The Psychoanalytic Imagination in Dr. Alan Kikani’s The Obsessed
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 …
Winter in Tents
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 …
Pregnancy And Motherhood Amid Genocide in Gaza
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 …
Burning Soul
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 …
The Universal Symbol of Life: In Dialogue with Nicola Mastroserio’s Art and Philosophical Perspective
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 …
GAZA: LETTERS FROM THE END OF THE WORLD
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 …
I AM GAZA
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 …