Books
Dark Star Requiem
Poetry Collection- Diode Editions- 2025
A fearless and luminous collection, Dark Star Requiem is a requiem for the living; a book that mourns and celebrates in equal measure. Shoufani, a Palestinian American poet and filmmaker, writes with breathtaking precision about exile, inheritance, desire, and the endurance of art. The poems speak to displacement and devotion, to the ache of remembering and the necessity of forgetting. They move with cinematic scope and visceral detail, carrying us from the streets of Beirut and Damascus to the subways of London and New York.
They ask: What does it mean to love amid ruin? How do we speak when the world falls silent? Each poem becomes an act of witness and resistance, a reclamation of the body and the land. In Shoufani’s hands, language becomes a landscape of resistance.
This collection speaks directly to our moment of despair and insists that beauty, however fragile, still matters. In lush and exacting language, Dark Star Requiem explores how art endures when everything else is gone. It reminds us that the work of poetry is not only to mourn but to build something new in the ruins.- Diode Editions
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Nowhere Near a Damn Rainbow
Poeticians Anthology, Editor - 2012
Hind and her comrade in literary crime, Zena El Khalil, co-created this uncensored blunt collection of poetry about the Arab world from 30 international poets who had performed over the years with Hind’s poetry platform, The Poeticians. It brings together unsanctioned and diverse voices, in dual languages over 300 pages that create a state of being for the regional literary community, ranging from amateur novices to more experienced writers. Cover design by the lovely Danielle Kattar.
Published by xanadu*, in Beirut.
Inkstains on the Edge of Light
Volume of Poetry, Writer - 2010
This is the second collection of poems and spoken word from Hind, in collaboration with Zena El Khalil. The book contains four chapters– Death, Life, Home, Lust– where Hind writes of the Arab world through a cosmopolitan global view, and of the world through her Palestinian diasporic identity and rootless lifestyle. She is influenced by the Civil Rights Movement poets and current writers of the Hip Hop generation, especially the powerful poets emerging from Brooklyn. In over three hundred pages of open free form verse, Hind takes the reader on a whirlwind tour of politics, honor killings, terror attacks on Mumbai, lost lovers and new found mourning, sensuality and humid nights in Beirut, the glittering gulf of Dubai and the dust of chaotic Damascus. She condemns human rights injustices, sexist mythology, structures of patriarchy and cowardly loves. She hurts for and commemorates family deceased, both close and far. She mourns Palestine, a homeland she never knew well. She resists all forms of occupation– both of land and soul. She laughs and sings and dances from throughout the Middle East to her beloved New York. And back.
Published by xanadu*, in Beirut. Cover design by the lovely Danielle Kattar.
More Light Than Death Could Bear
Volume of poetry, Writer - 2007
This is Hind’s first collection, handmade in collaboration with her long time literary buddy, Zena El Khalil. Written mostly through the painful summer of 2006, it documents a journey from NYC back to the Middle East, through lost love, mourning for family, and a war on a homeland. Comprised of three chapters, the book takes the reader through war zones, to memories of Yasmine, Hind’s departed mother, to experiences of heady joy and loss in Beirut. The book was launched at a fabulous party at Art Lounge, in a collaborative xanadu* event, whereby over 20 artists chose poems from the book to create art based on the language and theme of the poem. Paintings, photography, music performances, songs and installations were enjoyed at the launch as well as scheduled readings, capoeira music and dancing. And lots and lots of glitter.
Published by xanadu*, Beirut. Book cover designed by the lovely Danielle Kattar, featuring Palestinian embroidery scanned from Hind’s ancestral heirlooms.
