Category: Features

The Valley

Mays Kuhail “Dodi, Dodi!” Giza nudges me awake. “The wall is coming down.”   I open my eyes, slowly adjusting them to dawn. The sun is making its way out of the valley’s horizon,...

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The Well and the Grove

Tariq Karibian It’s 11:53 AM. Your phone is at 57%. Since the Internet went down, you’ve been keeping it on Low Power mode and using it mostly as a clock. There is a lull in the chaos outside....

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On the Brink of Something

Hasheemah Afaneh I thought I would remember the nurse’s name, but I was naive to think my memory wouldn’t fail to recall the name on her white coat, despite whispering it a few times to myself....

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Brandon Kashou

“The Well and the Grove” Digital, Procreate Brandon Kashou is a Palestinian American artist based in Chicago, Illinois. His specialties include graphic design, digital/traditional...

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I click on a map of languages, dead and dying

Lori Yeghiayan Friedman and find my dead and dying language, the one that I don’t speak. Everyone knows it: I am the killer, always have been. I am guilty, no trial needed.   Murderer though I...

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Go Outside and Weep

Omar Khoury And when the Lord God formed Man from the dust of the Earth and breathed into his nostrils the breath of life, God made Man full of contradiction. “First, you shall pray to me,” He...

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Ghayad Khatib

“Puzzle of Al Mujaydel” Oil painting and retracing collage digital art Ghayad Khatib’s journey intertwines art, architecture, and cultural preservation within the complexities of...

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zero

Nadine Channaoui just like that thirty-five thousand gone demolished killed starved diseased   one thousand for each year i have circled the sun another thousand for the circle my daughter has made...

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Jeanine Yacoub

“The View from Dad’s House” Kodak Gold 200 35mm film “Stone Walls and Nature” Fujifilm Superia 400 35mm film “Unfinished” Kodak Gold 200 35mm film...

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you did your duty

Majida Halaweh to you who look at me with pity in your eyes: i know your love for me makes you ask how i am but it does not extend beyond that.   i know you sit around lamenting my...

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