Yahia Lababidi is the author of sixteen books of poetry, aphorisms, essays and conversations, including :
🩸 If You Cannot Say GENOCIDE
(New Village Press, 2026)
📘 On the Contrary: Wilde and Nietzsche (Fomite Press, 2025)
📗 What Remains To Be Said (Wild Goose Publications, 2025)
🇵🇸 Palestine Wail (Daraja Press, 2024), a love letter to Gaza.
Of Learning to Pray (Kelsay Books, 2021), author and former Newsweek correspondent Carla Power wrote:
“In difficult times, Lababidi’s poems help the reader to summon courage and beauty.”
Featured on PBS NewsHour, Lababidi’s short meditations have been praised by President Obama’s inaugural poet Richard Blanco, who called him:
“The current-day master of the aphorism.”
His Signposts to Elsewhere was named a Book of the Year by The Independent (UK).
An Egyptian-Lebanese writer of conscience and contemplation, Lababidi has spoken at Oxford University, appeared on NPR and been featured in Best American Poetry.
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What to Bring to a #War Protest — Reading from my #peace book, #palestine Wail in Surrey, BC #Canada
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