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In 1971, in the wake of George Jackson's killing by San Quentin prison guards, a poem entitled ""Enemy of the Sun"" was found among ninety-nine books in the revolutionary's cell. The handwritten poem came to be circulated in Black Panther newspapers under Jackson's name, assumed to be a vestige of his more than a decade long incarceration. But Jackson never wrote the poem; it was authored by the Palestinian poet Sameeh Al-Qassem and had been included in an anthology of the same title a year before Jackson's death. Originally published by Drum & Spear, the publishing arm of the Student Nonviolent Coordinating Committee, Enemy of the Sun: Poetry of Palestinian Resistance links twelve poets working in a poetics of refusal and of hope. In each poem is a whole life--joy, love, beauty, rage, sorrow, suffering--and in each life is a record of resistance: the traces of a people who refuse to leave their homeland, who time and again alchemize grief into principled struggle. In the intertwined histories of this book, and in the unyielding political edge of the poems themselves, is a long story of solidarity between oppressed peoples: from Palestine to South Africa to Algeria to Vietnam to the United States.

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Naseer H. Aruri (1934-2015) graduated from American International College and received his doctorate from the University of Massachusetts, where he later taught. His specialty was in the fields of Middle East governments and politics, international studies, and American government and foreign policy. Naseer H. Aruri (1934-2015) graduated from American International College and received his doctorate from the University of Massachusetts, where he later taught. His specialty was in the fields of Middle East governments and politics, international studies, and American government and foreign policy. Edmund Ghareeb earned a degree in political science and history from American International College and an MA and PhD from Georgetown University, before teaching as a professor at American University, University of Virginia, and George Washington University's Elliott School of International Affairs. Edmund Ghareeb earned a degree in political science and history from American International College and an MA and PhD from Georgetown University, before teaching as a professor at American University, University of Virginia, and George Washington University's Elliott School of International Affairs. A native of Southeast, Washington DC, Greg Thomas teaches Black studies and literature in English at Howard University. He is author of The Sexual Demon of Colonial Power: Pan-African Embodiment and Erotic Schemes of Empire as well as Hip-Hop Revolution in the Flesh: Power, Knowledge and Pleasure in Lil' Kim's Lyricism. Jeed Saddy is a mother of four who studied voice-over and improv in San Francisco and now resides in the Los Angeles area.

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