatre.co.uk/sixtysix/ |title=Sixty-Six Books |publisher=The Alternative Theatre Company Ltd (The Bush Theatre) |accessdate=2011-09-13 |url-status=dead |archiveurl=https://web.archive.org/web/20120510062223/http://www.bushtheatre.co.uk/sixtysix/ |archivedate=2012-05-10 }}</ref><ref>{{cite web |url=http://www.bushtheatre.co.uk/sixtysix/writers/bio/nathalie-handal |title=Nathalie Handal: Men in Verse in response to 2 John |publisher=The Alternative Theatre Company Ltd (The Bush Theatre) |accessdate=2011-09-27 |url-status=dead |archiveurl=https://web.archive.org/web/20111001225757/http://www.bushtheatre.co.uk/sixtysix/writers/bio/nathalie-handal |archivedate=2011-10-01 }}</ref>
*

;Prose (creative nonfiction, fiction)
*“The Night and Nightingale" ], March 2017<ref>{{cite web|url=https://www.guernicamag.com/the-night-and-nightingale/|title=The Night and Nightingale |date=March 2017|publisher=Guernica Magazine |accessdate=2017-03-01}}</ref>
*“My East in Venice" ], April 2017<ref>{{cite web|url=https://www.guernicamag.com/my-east-in-venice/|title=My East in Venice |date=April 2017|publisher=Guernica Magazine |accessdate=2017-04-03}}</ref>
*“After Kaddish" ], September 2018<ref>{{cite web|url=https://www.guernicamag.com/after-kaddish/|title=After Kaddish |date=September 2018|publisher=Guernica Magazine |accessdate=2018-09-27}}</ref>

;CDs ;CDs
* ''Traveling Rooms''<ref name="KC">{{cite web|url=http://www.kennedy-center.org/programs/millennium/artist_detail.cfm?artist_id=HNDLNTHLIE|title=Nathalie Handal|publisher=]|accessdate=2009-05-15|url-status=dead|archiveurl=https://web.archive.org/web/20090214223940/http://kennedy-center.org/programs/millennium/artist_detail.cfm?artist_id=HNDLNTHLIE|archivedate=2009-02-14}}</ref>
* ''Traveling Rooms'' (1999) (collaboration with Russian musicians ] and ])
* ''Spell''<ref name="KC"/>
* ''Spell'' (collaboration with Egyptian musician ])


;Interviews and Reviews
;Essays
* at Progressive.org * "Mahmoud Darwish: Palestine's Poet of Exile", '']'', May 2002<ref>{{cite web |url=http://progressive.org/node/1575 |title=Mahmoud Darwish: Palestine's Poet of Exile |last=Handal |first=Nathalie |date=May 2002 |work=] |accessdate=2011-09-13 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20110927212014/http://progressive.org/node/1575 |archive-date=2011-09-27 |url-status=dead }}</ref>
*"Shades of a Bridge's Breath", ''This bridge we call home: radical visions for transformation'', eds. Gloria E. Anzaldúa and Analouise Keating (Routledge, 2002). {{ISBN|0-415-93682-9}}
*"Sisterhood of Hope", interview with Zainab Salbi, ''Saudi Aramco World'', September/October 2010<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.saudiaramcoworld.com/issue/201005/sisterhood.of.hope.htm |title=Sisterhood of Hope |work=Saudi Aramco World |publisher=Aramco Services Company |accessdate=2011-09-13}}</ref>
*"We Are All Going to Die", interview with Edwidge Dandicat, Guernica Magazine, January 2011<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.guernicamag.com/interviews/2272/danticat_1_15_11/ |title=We Are All Going to Die |date=January 2011 |publisher=Guernica Magazine |accessdate=2011-09-13}}</ref>
*"The Other Face of Silence", interview with Elia Suleiman, ], May 2011<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.guernicamag.com/interviews/2628/suleiman_5_1_11/ |title=The Other Face of Silence |date=May 2011 |publisher=Guernica Magazine |accessdate=2011-09-13}}</ref>
*"Not Quite Invisible", Nathalie Handal interviews Mark Strand, ], April 2012<ref>{{cite web|author=Virtua Design |url=http://www.guernicamag.com/interviews/not-quite-invisible |title=Not Quite Invisible, Nathalie Handal Interviews Mark Strand - Guernica / A Magazine of Art & Politics |publisher=Guernicamag.com |date= 15 April 2012|accessdate=2013-06-17}}</ref>
*"Against the Line", interview with Jonathan Galassi, ], June 2012<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.guernicamag.com/interviews/against-the-line/|title=Against the Line |date=June 2012 |publisher=Guernica Magazine |accessdate=2012-06-01}}</ref>
*“Elisa Biagini: A World Reinvented Through Poetry,” ], February 7, 2014<ref>{{cite web|url=https://www.guernicamag.com/daily/elisa-biagini-a-world-reinvented-through-poetry/|title=Elisa Biagini: A World Reinvented Through Poetry |date=February 2014 |publisher=Guernica Magazine |accessdate=2014-07-02}}</ref>
*“Kareem James Abu-Zeid: A Search for Justice and Expansive Identities," ], August 2014<ref>{{cite web|url=https://www.guernicamag.com/daily/kareem-james-abu-zeid-a-search-for-justice-and-expansive-identities/|title=Kareem James Abu-Zeid: A Search for Justice and Expansive Identities |date=August 2014|publisher=Guernica Magazine |accessdate=2014-08-21}}</ref>
*“Isabella Hammad's The Parisian", ], May 7, 2019<ref>{{cite web|url=https://electricliterature.com/the-parisian-weaves-family-stories-and-palestinian-history-into-a-debut-novel/|title=The Parisian" Weaves Family Stories and Palestinian History Into a Debut Novel |date=May 7, 2019 |accessdate=2019-05-07}}</ref>
*“Introduction to Edwidge Danticat", ], September 2019<ref>{{cite web|url=https://www.92y.org/archives/edwidge-danticat-everything-inside-ann-patchett-the-dutch-house|title=Edwidge Danticat and Ann Patchett Reading |date=September 25, 2019 |accessdate=2019-09-25}}</ref>
*“Awam Amkpa: What’s Missing Will be Found," ], October 2024<ref>{{cite web|
url=https://www.guernicamag.com/awam-amkpa-whats-missing-will-be-found/|title=Awam Amkpa: What’s Missing Will be Found |date=October 2024|publisher=Guernica Magazine |accessdate=2024-10-27}}</ref>


