Embracing Life’s Simple Pleasures
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 …
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 …
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 …
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 …
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, …
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 …
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 …
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 …
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 …
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 …
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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