October 16, 2026
Excerpts from Antigone at the Rot Party
Antigone rises and holds the envelope against her window. The glass is thick, muffling the noise of Thebes and its war. She reads the invitation again in the moonlight. The envelope is red, or maybe it is green. Someone has been careful with its design. She opens the window and witnesses as best she can. Somewhere beyond the city’s seven gates are her brothers. Somewhere further still, fate. She takes a certain pride in not turning away, but she also fears that it is nothing, the looking.
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October 7, 2026
Marking Three Years of Genocide in Gaza: Hug Machine
by Eman Basher
In my first writing session with Dr. Refaat, I sat there, staring at the blank page. I wrote nothing.
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July 23, 2026
The hero is dead, long live the mountain: Faris Dajani’s Threshold
BALTIMORE—Faris Dajani, a Palestinian-Jordanian multidisciplinary artist, stuns in his first solo exhibition, Threshold, Image. Situated in Gallery CA off East Oliver St. in Baltimore, Dajani cuts the thread of an imperial, detached reality at its metaphorical knees.
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