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American writer
Nathalie Handal
Born (1969-07-29) 29 July 1969 (age 55)
Haiti
Occupation
NationalityFrench, American
Alma materBennington College, University of London
Notable worksLove and Strange Horses, Poet in Andalucía, The Republics, Life in a Country Album
Notable awardsLannan Foundation Fellow, Gold Medal Independent Publisher Book Award, PEN Oakland Josephine Miles Literary Award, Virginia Faulkner Award for Excellence in Writing
Website
www.nathaliehandal.com

Nathalie Handal (born 29 July 1969) is a Palestinian-American poet, writer and professor, described as a “contemporary Orpheus.” A New Yorker and a quintessential global citizen, she has published 10 prize-winning books, including Life in a Country Album. She is praised for her “diverse, and innovative body of work.”

Biography

Nathalie Handal is a poet and writer with French and American citizenship and was born in Haiti to a Mediterranean Palestinian family from Bethlehem. She has lived in France, Italy, the United States, Latin America, the Caribbean, Asia and the Arab world. After earning a MFA in Creative Writing from Bennington College, Vermont and a MPhil in English and Drama at the University of London, Handal began writing and translating global literature in the 1990s. She currently resides in New York City, Rome and Paris and teaches at New York University.

Literary career

Handal with Roddy Doyle and Andrew O'Hagan at PalFest 2008 in Bethlehem.

Handal has authored books of poetry, plays, essays, and has edited two anthologies and has been involved as a writer, director, or producer in several theatrical or film productions. Her work has been translated into over fifteen languages. She is a Lannan Foundation Fellow, Pen International Croatia Fellow, Centro Andaluz de las Letras Fellow, Fondazione di Venezia Fellow, recipient of the Alejo Zuloaga Order in Literature 2011, the AE Ventures Fellowship, an Honored Finalist for the 2009 Gift of Freedom Award, and was shortlisted for New London Writers Awards and The Arts Council of England Writers Awards. Her work has appeared in anthologies and magazines such as Vanity Fair, The New York Times, The Guardian, The Irish Times, World Literature Today, The Virginia Quarterly Review, Poetry New Zealand, Guernica Magazine, and The Nation.

Her book The Lives of Rain was shortlisted for the Agnes Lynch Starrett Poetry Prize and received the Menada Literary Award. Love and Strange Horses won the 2011 Gold Medal Independent Publisher Book Award (IPPY Award), and was an Honorable Mention at the San Francisco Book Festival and the New England Book Festival. The flash collection The Republics was called “one of the most inventive books by one of today’s most diverse writers” and is winner of the Virginia Faulkner Award for Excellence in Writing and the Arab American Book Award. And Life in a Country Album is winner of the Palestine Book Award and a Foreword Indies Book Award finalist.

