@RuthAwad

Lebanese-American author of Set to Music a Wildfire and Outside the Joy (Third Man Books, 2024). 2021 NEA Fellow. Lupus lady. she/her 🇱🇧🇵🇸

 Columbus, OH
thirdmanbooks.com/catalog/outsidethejoy
Joined March 2013
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This is the longest I’ve ever kept a secret. Don’t mind me while I update my bio. Congratulations to my fellow @NEAarts poetry fellows!
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Mosab Abu Toha
@MosabAbuToha6 May 2025
I’m honored to receive the Pulitzer Prize today. Great thanks to the prize’s jury and board members for honoring me. I dedicate this success to my family, friends, teachers, and students in Gaza. Blessings to the 31 members of my family who were killed in one air strike in 2023. Blessings to the souls of my four first cousins, two of whom were killed with their husbands and their children. Blessings to the soul of my great aunt, Fatima, whose “corpse” remains under the rubble of her house since October 2024. Blessings to the graves of my grandparents who I will never find. Blessings to the souls of my students who got killed while looking for food or firewood. To the school where I studied and where I taught, to the library that I founded and to which I added one poetry book before 2023. Blessings to many more, many more. I’m praying for an immediate and permanent ceasefire and JUSTICE and PEACE! 🍓🍓🍓🍓
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Andrew Simon@simongandrew29 Mar 2025
One of many moments in Omar El Akkad’s new book, “One Day, Everyone Will Have Always Been Against This,” that will stop you in your tracks.
There is an impulse in moments like this to appeal to self-interest. To say: These horrors you are allowing to happen, they will come to your doorstep one day; to repeat the famous phrase about who they came for first and who they'll come for next. But this appeal cannot, in matter of fact, work. If the people well served by a system that condones such butchery ever truly believed the same butchery could one day be inflicted on them, they'd tear the system down tomorrow. And anyway, by the time such a thing happens, the rest of us will already be dead. No, there is no terrible thing coming for you in some distant future, but know that a terrible thing is happening to you now. You are being asked to kill off a part of you that would otherwise scream in opposition to injustice. You are being asked to dismantle the machinery of a functioning conscience.

ALT There is an impulse in moments like this to appeal to self-interest. To say: These horrors you are allowing to happen, they will come to your doorstep one day; to repeat the famous phrase about who they came for first and who they'll come for next. But this appeal cannot, in matter of fact, work. If the people well served by a system that condones such butchery ever truly believed the same butchery could one day be inflicted on them, they'd tear the system down tomorrow. And anyway, by the time such a thing happens, the rest of us will already be dead. No, there is no terrible thing coming for you in some distant future, but know that a terrible thing is happening to you now. You are being asked to kill off a part of you that would otherwise scream in opposition to injustice. You are being asked to dismantle the machinery of a functioning conscience.

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Dan Sheehan@danpjsheehan11 Jan 2025
If you’re a professor at Columbia or NYU—tenured or otherwise—it is so important that you continue to voice your outrage at the crackdown on pro-Palestinian speech. If you haven’t spoken up yet, now is the time. This fight is being lost.
Sam Haselby@samhaselby10 Jan 2025
NYU just suspended, for one year, students who participated in a peaceful sit-in demo and Columbia just fired a tenured a law school professor. In both instances because they spoke on behalf of Palestinian rights. This is getting very ugly.
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Assal Rad
@AssalRad4 Jan 2025
Amnesty International: Israel is committing genocide Human Rights Watch: Israel is committing genocide UN Report: Israel is committing genocide Genocide Scholars: Israel is committing genocide Biden: Here’s another $8,000,000,000 for Israel Democrats: Biden is a decent man
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Sana Saeed
@SanaSaeed4 Jan 2025
Don't recall ever holding a book and feeling an immediate surge of tears. A narrator of Palestine, of an unfathomable loss that ultimately snatched him away from us too.
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Dan Sheehan@danpjsheehan4 Jan 2025
I can think of no more perfect image to encapsulate the modern Democratic Party than this sundowning butcher, this lamest of lame ducks, doddering out of the rose garden to press the KILL MORE PALESTINIANS button for the 100th time like it’s a morphine pump in a hospice.
Axios
@axios4 Jan 2025
Scoop: Biden notifies Congress of $8 billion arms sale to Israel trib.al/Adi4c7I

Scoop: Biden notifies Congress of $8 billion arms sale to Israel

It's likely Biden's last arms package for Israel.

