Asmaa Azaizeh
© Khulood TannousAsmaa Azaizeh is a poet, essayist and cultural manager based in Haifa. She is founder of Poetry Yard independent initiative. In 2010, she received the Debutant Writer Award from Al Qattan Foundation for her volume of poetry Liwa (2011, Alahlia). She has published two other volumes of poetry: As the woman from Lod bore me (2015, Alahlia) and Don’t believe me if I talk of war (2019) in Arabic, Dutch and Swedish. She has also published a bilingual poetry anthology in German and Arabic, Unturned stone (2017, Alahlia). Azaizeh has contributed to and participated in various journals, anthologies and poetry festivals around the world. Her poems have been translated into English, German, French, Persian, Swedish, Spanish, Greek and other languages. Currently, she works as an editor in Raseef22 newspaper. In 2012 she was the first Director of the Mahmoud Darwish Museum in Ramallah. She has worked as a cultural editor in several newspapers, a presenter on TV and radio stations and as the artistic director of the Fattoush gallery in Haifa, where she had also set up an annual book fair.