Nasser Rabah

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Nasser Rabah was born in Gaza in 1963. He received his BA in agricultural science in 1985. 

Rabah is the author of six collections of poetry: Gaza: The Poem Said Its Piece (City Lights Books, 2025), translated from the Arabic by Ammiel Alcalay, Khaled al-Hilli, and Emna Zghal; Eulogy for the Robin (2021); Water Thirsty for Water (2017); Passersby with Light Clothes (2014); One of Nobody (2011); and Running After Dead Gazelles (2003). He is also the author of two novels: The Enclosure of the Gazelle (2024) and Since approximately an hour (2018). His poems have been translated into English, French, and Hebrew. 

A member of the General Union for Palestinian Writers and the director of the communication department in the Palestinian Ministry of Agriculture, Rabah lives in Gaza.