Najwan Darwish

Najwan Darwish, born in Jerusalem in 1978, is a poet, writer and journalist. He completed his academic education in law, and he recently worked as chief editor for “360 Degrees” - a regionally syndicated radio program dedicated to the coverage of the arts scene, in its various forms, in the Arab World, Turkey and Iran.  

Najwan has written on Palestinian art, including a number of catalogue introductions for different Palestinian visual artists, and he has been published widely in the Palestinian and Arab press.

Najwan is the author of “He Was Knocking the Last Door” published by the Arab Institute for Research & Publishing, Lebanon 2000, which has been partially translated and published by some French literary magazines. He participated in different international cultural events; most recently the “Huitième Biennale Internationale des Poètes en Val-de-Marne” held in Paris during November 2005.