Arab American poet, essayist, and aphorist Yahia Lababidi has written 16 books, including “Palestine Wail,” “What Remains to Be Said,” and the forthcoming “Wherever You Are: Essays From East to West.” His work has appeared in Liberties, Salmagundi, The New Statesman, The Threepenny Review, World Literature Today, and has been translated into more than a dozen languages.
Writing, Lababidi has said, came to him almost against his will. Though raised among artists and thinkers, it was only while attending George Washington University in Washington, that he began to recognize he had something to contribute to literature.
