It’s always difficult to make a list because I am afraid I will leave someone out. I am an enormous fan of Raja Shehadeh’s work. He gets to the core of things in Palestine. He’s a writer for our times. And Assaf Gavron captures the temperature of contemporary Israel in an extraordinary way. If I began the rest of the list it would extend for pages on end, but I always recommend going to the poets, and Darwish is a great staple.
