🎤 Ghájath Almadhún

About

Ghájath Almadhún is a Palestinian poet born in Damascus to parents who fled Ashkelon. He left Syria for Sweden in 2008 and now divides his time between Berlin and Stockholm. His five poetry collections have been translated into nearly thirty languages; his latest, I Have Brought You a Severed Hand (2025), weaves personal loss and the history of displacement through surrealist imagery and dark irony.