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...
“Beautiful Pali Woman” Digital art Manal Deeb is a Palestinian American visual artist born in Ramallah, Palestine and currently living in Fairfax, Virginia. Deeb’s artwork has been...
Gawad Elakkad Translated from the Arabic by Hazem Jamjoum & lisa minerva luxx Your fingers plunge into my palm swaying like gazelles in the forest of the mind I dream of them a...
“Welcome All Exiles” Acrylic, ink, graphite and thread on canvas A multi-disciplinary artist and first-generation Palestinian American, Samar Hussaini’s paintings and sculptures are...
Omar Khoury I pressed my nose upon my mother’s sleeve, the incense nestled within it, both welcoming and overwhelming. Her hair whips thin, their curls like cresting waves crashing upon themselves....
“Gaza” Digital art Fuad Alymani was born in 1996, and is currently based in Prague. He holds degrees in contemporary visual arts from Birzeit University in Palestine and Konstfack...
Yahia Lababidi Where were you during the apocalypse on the other side of the world? Did you pause to observe a moment of silence? Did the extermination of the other half interrupt your sleep?...
“Fulcrum” Acrylic on canvas “The Postman And His Destination” Acrylic on canvas “Our Destination” Acrylic on canvas “Compact Culture” Acrylic on canvas...
Mohammed Abu Lebda One sets traps for doves, Aged at the thresholds of emptiness, Or bakes time slowly on a flame, For patience to ripen within. Amidst war’s chaos, Love transforms into a...
Fiction The Valley by Mays Kuhail The Well and the Grove by Tariq Karibian Nonfiction On the Brink of Something by Hasheemah Afaneh I click on a map of languages, dead and dying by Lori Yeghiayan...
