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The Psychoanalytic Imagination in Dr. Alan Kikani’s The Obsessed

Nassir al-Sayeid al-Nour
Cover photo of The Obsess. The title is in Arabic and it is am image of a man starting at the silhouette of another manin the fog.

Syrian (Kurdish) novelist and surgeon Alan Kikani has recently published his fourth narrative work, a novel titled The Obsessed, released by London-based Ramina Books, in which he skillfully merges an …

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Winter in Tents

Khaled Al-Qershali

A hush falls down where winter grips the land,And tents like trembling ghosts shake through the night;The rain seeps slow through rips no hands can mend,While bitter winds slip in …

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Pregnancy And Motherhood Amid Genocide in Gaza

Itemad

My name is Itemad. Since October 2023, my life has turned into a constant journey between fear and survival. What began as a moment of displacement soon became a long …

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A Thousand Eyes Speak: Interview with Artist Enas Marouf

Enas Yousef Esmail Marouf, Taqwa Ahmed Al-Wawi

A Thousand Eyes Speak by Enas Marouf

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Burning Soul

Menna Saber Abo Salem, Enas Yousef Esmail Marouf

Sad soulCrying through the night,bleeding, screaming,shattered apart,afraid of what is coming,shocked by what has been. They cut her wings —she cannot fly.The sad soul is trappedin Gaza’s broken heart,and it …

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The Universal Symbol of Life: In Dialogue with Nicola Mastroserio’s Art and Philosophical Perspective

Nicola Mastroserio
Multipe squares within a circle

I recently had the good fortune to read the article “Nicola Mastroserio and the Universal Symbol of Life” in the online art magazine Art Times Now. I am familar with …

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TO THE MOON

Menna Saber Abo Salem

Photographed by Malak Al-Shrafi

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GAZA: LETTERS FROM THE END OF THE WORLD

Taqwa Ahmed Al-Wawi

I LONG FOR MY OLD WORLD I long for Gaza before the genocide, when winter nights weren’t warmed by heaters, but by my grandfather’s voice threading through the cold, telling …

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I AM GAZA

Donya Abu Sitta

Brother, Gaza knows no dawn.The sunrise brings no change.Darkness rips us apart even when the sky is bright.Hunger is our shadow.And the cold is yet another killer.How long must this …

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IT SHALL PASS…

Lubna Ahmad Abu Dahrouj, Ahmed Header Ashour
A woman holding a blood stained child.

They always say:it shall pass.As simple as a three word sentence could be.They repeat it as if it were a curse.As if grief were smoke,easy to scatter with breath. But …

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