Harvard Book Store and the Transnational Literature Series welcome Mosab Abu Toha—Palestinian poet, short-story writer, and author of Things You May Find Hidden in My Ear—for a discussion of his new poetry collection Forest of Noise.
Mosab Abu Toha is a Palestinian poet, short-story writer, and essayist from Gaza. He is a former Visiting Scholar in Comp Lit (2020-2021).
His first collection of poetry, Things You May Find Hidden in My Ear, was a finalist for the National Book Critics Circle Award for Poetry and won the Palestine Book Award, the American Book Award, and the Walcott Poetry Prize. Abu Toha is also the founder of the Edward Said Library in Gaza, which he hopes to rebuild. He recently won an Overseas Press Club Award for his “Letter from Gaza” columns for The New Yorker.
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