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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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SUSPENDED

Shoug Basem Mukhaimar, Ahmed Header Ashour
Woman in an ambulance hiding her face as if in tears with a bloody corpse in front of her.

We wait—not because we expect peace,but because the bombing leaves us no other choice. We wait like one who hides a wound beneath the mud,Like one who buries their cry …

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They Want Me Bare of Flesh

Adel Ramadi
Adel Ramadi

O Gate of God, I stand before youwithout power,without luxury,without Arabs,without woodto warm me when I shiver from the cold They want me bare of flesh, without fat, without bone …

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Half an Hour in Gaza

Hala Al Khatib
flour sacks in Gaza

The call to prayer rises.My brother goes out to pray at the mosque —the same mosque the Israelis threatened to bomb many times.A rocket sound.We rush to the windows,looking for …

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Twenty Months in Deir Al-Ballah

Khaled Al-Qershali

On 17 August 2024, the Israeli occupation launched airstrikes on eastern Salah Al-Dein Street in Deir Al-Ballah, Gaza. Many residents lost their homes and more than 30 individuals were killed …

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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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