Muhammad al-Zaqzouq

Muhammad al-Zaqzouq is a writer, editor and researcher from Khan Younis, Gaza. His poetry collection Betrayed by the Soothsayers was awarded the 2018 Al Khalili Prize for Poetry. His writing has appeared in The Paris Review, The New York Review of Books, AGNI, The Funambulist, The Berlin Review, and The Massachusetts Review, as well as in numerous other publications in Arabic, French, German, Italian, and Dutch. He is the co-editor of Letters from Gaza (Penguin, 2025) and the author of a forthcoming memoir about the genocide, which will be published in English by Fourth Estate. (updated 4/2026)