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My Father, My Martyr, and Me
My Father, My Martyr, and Me is a full length solo performance in poetry. It has been programmed at the Capital Fringe Festival, Mosaic Theater, OUTSider Fest, INTER-SECTION Solo Fest, the Rachel Corrie Foundation’s SHURUQ Festival, Western Washington University, and elsewhere.
Duration: 90 minutes
Press/Reviews
2022 Capital Fringe Review: ‘My Father, My Martyr, and Me’ by Fargo Nissim Tbakhi - DC Theater Arts
Colonize this | ASU News
My Father, My Martyr, and Me and the 'unarcheology' of home (nuebox.org)
Nerdcast Arizona PBS - Fargo Tbahki & The Creative Process (google.com)
![IMG Description: Fargo, dressed in a sheer red bodysuit and wearing green glasses, applies lipstick while looking into a hand mirror held by an audience member.]()
![IMG description: Fargo, dressed in a sheer red bodysuit, stands in front of a ladder with pieces of paper taped to it. Suspended from the ceiling is a shovel, pointy side down, with a vinyl record attached. The record is "Abba Eban Speaks". Fargo is standing such that his face is behind the vinyl record, which has Abba Eban's face on it; it looks like Eban's face is attached to Fargo's body. The string suspending the shovel is held by a seated audience member.]()
![IMG Description: Fargo, standing on a pile of dirt which has a shovel and wooden box on it, dances. He is surrounded by audience members, and he is wearing a torn brown shirt and black velvet pants.]()
![IMG Description: In the foreground, Fargo dances with two audience members. In the background, two other audience members are dancing, while others are still seated.]()
Selected Performance Work
The Book of Dust
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An Evening With Complicity Huffman
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Fragments
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Eve
My Father, My Martyr, and Me
My Father, My Martyr, and Me is a full length solo performance in poetry. It has been programmed at the Capital Fringe Festival, Mosaic Theater, OUTSider Fest, INTER-SECTION Solo Fest, the Rachel Corrie Foundation’s SHURUQ Festival, Western Washington University, and elsewhere.
Duration: 90 minutes
Press/Reviews
2022 Capital Fringe Review: ‘My Father, My Martyr, and Me’ by Fargo Nissim Tbakhi - DC Theater Arts
Colonize this | ASU News
My Father, My Martyr, and Me and the 'unarcheology' of home (nuebox.org)
Nerdcast Arizona PBS - Fargo Tbahki & The Creative Process (google.com)
Selected Poems
2022
Craft Talk | Jewish Currents
The Dream of the Anti-Ekphrasis | Academy of American Poets
2021
“PALESTINE IS A FUTURISM: NEOLOGISMS,” “STOP! STOP, THIEF-- YOU FORGOT SOMETHING!” | bahr
Olive Tree Necropastoral | wildness
OF | Protean Magazine
“american-Palestinian Incantation”| Poetry Daily
“For My Little Wooden Fisherman,” “Travel Log: Visit Palestine!” | Flypaper Lit
“Indictment Film,” | The Boiler
“PALESTINE IS A FUTURISM: THE DREAM” | Strange Horizons
2020
“The King Pays the Moss to Eat the Castle,” “The King Pays the Moslem Never to Return,” “The Wise American Poet Brings Peace to the Middle East” | Prolit
“american-Palestinian incantation,” “resurrection, with lines from joanna newsom,” | Mizna Queer and Trans Voices Issue
“on learning Palestine does not exist,” | Shuruq Festival Writing Showcase, Rachel Corrie Foundation
“ghazal-sonnet crown for failure and tonya and baba and queers and me,” | Peach Mag
-Longlisted for the Peach Gold Prize
“palestinians handshake emoji spiders,” | Afternoon Visitor
“in the year 2148, our only nakba,” | Hobart
“Excerpts from ANTIGONE. VELOCITY. SALT,”
“palestinian love poem”, | Berkeley Poetry Review
“Excerpts from ANTIGONE. VELOCITY. SALT,” | Great River Review
