Resistance and Hope

Introduction

Editorial Note

By Bahar Orang

Why, in this issue, do we turn deliberately toward armed resistance?

By Bahar Orang

Praise the paragliders, their gentle ascension, their unbroken morning, and of course their triumphant descension, their feet touching down.

Poetry

By Sarra Ghadeer Malek

These homelands speak: / Toufaan طُوفَانُ Toufaan طُوفَانُ

By Kendra Augustin

I mistook you for a hero

By Janan Alexandra

here is the eastern bluebird, a prayer on wings.

Essays

By Jody Chan and CeCe Fortier

Rejecting armed resistance declares a kind of life-in-death.

Interviews

By Abdaljawad Omar and Yasir Piracha

In the imperial metropole, “resistance” has become at once ubiquitous and unspeakable.

By Ibrahim Abusitta and Nazanin Zarepour

I met with Ibrahim Abusitta in his studio in mid-July shortly after seeing his most recent work, Operations, at Whippersnapper Gallery.

By Fatima Joumma and Zara Khan

After the Israel–Lebanon ceasefire took effect on November 27, 2024, Fatima Joumaa returned to her home in Beirut’s southern suburbs.

Reviews

By Justin Podur

At the end of the 2021 war, a Hamas leader gave a speech among the carnage of Gaza.