Yahia Lababidi, a writer of Palestinian background, is the author of twelve critically-acclaimed books of aphorisms, essays, poetry and conversations including What Remains To Be Said (Wild Goose Publications, 2025), Palestine Wail (Daraja Press, 2024), Quarantine Notes (Fomite Press, 2023), Desert Songs (Rowayat, 2022) and Learning to Pray (Kelsay Books, 2021). Lababidi’s latest works continue his engagement with the sacred and the poetic as means of healing and illumination.