Refaat Alareer: If I Must Die Tina M. Campt Jim Brodey

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Refaat Alareer: If I Must Die Tina M. Campt Jim BrodeyOR Books, 2025, hardcover, 288 pages, 19 x 13 cm "If I must die, let it bring hope, let it be a tale." The renowned poet and literature professor Refaat Alareer was killed by an Israeli airstrike in Gaza City alongside his brother, sister, and nephews in December 2023. He was just forty four years old, but had already established a worldwide reputation that was further enhanced when, in the wake of his death, the poem that gives this book its title