Writer. Poet. Curator.
I write, perform, teach and curate. My work moves between Germany and the Middle East, between poetry, memory and everyday life.
NEW BOOK · 2026
Fünfzehn Narben
Jüdisch-arabische Texte zu Politik und Poesie
AphorismA Verlag
“Der Preis”
PalmArtPress. 2025.
Das kleine Boot in meiner Hand nenn ich Narbe
Gedichte. Parasitenpresse. 2023.
Bagdad Haifa Berlin
Bilingual second edition. Aphorisma Verlag. 2019.
About Mati
Mati Shemoelof is a Berlin-based writer, poet, curator and literary editor, born and raised in Haifa. He has published sixteen books in Israel\Palestine and Germany and writes in Hebrew, German, Arabic and English. His work explores migration, memory, language, belonging and Arab-Jewish histories.