Handal has edited the anthology The Poetry of Arab Women, which introduced Arab women poets to a wider audience in the West. It was an Academy of American Poets bestseller, named one of the top 10 Feminist Books by The Guardian, and it won the PEN Oakland/Josephine Miles Literary Award. She co-edited along with Tina Chang and Ravi Shankar the anthology Language for a New Century: Contemporary Poetry from the Middle East, Asia & Beyond. She has lectured or been a Visiting Writer at La Sorbonne in Paris, Ca' Foscari University of Venice, John Cabot in Rome, The American University in Beirut, Picador Guest Professor at Leipzig University, Germany, and professor at Columbia University and part of the Low-Residency MFA faculty at Sierra Nevada University. Handal is currently a professor at New York University and a Visiting Writer at The American University of Rome.

She writes the literary travel column, "The City and the Writer," for Words Without Borders magazines, and "Eat: Everywhere a Tale," for Popula.

Publications

Poetry
  • The Neverfield Poem (1999)
  • The Lives of Rain (2005)
  • Love and Strange Horses (University of Pittsburgh Press, 2010)
  • Poet in Andalucía (University of Pittsburgh Press, 2012)
  • The Invisible Star/La estrella invisible (Valparaíso Ediciones, 2014)
  • The Republics (University of Pittsburgh Press, 2015)
  • Life in a Country Album (University of Pittsburgh Press, 2019)
  • Volo (Diode Editions, chapbook 2022)
Poetry / Foreign Publications
  • Las horas suspendidas: poemas escogidos (Valparaíso Ediciones, 2012)
  • Poeta en Andalucía (Visor, España, 2013)
  • La estrella invisible (Valparaíso Ediciones, 2014)
  • Riflessi, Artist Book, Illustrazioni di Lucio Schiavo (Damocle Edizioni, Venezia, 2016)
  • Pjesnik u Andaluziji (Druga prica, Zagreb, 2017)
  • التّلحمية Al-Talhamiyah (Jordan, 2017)
  • Canto Mediterraneo (Ronzani Editore, Italia, 2018)
  • Le vite della pioggia (Iacobelli Editore, Roma, Italia, 2018)
  • Poet in Andalucia - Arabic (Takween, Damascus, 2019)
  • Life in A Country Album - UK (flipped eye, United Kingdom 2020)
  • Selected Poems: 2005-2019 (Fawasel Publishing House, Syria, 2022)
  • De l'amour des étranges chevaux (Mémoire Encrier, Montreal and Paris, 03/03/2023)
Anthologies
  • The Poetry of Arab Women (2001, ed. by Handal)
  • Language for a New Century: Contemporary Poetry from the Middle East, Asia & Beyond (W.W. Norton, 2008, ed. by Handal, Tina Chang and Ravi Shankar)
Plays
  • Between Our Lips
  • La Cosa Dei Sogni
  • The Stonecutters
  • The Details of Silence
  • The Oklahoma Quartet
  • Hakawatiyeh
  • Men in Verse
Prose (creative nonfiction, fiction)
CDs
  • Traveling Rooms
  • Spell
Interviews and Reviews
  • "Mahmoud Darwish: Palestine's Poet of Exile", The Progressive, May 2002
  • "Shades of a Bridge's Breath", This bridge we call home: radical visions for transformation, eds. Gloria E. Anzaldúa and Analouise Keating (Routledge, 2002). ISBN 0-415-93682-9
  • "Sisterhood of Hope", interview with Zainab Salbi, Saudi Aramco World, September/October 2010
  • "We Are All Going to Die", interview with Edwidge Dandicat, Guernica Magazine, January 2011
  • "The Other Face of Silence", interview with Elia Suleiman, Guernica Magazine, May 2011
  • "Not Quite Invisible", Nathalie Handal interviews Mark Strand, Guernica Magazine, April 2012
  • "Against the Line", interview with Jonathan Galassi, Guernica Magazine, June 2012
  • “Elisa Biagini: A World Reinvented Through Poetry,” Guernica Magazine, February 7, 2014
  • “Kareem James Abu-Zeid: A Search for Justice and Expansive Identities," Guernica Magazine, August 2014
  • “Isabella Hammad's The Parisian", Electric Literature, May 7, 2019
  • “Introduction to Edwidge Danticat", 92Y, September 2019
  • “Awam Amkpa: What’s Missing Will be Found," Guernica Magazine, October 2024

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