Al Istiqlal Mosque and Sail Tower government building, Haifa. Photo by Maryam Kanaan. The following poems are the work of a group of Palestinian students with Israeli citizenship, currently enrolled in the Israeli university system. While around five million Palestinians live in the occupied West Bank and Gaza, so-called Arab Israelis make up just over 20 percent (2.1 million) of the Israeli population that resides principally within the borders of Israel established after the Nakba of 1948. Though nominally accorded the same legal rights as Jewish Israelis, Arab Israelis are effectively second-class citizens, subject to significant discrimination and disadvantage. They are also complexly positioned in relation to both mainstream Israeli society and Palestinian life in the occupied territories. Neither fully integrated nor fully excluded, their perspectives tend to be underrepresented in discourse around Israel-Palestine.…