You Must Live is a bilingual anthology of contemporary Palestinian poetry from Gaza and the West Bank, written between 2023 and 2024. the collection features a range of poetic voices and styles reflecting on life, loss, love, and resilience within the Palestinian territories. The anthology explores the relationship between art and politics and presents perspectives on personal and collective experience

Parallel text in Arabic and English on facing pages

Where are you, my friend ; Hot Moon / Jawad al-Awwad -- I have never seen a corpse intact ; You made a mistake. You abandoned us ; Eulogy / Waleed al-Aqqad -- The Wolf Howling ; They Thought He Was Dead ; Time or Distance ; With the Power of Feet ; Rabid Animals ; No Second Sky ; From Beyond the Plains and Seas / Tariq al-Arabi --

Poems ;

Displaced Dog... Homeless Human / Hamid Ashour -- The Scale of the Catastrophe ; No Blame on You / Yahya Ashour -- Outside the World's Cemetery / Nasser Atallah -- The Number II / Nidal al-Faqaawi -- Too Little ; My Roots ; Daily Prayer for the Terrace Rose / Anes Ganema -- Had my fate been heaven, my wishes would've been bizarre ; The War Must Wait ; O Annihilation / Haider al-Ghazali -- Smoke and Embrace ; Psalm 251: An Ancient Temptation / Ala'a al-Ghoul -- Marry Me! ; Take me to the city gates / Kifah al-Ghusin -- To Create a Cloud ; In the Café ; How to build a pub in a country prohibited from love / Nema'a Hassan -- Just One Evening / Suleiman al-Hazeen -- I'm fed up with death ; A Curse ; To Boredom ; My Share of Dreams / Othman Hussein -- Fire burns up distance / Hana al-Imsi -- Drums ; Upside Down ; A Little Foot / Hind Joudeh -- When the Soldiers Leave This Place ; A Girl from Jerusalem ; Just a Loaf ; The Gravedigger ; When the War Is Over / Khaled Juma -- O Adam ; Life / Nibal Khalil -- Are You Not Tired Yet? / Mohammad al-Khatib -- The Dervish and I / Yusra al-Khatib -- In the Wind / Maher al-Maqousi -- Murmuring / Amal Abu Qamar -- I was sad ; A Tent from the Sky / Ala'a al-Qatrawi -- Gravitation ; Will We Meet? / Maryam Qawwash -- A Battlefield of Ashes ; The Hospital Is Far Away ; Plague Song ; Night Rain ; Nothing Kills Me, Nothing / Nasser Rabah -- The World Is Rusting ; The Author's Psyche Addresses His Persona / Shuja'a al-Safadi -- When God pours out rain and the earth floods ; I bark at my shadow, I guard the air / Khaled Shaheen -- When the Hearth Burns ; Traces of the Swarm / Jabir Sha'ith -- Blood's Tale Narrated by Its Audience ; Scraps of paper forgotten in the war bag / Hashem Shalola -- Take Me, O Distant Land ; A River like Intuition ; We will meet, don't be in such a rush ; Two Ramallahs / Hala al-Shrouf -- If I Had Known ; My Twenty-Ninth Birthday ; What Remains / Mosab Abu Toha -- Pulling my tomorrow out of the maze's rubble ; The Story of My Old Shoes ; Surgery on the Dream Body / Yasir al-Waqqad -- Statues and Gates ; O Victory ; Nine Sons and One Daughter ; I sing so I can wait longer / Ghassan Zaqtan -- A Song Comes to Mind / Fida'a Zayed