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On Which Side of the Screen Lies the Ghost?
April 2, 2025
by Lamia Abukhadra
Gaza is the ghost of the world, the persistent presence that, despite all efforts to erase it, to make it disappear, remains and resists. It is Gaza that has shown us the impossible: the horrors of settler colonialism at its most extreme and brutal, the ways in which resistance is possible in the smallest of gestures, and finally, the triumphant acts of return and reunification following the now-broken ceasefire agreement. The ghost of the world has shown us the world for what it is and what...
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
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.
RAINDROPS
March 4, 2025
by Mazen Halabi
Thunder drummed in jubilation as our tires tangoed with the city’s cobblestones, and we rode like Khalid and Abu Obiedah, banging on the city’s gates, claiming Damascus as our own. We were her boys, and she gently embraced us, pulling the cover of rain over to protect us. Our clothes, drenched and heavy with rain, clung tightly. We were soaked to the last inch of our bodies. We wore soft, innocent smiles. Not a word was uttered.
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...
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?
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
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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:
Gazan Despair
October 3, 2024
by Yahya Ashour
Dear sky,
where were you
when our homes were being
bombed?
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Authors▼
- Ahmed AbdulMageed
- Andrea Abi-Karam
- George Abraham
- Sarona Abuaker
- Lamia Abukhadra
- Shireen Ahmed
- Maya Abu Al-Hayyat
- Yahya Ashour
- Sophia Attigui
- Farah Barqawi
- Moustafa Bayoumi
- Mahmoud Darwish
- Mohammed El-Kurd
- Abdelrahman ElGendy
- Olivia Elias
- Hazem Fahmy
- Summer Farah
- Athena Farrokhzad
- Anees Ghanima
- Mazen Halabi
- Noora Said and Yousef Hamad
- Maen Hammad
- Nour Eldin Hussein
- Randa Jarrar
- Fady Joudah
- Najwa Juma
- Lucia Kagramanyan
- Ismail Khalidi
- Tariq Luthun
- Leila Mansouri
- Aurielle Marie
- Mira Mattar
- Nadine Murtaja
- Heba Abu Nada
- Ibrahim Nasrallah
- Haya Abu Nasser
- Nabil S
- Omar Sakr
- Charif Shanahan
- Jen Siraganian
- Danez Smith
- Huda Soboh
- Mosab Abu Toha
- Raya Tuffaha
- Diaa Wadi
- Mohammed Zenia