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NASEER H. ARURI (1934-2015) graduated from American International College and received his doctorate from the University of Massachusetts, where he later taught. His specialty was in the fields of Middle East governments and politics, international studies, and American government and foreign policy. He taught at Southeastern Massachusetts University and traveled extensively as a researcher throughout the Middle East. 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. A native of Southeast, Washington DC, GREG THOMAS teaches Black Studies and Literature in English at Howard University. He is author of The Sexual Demon of Colonial Power- Pan-African Embodiment and Erotic Schemes of Empire as well as Hip-Hop Revolution in the Flesh- Power, Knowledge and Pleasure in Lil' Kim's Lyricism. His many articles and essays appear in a wide variety of academic and other periodicals. Currently, he is completing a book on the writings of George Jackson and continuing to curate the traveling ""George Jackson in the Sun of Palestine"" exhibition, which first opened in October 2015 at the museum of the Abu Jihad Center for the Political Captive's Movement in the West Bank. Its most recent mounting was in Gaza City. Contributors include- Mahmoud Darweesh, Rashed Hussein, Sameeh Al-Qassem, Tawfiq Zayyad, Salem Jubran, Nizar Qabbani, Fadwa Touqan, Arshad Tawfiq, Yusif Hamdan, Abdel Rahman Muhamad Rafie, Hadia Abdul-Hadi, Fawzi Jiryis Abdullah.
""From the moment Enemy of the Sun came into my life many years ago, as a tattered, well-worn book passed down from one radical organizer to the next, it reframed my ideas on what resistance writing could be, or could look like. These poems are overflowing with resilience and a power rooted in opposition, but there is also immense beauty. A celebration of that which some would consider quotidian, but that which we must understand as not small, not unworthy. These are poems of survival and survivors, and they are not only teeming with sorrow and rage, they are also, thankfully, teeming with life."" —Hanif Abdurraqib, author of They Can't Kill Us Until They Kill Us and There's Always This Year ""The revitalization of this critical anthology reintroduces readers to powerful voices that have shaped Palestinian resistance literature. Rooted in defiance, refusal, and the pursuit of liberation in the face of ongoing occupation, these poems are essential reading for anyone seeking to engage with the global struggle for justice and the rights of oppressed peoples everywhere."" —Noor Hindi, author of Dear God. Dear Bones. Dear Yellow. and “Fuck Your Lecture on Craft, My People Are Dying"" “With a generous new preface by Greg Thomas that situates this project’s disappearance out of print within ongoing imperial backlash against Black and Palestinian radical artistic traditions, this restored edition returns us to a north star that has guided contemporary liberation-oriented poetics for many years. As Palestinians face one of our darkest moments in history, with escalating Zionist-US genocide, this book returns to us, honoring Aruri and Ghareeb’s labor alongside our great writers like Fadwa Touqan, Rashed Hussein, and Sameeh Al-Qassem, whose words have taught us life. There has never been a more urgent need for a book like Enemy of the Sun.” —George Abraham, executive editor at Mizna and author of Birthright ""This book is a treasure. Much like the desired object of fabled seafarers, this precious trove has been unearthed and repackaged for our intellectual and spiritual enrichment. Its contents bridge the past and the present, blurring the space of time with the constant thirst for freedom. The poets’ stanzas, sharp like knives, command us to stand tall, to revere the land, to look one another in the eye, speak plainly, and to resist like our lives depend on it. Each poem an opportunity to transform and a multitude of poems to change the world."" —Noura Erakat, author of Justice for Some: Law and the Question of Palestine and professor at Rutgers University, New Brunswick