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sarah
@sahouraxo23 Dec 2024
“More children have been killed in Gaza in 6 months than the total number of children killed in all other war zones worldwide over 3 years, multiplied by 4.” “Do you hear what I’m saying?” —Norman Finkelstein
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sarah
@sahouraxo24 Dec 2024
Merry Christmas from Palestine 🇵🇸
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兔兒神@chenchenwrites30 Nov 2024
The job of the poet...is to be 'a bane to the republic. Because the republic is built on a destruction of language. A kind of obliteration of language that will enable and excuse violence against bodies. My job is to interrogate and agitate that as often as I can.' Solmaz Sharif
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Camille Rankine@camillerankine17 Nov 2024
Y’all I—
The New Yorker
@NewYorker13 Nov 2024
“Vigil,” by Claudia Rankine. Read it in full: newyorkermag.visitlink.me/zJ…
An excerpt from “Vigil,” by Claudia Rankine.

ALT An excerpt from “Vigil,” by Claudia Rankine.

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Waxwing Magazine@WaxwingMag17 Nov 2024
So late on this but…. Thrilled to announce our BOTN nominations!
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maybe my favorite thing about meeting @RuthAwad was everything!!! her poems!!! her reading of poems, my goodness!!! but also, it was both of us seriously being like…now wtf is indiana
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Omar Sakr
@omarsakrpoet8 Nov 2024
It’s not okay to murder Arab men either, by the way.
BBC News (World)
@BBCWorld8 Nov 2024
Nearly 70% of Gaza war dead are women and children, UN says bbc.in/4fH3RfP

Nearly 70% of Gaza war dead women and children - UN

A UN agency verified victims from a six-month period and said it found international law violations.

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Brooklyn Poets@BrooklynPoets6 Nov 2024
and you’ll heavy the whining floorboards of the house you filled with animals as hurt and lost as you, and the bearded irises will form —#PoetoftheWeek @RuthAwad reads her feature poem "Reasons to Live" soundcloud.com/brooklynpoets…
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Brooklyn Poets@BrooklynPoets4 Nov 2024
but the spray of scorpion grass keeps growing, and the dogs will sing their whole bodies in praise of you, and the redbuds will lay —Our #PoetoftheWeek, @RuthAwad brooklynpoets.org/community/…

Ruth Awad — Brooklyn Poets

Featured for Reading Series

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Brooklyn Poets@BrooklynPoets3 Nov 2024
Join us this week for our Reading Series with Christopher Rey Pérez, @RuthAwad & @Danez_Smif, @BarotRick's book launch, a craft lab fundraiser with @Danez_Smif, drop-ins with @Ramyaramana & @keithwilsonpoet, and free community groups! Learn more at: mailchi.mp/brooklynpoets/thi…
Brooklyn Poets Week of November 4, 2024 THIS WEEK Tuesday 4pm Submission Jam (Free) Wednesday pm Writing Group (Free) Thursday 3pm Poetry Aloud (Free) Friday 1pm Drop-In: The Beauty of a Line w/ Ramya Ramana 3pm Writing Group (Free) 5pm Drop-In (Virtual): A Picture is Worth 1000 Words w/ Keith Wilson 7pm Brooklyn Poets Reading Series featuring Christopher Rey Pérez, Ruth Awad and Danez Smith (doors at 6pm) Saturday 1pm "Personal Machines: Invented Forms": A Craft Lab Fundraiser for the Zaynab Project with Danez Smith 7pm Book Launch: Rick Barot ft. Victoria Chang and Brian Teare (doors at 6pm)

ALT Brooklyn Poets Week of November 4, 2024 THIS WEEK Tuesday 4pm Submission Jam (Free) Wednesday pm Writing Group (Free) Thursday 3pm Poetry Aloud (Free) Friday 1pm Drop-In: The Beauty of a Line w/ Ramya Ramana 3pm Writing Group (Free) 5pm Drop-In (Virtual): A Picture is Worth 1000 Words w/ Keith Wilson 7pm Brooklyn Poets Reading Series featuring Christopher Rey Pérez, Ruth Awad and Danez Smith (doors at 6pm) Saturday 1pm "Personal Machines: Invented Forms": A Craft Lab Fundraiser for the Zaynab Project with Danez Smith 7pm Book Launch: Rick Barot ft. Victoria Chang and Brian Teare (doors at 6pm)

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If you listen to anything today let it be this. I had the pleasure of speaking and having individual meetings with @francesca.albanese two years ago. In her capacity as Special Rapporteur. Everything you, we, are seeing through our screen is 100% her; honest, emphatic, fierce, moral and a staunch supporter for human rights everywhere. All of this answer needs to be heard around the world. All of it: "Israel has conducted an attack, an unprecedented attack....now especially after the Knesset passed a law outlawing Unrwa... This is the nail in the coffin of the UN charter." As someone whose career is dedicated to diplomacy, and has worked for and with the UN. I could not agree more with her words.
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Massive Attack
@MassiveAttackUK1 Nov 2024
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