Love and Blindness at the End of the World
In this essay, Julia Choucair Vizoso reflects on erasure, blindness, and abolitionist love while searching for the “one-line poems that shake us out of sleep paralysis.”
Nonfiction
‘They Even Assassinated My Library’
However, for me, the most precious of all the manuscripts in my library were the six stories I wrote in Israeli jail. These were the first stories I ever wrote, penned during a few months of incarceration following my participation in the First Intifada in 1992. I wasn’t quite 19 when I wrote those stories. I “published” them by hanging them on the wall of the prison.
‘To the Poet Who Knew the Storm Would Return’
“Dear Mahmoud, I write to you from Gaza, not as it was, nor even as it is, but as something in between—a city trapped in the silence of its own destruction.” – Alaa Alqaisi
From Asmaa Azaizeh’s ‘The Year of Small Museums’
Asmaa Azaizeh’s memoir is an exploration of the universal nature of caretaking, love, and loss. But it is also intensely specific, bringing us into the world of death and its meanings in the farmlands surrounding a Galilee village.
New Writing from Gaza: Dunya al-Amal Ismail’s ‘The Thing’
Dunya al-Amal Ismail writes of nights in a tent on the beach in Gaza, when, “I lay down a front line of socks, mine and the kids’, filled with sea-sand, to defend my world contained within the tent.”
Translating the Unseen: Gaza’s Sky and Anne Carson’s Vision
Translating the Unseen: Gaza’s Sky and Anne Carson’s Vision By Alaa Alqaisi It began with an email from Dr. James Heaney, a professor of English and Irish studies at Carlow […]
‘A Bird with Wings of Fire’: Nasir Abdullah
This essay, written by poet Nasir Abdullah in the fall of 2024, carves out the difficulties of being separated from family during genocide. A Bird with Wings of Fire By […]
‘Texts That Survived the Ashes’: By Ahmed Naji
This essay, by acclaimed Egyptian novelist and memoirist Ahmed Naji, serves as the introduction to the 2025 collection Imprisoning a Revolution: Writings from Egypt’s Incarcerated, edited by Collective Antigone. The […]
From ‘The Many Lives of Ibrahim Nagui’
It’s publication day for Samia Mehrez’s The Many Lives of Ibrahim Nagui: A Journey with My Grandfather, translated to English by Eleanor Ellis. This excerpt, from the chapter “Houma and […]