Writing the Camp is a collection by our Baddawi Lab collaborator, Yousif M Qasmiyeh.
The collection has been selected as The Poetry Society’s Spring 2021 Recommendation.
It is an exceptional, essential collection drawn from the poet’s experience of the Baddawi refugee camp in Lebanon. The poetry moves beyond the observational into a philosophical meditation on the existential nature of place. Qasmiyeh asks “Where is time?”, crossing footprints of Derrida, “To experience is to advance by navigating, to walk by traversing”. Writing The Camp is a brave and beautiful work, one which will surely be of historical importance.