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Ink is the Strongest Gunpowder

March 31, 2025

by Athena Farrokhzad

are you a total fucking idiot
do you know anything about gunpowder      
have you heard a hand grenade detonate
have you seen a combat medic amputate eighty legs in one go
do you understand what 75% saltpeter
15% charcoal and 10% sulfur can achieve

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Review: Perfect Victims: And the Politics of Appeal by Mohammed...

March 28, 2025

by Summer Farah

Subtlety: something I go back and forth worrying about, an oscillation between “not that deep” or “not worth it” to address, but with the knowledge that it is still cutting, cutting, cutting. 

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RAINDROPS

March 4, 2025

by Mizna Intern

Raindrops by Mazen Halabi originally appeared in Mizna issue 8.1, in the summer of 2006. In 2025 his work remains one of the numbered works written by or about Syrians to be published by Mizna. While Halabi’s story was first published before the Syrian revolution of 2011 against the Assad regime, and is now running in the aftermath of its fall, his work remains relevant and insightful. Raindrops is a story about youth: its sarcastic and playful moments, as well as the aberrant and painful...

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Uncrafted #2: An Interview with Sarah Aziza

February 26, 2025

by Hazem Fahmy

In the past few decades, as liberal cultural institutions have grown more dastardly effective at co-opting and defanging the political potential of writers and artists from historically marginalized backgrounds, the amorphous imperative to “witness” continuously re-emerges in the face of unceasing tragedy wrought about by the United States, its ruling class, and its ghastly allies across the globe. We are implored to “witness” atrocity after atrocity, but never as more than...

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On the Edge of a Volcano, a Rip through a Gazan’s Heart

February 18, 2025

by Diaa Wadi

Should I tell you a secret?

I’m afraid of the anguish I hold within me. Do people fear their own anguish?

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A Palestinian Tomorrow—A New Poem by Randa Jarrar

January 21, 2025

by Randa Jarrar

Because today there is still a war and 
maybe after the war there will be a day,
if after the war I have a drum or even a mouth 
to fix to say that we will dance 
and laugh so hard a day 
after the day after the war

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1500 Invasions Later: Photos of Destruction and Resilience from...

December 18, 2024

by Noora Said and Yousef Hamad

Jenin Refugee camp is referred to by Palestinians as the “castle of the revolutionaries” or the “capital of resistance” because it has historically been a birthplace of resistance fighters, and has always witnessed intense battles between its refugees and the invading occupation forces.

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Before I Sleep—Poem from Forest of Noise

December 5, 2024

by Mosab Abu Toha

It looks me in the eye
and recounts to me
the many times
it let me live.

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Honoring Palestinian Poets in a Time of Genocide: Poems from...

November 26, 2024

by George Abraham

Love takes the form of rain clouds: we accumulate despite our im/possible wounds, gather even in miraculous conditions. We join our kin in the swarm, all of whom gathering, like us, as waters from unknowable sources. And then the flood.

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Toward an Apocalypse of Letters—Foreword to 25.1: Catastrophe

November 4, 2024

by George Abraham

Love takes the form of rain clouds: we accumulate despite our im/possible wounds, gather even in miraculous conditions. We join our kin in the swarm, all of whom gathering, like us, as waters from unknowable sources. And then the flood.

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Flashbang

October 29, 2024

by Leila Mansouri

The building next door was stripped naked, its shattered windows gaping onto disarranged kitchens and bedrooms. My aunt’s building was leveled entirely.

“Pow,” she said, flattening the air between her hands.

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Now, for the Weather

October 10, 2024

by Aurielle Marie

here: here: here: here: take what I have in exchange
(but what do I have?) just this:

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Gazan Despair

October 3, 2024

by Yahya Ashour

Dear sky, 
where were you
when our homes were being
bombed?

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Ayşenur and Rachel

September 17, 2024

by Raya Tuffaha

how evergreen.

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It Always Starts with Words

September 5, 2024

by Olivia Elias

above the ghetto in flames   
frantically dance the goddesses
of vengeance & conquest

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