If I Must Die - Atef Alshaer

Atef Alshaer is a Reader in Arabic Studies at the University of Westminster. He grew up in Gaza, and was educated at Birzeit University in Palestine, and SOAS (University of London), where he obtained his PhD and taught for several years. He is the author of several publications in the fields of literature, language and politics, including Poetry and Politics in the Modern Arab World, Love and Poetry in the Middle East, and A Map of Absence: An Anthology of Palestinian Writing on the Nakba. He has also published several poems, and translations from Arabic poetry into English, including a collection of poetry by the Palestinian Poet Najwan Darwish.