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Author of the novels: Sonora (Soho), The Stars Are Not Yet Bells (Riverhead), and Paradiso 17 (Knopf & 4th Estate)
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What a beautiful dream.
06 Oct 2026
Siamo amici daddy, per sempre
ٱلْحَمْدُ لِلَّٰهِ
17 Sep 2026
The Key is honored to share a new translation of Mahmoud Darwish’s “The Land Poem,” from his 1977 poetry collection “A’ras” (“Weddings”), translated by Barbara Romaine.
As Omar Khalifah writes in his introduction, Darwish wrote these poems in the wake of what came to be known as Land Day: in 1976, the Israeli government moved to seize thousands of acres of Palestinian land near the Galilee, and the plan was met with strikes and protests across several villages. Israeli forces opened fire on demonstrators, killing several Palestinians, and the date has been marked ever since.
Barbara Romaine’s translation appears in the new poetry anthology “Mahmoud Darwish: Poems,” edited by Hannah Lilith Assadi and Omar Khalifah and released this week by Penguin Random House.
Comment LINK to read the full introduction and poem on The Key.
08 Nov 2026
Today we publish Darwish. In this sumptuous, expansive collection, selections from across the entire career of Mahmoud Darwish, are gathered beneath one roof.
This volume also features first-time translations of some of the Palestine national poet’s most significant works in English, compiled and edited by writers, professors, and scholars of Palestine, Hannah Lillith Assadi and Omar Khalifah.
Darwish, whose life in exile spanned from Galilee to Paris to Beirut to Cairo to his final destination, Houston, created poetry of intense beauty and resonance, and in his verses, everyone who has ever been dispossessed finds a voice and a home.
Collected here is the mark of a master, a range of expression that proceeds from a Palestinian voice, both raging and passionate, and an indomitably resistant human spirit: love poems, lyrics, observations of nature, epically structured myths, glimpses of life under siege and occupation, and ultimately of a life looking beyond this Earth, at the stars.
#MahmoudDarwish #Poetry #ClassicLiterature #Palestine
05 Nov 2026
On Saturday, November 7 at 1:00pm PST, join us for NBF Presents: What we Inherit at the Literary Arts’ Portland Book Festival (@literaryarts) in Portland, OR.
Join Finalists for the 2026 National Book Award for Fiction Hannah Lillith Assadi and Julián Delgado Lopera for readings and conversation about the meaning of exile and the power of multigenerational gifts, and curses, found in their fiction. Moderated by Ruth Dickey, Executive Director of the National Book Foundation.
And before the mainstage event, you can catch Hannah and Julián for pop-up readings at the @portlandartmuseum at 11:00am PST.
04 Nov 2026
This little beauty containing a lifetime of great beauties is out in the world today. It fits so nicely into the palm of a hand or in your pocket so take it with you to vote, take it with you everywhere. Another dream born into the world thanks to @atreediary & this one edited with my dearest Omar Khalifah. ❤️🌹
03 Nov 2026
Still celebrating ✨
As PARADISO 17 continues its journey as a National Book Award finalist, we asked Hannah Lillith Assadi to reflect on what this moment, and this book, means to her:
“This book was born in a state of deep, personal grief and loss, and so it has been so moving to see it move readers. To be a finalist for the National Book Award for this story about my late, beloved father truly feels like a surreal and gorgeous dream.”
@hlillith, what a joy to keep celebrating PARADISO 17 with you ✨
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#Paradiso17
#HannahLillithAssadi
#ABorzoiBook
29 Oct 2026
I dreamt of my father the night before last and when he appeared in the old mall where I spent so many days of my childhood, I could hardly look at him. It was like staring directly at the sun. But I adjusted to the bright pain of our reunion and asked him how he was, and he said, it’s really nice over here.
Four years since he left us, and what is four years but a series of seasons, our puny attempt to map the waves.
29 Oct 2026
In this Episode 364 clip, @nationalbookfoundation shortlister @hlillith talks about her mindset in making her book, based on her late, beloved father, fictional, and wonderful feedback on such a personal project.
Buy the wondrous, riveting and gorgeously-rendered Paradiso 17 from @aaknopf
Listen using link in the bio
21 Oct 2026
had a wonderful conversation with the dear @hlillith for @lareviewofbooks about Huna and the lineage of revolutionary love the book is in kinship with. ❤️
Link to full interview in bio.
13 Oct 2026
Some recent moments in NYC, me melting into my city, Bk book fest, selfie in the Pratt library
09 Oct 2026
2026 National Book Award Fiction Finalists:
We are Happy to share with you the 2026 National Book Award Fiction Finalists! We have all the selections minus “Mad Eden” which is on-order. The official winner will be announced November 18th!
Which of the fiction finalists do you plan on reading first?
1. “Paradiso 17” - Hannah Lillith Assadi
2. “Dey” - Edwidge Danticat
3. “Pretend You’re Dead and I Carry You” - Julian Delagado Lopera
4. “Beginning Middle End” - Valeria Luiselli
5. “Mad Eden” - Morgan Thomas
@hlillith @knopfca @edwidgedanticat @liverightbooks @juliandlopera @valeria_luiselli @mcdbooks @barnesandnoble @bnfairlawn #nbawards @nytimes @nationalbookfoundation #nationalbookawards
09 Oct 2026
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