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Embracing Life’s Simple Pleasures

Reem Sleem, Shahd Rajab
Picture of a window with a kaffiyeh, a watermelon slice, and an olive branch

To awaken one morning and brush away the remnants of sleep from my eyes, to gaze at the ticking hands of the clock with a lazy yawn, and then drift …

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Hermon

Sarah Younan
Painting of Mount Hermon by Sarah Younan

Hermon,Statue indifférente au temps jadis, perle de roche que les hommes furieux convoitent, s’agrippent avec avidité à tes aspérités, s’engouffrent dans chacune de tes failles, mais seules les humeurs du …

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This is Beyond Genocide

Khaled Al-Qershali
Child walking near a destroyed building in Gaza

by Khaled Al-Qershali  After October 2023, I followed the news only from behind my phone screen, hesitant to write or share anything that’s happening around me. After being displaced, my …

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The Compelling Artistry of Marah Khaled

Layla Azmi Goushey, Marah Khaled

Marah Khalad is an artist in Gaza whose powerful, expressive work conveys her response to the ongoing genocide. Her drawings and paintings reflect real events she has witnessed and experienced, …

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ll pleut des yeux – It’s raining eyes

Sarah Younan
Red painted body within a circle

ll pleut des yeux ll pleut des yeux Et les bouches regardent Estomaquées Les dents molles La lèvre effarée Le regard fixe Le souffle court Il pleut des yeux Agrippés …

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Saudade: A Poem of Grief and Resilience

Taqwa Ahmed Al-Wawi, Ahmed Header Ashour
Woman in an ambulance hiding her face as if in tears with a bloody corpse in front of her.

Oh, my mindlet’s sit down tonight and speak in silence,for the noise inside is louder than bombs,and the smoke of worryhas blurred my view of the stars. I am Drained—not …

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In My Dreams, I Always Have a Chance

Lubna Ahmad Abu Dahrouj
Clouds in the sky

In my dreams, I always have a chanceI am a free bird,stretching my wings to hug the white clouds. No weight of headlines or grief. In my dreams,I sing with …

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Is It a Life?

Tala Albanna
Cat in Gaza

Is it a life?Where you see children walkingwith bags double their own bodies’ weight,carrying what’s left of food, clothesas they set off to return home.But their legs can never take …

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To Become A Tree

Tala Albanna

I want to become a Treethat embraces animals who climb insideI want to produce from my prolonged traumaa seedthat will grow something differentI do not know where I can be …

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Alone but Unbroken: Gaza’s Cry Against Silence

Taqwa Ahmed Al-Wawi, Ahmed Header Ashour

They left Gaza alone to face the beast,The whole world watched, but spoke in feasts—Of empty words and cold condemnations,No action born from their declarations. The Nation whispered but never …

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