Sunday, January 11, 2026 at 5:00pm EST
Politics and Prose at 5015 Connecticut Avenue NW
5015 Connecticut Ave NW
Washington, DC 20008
Originally published by Drum & Spear, the publishing arm of the Student Nonviolent Coordinating Committee, Enemy of the Sun: Poetry of Palestinian Resistance links twelve poets working in a poetics of refusal and of hope. Bearing witness to decades of Zionist occupation, to a diaspora exiled in refugee camps and writers held captive in Israeli jails, the collection offers a means to an end: “as poetry, yes it sings—as bullets on a mission; it calls for change.”
In each poem is a whole life—joy, love, beauty, rage, sorrow, suffering—and in each life is a record of resistance: the traces of a people who refuse to leave their homeland, who time and again alchemize grief into principled struggle. In the intertwined histories of this book, and in the unyielding political edge of the poems themselves, is a long story of solidarity between oppressed peoples: from Palestine to South Africa to Algeria to Vietnam to the United States.
Edmund Ghareeb is of Lebanese origin and has traveled widely throughout the Middle East. He earned a degree in political science and history from American International College and an MA and PhD from Georgetown University, before teaching as a professor at American University, University of Virginia, and George Washington University’s Elliott School of International Affairs. He was the editor of Dialog, the graduate journal of Georgetown as well as a frequent interviewer of Arab liberation leaders who visit the United States. He lives in Washington DC.
Ghareeb will be in conversation with Samar Najia, a Palestinian American published poet and writer residing in Virginia. Samar writes about the Palestinian diaspora through the lens of her family and the hidden scars of dispossession. In 2022, she completed a mixed poetry and prose memoir called Journey of a Palestinian Refugee: The Elusive Finish Line, about the repeated displacement of her family. She graduated from Georgetown University and currently works for an international bank by day while advocating for Palestinian human rights by night. Samar is married with two grown sons.
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