“in the walgreens parking lot on the corner of 44th and indian school, another massacre,” | Anomaly
“5 poems,” | baest
“on learning Palestine does not exist,” “vaudeville to find each other,” “zuihitsu with $56.23 in my bank account,” | Best Buds! Poetry Collective
Craft Talk | Jewish Currents
The Dream of the Anti-Ekphrasis | Academy of American Poets
2021
“PALESTINE IS A FUTURISM: NEOLOGISMS,” “STOP! STOP, THIEF-- YOU FORGOT SOMETHING!” | bahr
Olive Tree Necropastoral | wildness
OF | Protean Magazine
“american-Palestinian Incantation”| Poetry Daily
“For My Little Wooden Fisherman,” “Travel Log: Visit Palestine!” | Flypaper Lit
“Indictment Film,” | The Boiler
“PALESTINE IS A FUTURISM: THE DREAM” | Strange Horizons
2020
“The King Pays the Moss to Eat the Castle,” “The King Pays the Moslem Never to Return,” “The Wise American Poet Brings Peace to the Middle East” | Prolit
“american-Palestinian incantation,” “resurrection, with lines from joanna newsom,” | Mizna Queer and Trans Voices Issue
“on learning Palestine does not exist,” | Shuruq Festival Writing Showcase, Rachel Corrie Foundation
“ghazal-sonnet crown for failure and tonya and baba and queers and me,” | Peach Mag
-Longlisted for the Peach Gold Prize
“palestinians handshake emoji spiders,” | Afternoon Visitor
“in the year 2148, our only nakba,” | Hobart
“Excerpts from ANTIGONE. VELOCITY. SALT,”
“palestinian love poem”, | Berkeley Poetry Review
“Excerpts from ANTIGONE. VELOCITY. SALT,” | Great River Review
“in the walgreens parking lot on the corner of 44th and indian school, another massacre,” | Anomaly
“5 poems,” | baest
“on learning Palestine does not exist,” “vaudeville to find each other,” “zuihitsu with $56.23 in my bank account,” | Best Buds! Poetry Collective
Selected Prose
Notes on Craft: Writing in the Hour of Genocide | Protean Magazine
It Is Long Past Time for American Theaters to Boycott Israel | HowlRound Theater Commons
Roundtable: The Palestinian Speculative | Strange Horizons
Balfour in the Desert | Strange Horizons
Dispatches From an Unoccupied Future: Reflections on Palestine Writes | Los Angeles Review of Books
Root Rot | Apex Magazine
-Must Read Speculative Short Fiction: January 2021, Tor.com
-Anthologized in Best American Science Fiction and Fantasy, We’re Here: Best Queer Speculative Fiction, and Best World SF
Being Listened To: On Philip Metres’ Shrapnel Maps, Colonialism, and the Violence of Conversation | Poetry Proiect Newsletter
12 Worlds Interrupted by the Drone | Strange Horizons
-Must Read Speculative Short Fiction: September 2020, Tor.com
3 performance texts | Foglifter
-Pushcart Nomination
It Is Long Past Time for American Theaters to Boycott Israel | HowlRound Theater Commons
Roundtable: The Palestinian Speculative | Strange Horizons
Balfour in the Desert | Strange Horizons
Dispatches From an Unoccupied Future: Reflections on Palestine Writes | Los Angeles Review of Books
Root Rot | Apex Magazine
-Must Read Speculative Short Fiction: January 2021, Tor.com
-Anthologized in Best American Science Fiction and Fantasy, We’re Here: Best Queer Speculative Fiction, and Best World SF
Being Listened To: On Philip Metres’ Shrapnel Maps, Colonialism, and the Violence of Conversation | Poetry Proiect Newsletter
12 Worlds Interrupted by the Drone | Strange Horizons
-Must Read Speculative Short Fiction: September 2020, Tor.com
3 performance texts | Foglifter
-Pushcart Nomination
Selected Visual Art
Fargo Nissim Tbakhi
Fargo Nissim Tbakhi is a Palestinian performance artist and the author of TERROR COUNTER (Deep Vellum, 2025) and ANTIGONE. VELOCITY. SALT. (Deep Vellum, 2027).
For any event inquiries, please email leslie@theshipmanagency.com
For any event inquiries, please email leslie@theshipmanagency.com