Khalil Hawi

Khalil Hawi (Arabic: خليل حاوي; Transliterated Khalīl Ḥāwī) (1919-1982) was a Lebanese poet. In his lifetime he wrote five anthologies of poetry and regularly contributed to literary magazines such as Majallat Shiʿr ("Poetry Magazine"). A selection of his poetry was translated by Adnan Haydar and Michael Beard in Naked in Exile: Khalil Hawi's Threshing Floors of Hunger.

Contents

• Mansour Rahbani reads Khalil Hawi
• List of Works
• References

In 1982, upon the Israeli invasion of Beirut in the midst of the Lebanese Civil War, Hawi committed suicide with a rifle in his apartment near the American University of Beirut.