Taha Muhammad Ali (1931–2011) was born in the Galilee village of Saffuriyya, destroyed during the 1948 war. The owner of a souvenir shop in Nazareth, he was also the author of five books of poetry in Arabic and of So What: New & Selected Poems, 1971–2005. His biography, by Adina Hoffman, is entitled My Happiness Bears No Relation to Happiness: A Poet’s Life in the Palestinian Century.
Photograph by Nina Subin.
WORKS THAT HAVE APPEARED IN NARRATIVE:
- Meeting at an Airport, poetry, in Poems of the Week: 2015–2016
- Tea and Sleep, a narrative outloud - audio, in Spring 2013
- Twigs, poetry, in Poems of the Week: 2009-2010
- Two Poems, poetry, in Poems of the Week: 2008–2009