Local Community Experiences of Displacement from Syria: Views from Lebanon, Jordan and Turkey
On the 28th and 29th of June 2019, Refugee Hosts’ Writer in Residence, Yousif M. Qasmiyeh, will be contributing to the World Conference on Statelessness in The Hague. In addition to speaking and reading his poetry at the panel on ‘Citizenship in Unrecognised States’ on 28th of June, Yousif will be participating in a series…
Arabic Stories and Poetry in Translation is a series of workshops held at Birkbeck, University of London and SOAS. Refugee Host’s writer in residence, Yousif M. Qasmiyeh, will join author Selma Dabbagh, a British Palestinian fiction writer, to lead a workshop exploring issues that face writers and artists ‘when they voice the world of Arabic…
This Saturday 09 June 2018 10:30-11:45, Refugee Hosts Writer in Residence Yousif M. Qasmiyeh and Prof. Matthew Reynolds (University of Oxford) will lead a workshop on translation, poetry and Arabic. In addition to drawing on Yousif’s work created as part of the Refugee Hosts project, it will involve a close analysis of poems and drafts…
Refugee Hosts’ Writer in Residence, the Palestinian poet and translator Yousif M. Qasmiyeh, is interviewed by The Beacon’s Adam Mazarelo. They discuss issues surrounding identity, the politics of space and architecture and narratives as they relate to refugees and refugee camps, and, in particular, their relation to Yousif’s home camp of Baddawi in North Lebanon. You…
SOFTER: Jenny Holzer at Blenheim Palace (28 September – 31 December 2017) The poetry of Refugee Hosts’ Writer in Residence Yousif M. Qasmiyeh will feature in a forthcoming exhibition by American artist Jenny Holzer. Yousif’s work, which you can read more of here, will be projected across the facade of Blenheim Palace as part of a…
In March, Refugee Hosts’ Writer in Residence Yousif M. Qasmiyeh’s poem “If this is my face, so be it” (published in Modern Poetry in Translation in 2016) was exhibited as part of Jenny Holzer’s major light projection show in Aarhus, Denmark. The art installation was part of the Aarhus’ 2017 Capital of Culture celebrations, and…
In this piece, which is a re-posting from the Asymptote blog, Theophilus Kwek interviews the Refugee Hosts writer in residence Yousif M. Qasmiyeh about his work, and the themes of displacement, exile and belonging that inform his poetry and writing. Read Yousif’s poetry for the Refugee Hosts project here. Q&A with Yousif M. Qasmiyeh By…
Refugee Hosts is delighted to announce that ‘Writing the Camp,‘ the poetry collection written by Yousif M. Qasmiyeh during his work as the Refugee Hosts Writer-in-Residence, has been shortlisted for the Royal Society of Literature Ondaatje Prize 2022. The RSL Ondaatje Prize is awarded by the RSL to ‘an outstanding work of fiction, non-fiction or poetry that…
Writing the Camp – the poetry collection written by Yousif M. Qasmiyeh during his work as the Refugee Hosts Writer-in-Residence – has been selected as one of the Best Poetry Books of 2021 by The Irish Times, with Seán Hewitt praising it as a “vital sequence of poems… a remarkable collection.” Writing the Camp was…
Writing the Camp – the poetry collection written by Yousif M. Qasmiyeh during his work as the Refugee Hosts Writer-in-Residence – has been Highly Commended by this year’s Forward Prizes, building on the collection having been selected as The Poetry Book Society‘s Spring 2021 Recommendation earlier this year, and named as one of ‘the best…
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