Laila Kassab: A Beating Heart of Colors in Gaza
Laila Salah Kassab, a visual artist from the city of Rafah, in Gaza, Palestine, has learned to transform pain into colors. In this interview, she speaks to Baladi Magazine‘s Gaza …
Laila Salah Kassab, a visual artist from the city of Rafah, in Gaza, Palestine, has learned to transform pain into colors. In this interview, she speaks to Baladi Magazine‘s Gaza …
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 …
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 …
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 …
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 …
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 …
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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