Love and Resistance: Poems - Paperback

Qabbani, Nizar: - Nizar Qabbani was a diplomat, poet, and publisher whose work approached the sensitive subjects of eroticism, feminism, Arab nationalism, love, and religion. Much of his poetry speaks of the imprisonment that Arab society imposes on its women. Many of his political poems about Syria liken the country's colonization by France to the situation of Arab women.Bitar, Rana: - Rana Bitar is a Syrian-American physician, poet, and writer. She holds a master's degree in English and Creative Writing from Southern New Hampshire University. Her memoir, The Long Tale of Tears and Smiles, was published by Global Collective Publishers in August 2021.Bensen, Robert: - Robert Bensen is a poet, essayist, teacher, editor, and publisher in Upstate New York. Most recent among seven collections of poetry are What Lightning Spoke and Before, Orenoque, Wetumka & Other Poems (Bright Hill Press). Poetry and literary essays have appeared in AGNI, Akwe: kon, Antioch Review, Berfrois, Callaloo, The Caribbean Writer, Jamaica Journal, La presa, The Paris Review, Ploughshares, Poetry Wales, and elsewhere. He has edited anthologies of Native American and Caribbean literature, and authored a bibliographic study, American Indian and Aboriginal Canadian Childhood Studies, at Oxford University Press online.