Career
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. 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.
