George Abraham

(they/هو) is a Palestinian American poet, essayist, critic, performance artist. They are the author of When the Arab Apocalypse Comes to America (Haymarket, 2027) and Birthright (Button Poetry, 2020), which won the Arab American Book Award and was a Lambda Literary Award finalist. They are the Editor-at-Large of Mizna, and co-editor of the indy bestseller Homosexual Intifada (Interlink, 2026) and the critically-acclaimed HEAVEN LOOKS LIKE US: Palestinian Poetry (Haymarket, 2025) which was long-listed for the Palestine Book Award. They are a graduate of Northwestern’s Litowitz MFA+MA program, and teach at Amherst College as a Writer-in-Residence.

Poems from When the Arab Apocalypse Comes to America

Poems from When the Arab Apocalypse Comes to America

A new collection folds grief, displacement, and colonial violence into meditations on the personal and political, the human...

4 SEPTEMBER 2026 • By George Abraham
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