About Mosab Abu Toha
Mosab Abu Toha is a Palestinian poet, short story writer, and essayist from Gaza. He is the founder of the Edward Said Library, the only English-language library in Gaza. In 2019-20, he was a visiting fellow at Harvard University's Department of Comparative Literature, a librarian at Houghton Library, and a fellow at Harvard Divinity School. Abu Toha is also a columnist for Arrowsmith Press, and has written from Gaza for The Nation, Literary Hub, The New York Times, and The New Yorker.His poems have appeared on the Poetry Foundation website and in journals such as Poetry Magazine, Banipal, Solstice, The New Arab, The New York Review, The Progressive, The New Yorker, and The Atlantic. In 2022, he published his first collection of poetry, Things You May Find Hidden in My Ear (City Lights). He won the Palestine Book Award and an American Book Award. He was also a finalist for the National Book Critics Circle Award and the Walcott Poetry Prize. The New York Times wrote: Abu Toha's successful debut contrasts with the natural beauty of the scenes of political violence.
In 2023, Mosab Abu Toha was appointed Visiting Professor at Syracuse University through the Scholars at Risk network. In the spring semester of 2024, he was Professor and Writer-in-Residence at the American University in Cairo. In 2025, Mosab Abu Toha received the Pulitzer Prize for Commentary for a series of articles published in The New Yorker.
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