Fargo Nissim Tbakhi

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Fargo Nissim Tbakhi is a Palestinian American performance artist and the author of TERROR COUNTER (Deep Vellum, 2025), which was long-listed for the National Book Award. 

The winner of the Ghassan Kanafani Resistance Arts Prize, Tbakhi’s work has been supported by fellowships from Rhizome DC, VisArts, Desert Nights Rising Stars, Halcyon Arts Lab, Mosaic Theater, and the Radius of Arab American Writers (RAWI). 

Tbakhi lives in Washington, D.C., on Nacotchtank and Piscataway land.