Selected Writing

A selection of poems, essays, conversations and translations published across literary and scholarly venues.

Poetry

If This Is My Face, So Be It, Modern Poetry in Translation (2016) and reprinted in The Forward Book of Poetry 2022: The Best Poems from the Forward Prizes, London: Faber and Faber Read

Time Camp is a Bait for Time, Poetry London (2021) Read

The Bomb Shelter, Cambridge Literary Review (2021) 

Holy Water and Haram New England Review (2022) Read

What Remains of the Camp When the Name Dies?, Stand (2019) Read

The Camp is Time, Refugee Hosts (2017) Read

Writing the Camp, Refugee Hosts (2017) and reprinted in Tuama, P. Ó. (ed) Poetry Unbound, Canongate. Read

Essays & Criticism

Refugees as Archiving Subjects: between the researched and the researcher, Journal of Humanitarian Affairs (2025) Read

Embodying Kinship: Kinship in the Flesh, Jhalak Review (2025) Read

A Photograph For My Mother’s Absence, in Migrant Knowledge: Thoughts and Responses (2025)

Language, Home and Threshold: Digging in Arabic and English, PN Review (2021) Read

Many Routes to Palestine: An Appreciation of Mourid Barghouti, Modern Poetry in Translation (2021) 

Afterword, in AbdelLatif Laabi’s Mother’s Language (2021)

At the Feast of Asylum, GeoHumanities (2016) Read

Conversations

Writing Across Borders: A Conversation between Giulia Travaglini and Yousif M. Qasmiyeh, Journal of Literary Multilingualism (2026) Read

A Future of Our Own Making: In Conversation with Anthony Vahni Capildeo and Yousif M. Qasmiyeh, Wasafiri (2024) Read

In Conversation: Yousif M. Qasmiyeh on Language and Liminality, Asymptote (2017) Read

Translation

Poetry by Nazih Abu Afash, Asymptote (2017, with Kate McLoughlin) Read

The Face: The One, the Multiple, Adonis (translated from the Arabic) (2015) 

Nazih Abu-Afash: Six poems, Modern Poetry in Translation (2015, with Kate McLoughlin) Read

Selected Poems by Jamie McKendrick (Arabic translation), Al-Ghawoon (2010)