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Special Editions
Indicia
A collection of stories by Gazan authors focused on alternative archives through imagination, materiality, and In…
Written by Shahd Alnaami, Ahmad Elkhuwaja, Taqwa Al-Wawi, and Shahd Alnaouq. Minimum $5 contribution to each author, equaling $20 altogether.
Regular Zine Catalogue
The Writings of Shahd Alnaami
This half-letter size zine collects Shahd’s writing, both nonfiction and poetry, about her experiences of the most recent years of the ongoing genocide of Palestinians. Her writing immortalizes some of what has been lost, with precision and grace.--S…
Minimum Donation: 10-15 EUR
However Fragile
Comforting medicine for hearts that must grow without being mended. Tasneem, a brilliant young woman in Gaza, has overcome many obstacles to become a college lecturer, but just as opportunity begins to bloom, a new assault …
Minimum Donation: 10 EUR
Aerie Tales
A collection of eleven poems that connect to natural elements. The moon, the sea, a spider and his silk, the sky, a bird, sand, and flowers are rescued by the poets perspective and held aloft so the spirit may not forget it belongs in the realm of life, a landscape denied to Gaza.
Minimum Donation: 7-10 EUR
The Heart's Gaze
In this twenty-four page zine, sixteen works of gentle prose carry readers through the swirling thoughts of author Sondos Al-Saqqa. She writes from the heart of Gaza, breathing stories of love and longing for existence, the “language of the universe,” amidst loss and sorrow. Each…
Minimum Donation: 7-10 EUR
Gaza Calling: Will the World Pick Up?
A strong voice, calling from the heart of Gaza, commands attention in this collection of eleven pieces of writing by Taqwa Al-Wawi. Searing with intelligence and passion, these poems and articles demonstrate the author’s high respect for language and…
Minimum Donation: 10-15 EUR
Questions on My Mind
As though blinded by grief and loss, a poet asks the moon to tell her what has happened to Gaza. Questions fumble over Gaza’s devastated landscape like hands discovering a loved one’s face by touch alone.
Minimum Donation: 7-10 EUR
Questions on My Mind: A Sequel
The poet that once sought Gaza’s countenance through the eyes of the moon, now asks it to carry within its light her beloved homeland and deliver it upon her windowsill in Ireland, where questions arise differently and normality outpaces memory.
Minimum Donation: 7-10 EUR
To The World
In this sixteen-page comic zine, a Palestinian youth is determined to travel the world and share her culture. Rising against her dreams are the realities of genocide in Gaza. Surviving hardships and humiliations, she pens her small message and sends it on a kite to…
Minimum Donation: 7-10 EUR
In the Depth of Gaza
Composed of suspenseful narrative essays and poetry, this is a storyteller’s urgent endeavor to reweave the threads of self and community as they are torn to shreds. The depth of Gaza is an unfathomable silenc…
Minimum Donation: 10-15 EUR
The City's Memory
A poetic recollection of Gaza’s living inheritance, shared and multiplied among its inhabitants. The memories of the author, although personal, are testimonies of the city, the land, the people, the persistence of a place that refuses to be erased. Sights and so…
Minimum Donation: 7-10 EUR
I Am Not a Number
A collection of seven articles, written by Nour Abo Aisha and published in leading media outlets throughout 2025. The titles of these writings correspond to the twists and turns of Apartheid Israel’s genocidal tyranny in Gaza, which Nour …
Minimum Donation: 10-15 EUR
A Drop of Grief
In this twenty-four page zine, eleven poems provide a window view into a soul willing itself not to break while witnessing a world of death, condemned upon Gaza.
Minimum Donation: 7-10 EUR
Someone's Daughter
A young couple meets in the ruins, defying everything, stealing moments to feel human once again. Above them, an eye watches from a distance. Between the watcher and the watched, a single moment will decide everything. Fast-moving and tender…
Minimum Donation: 7-10 EUR
Between Estrangement, My Mom, and Gaza
Originally written in Arabic, this short story fictionalizes heart-breaking conversations, shared between the author and his mother during the genocide. Separated by distance …
Minimum Donation: 7-10 EUR
Echoes of Survival
Focused and unflinching, this collection of seven narrative articles surveys the immensity of an unfolding genocide with an eye intent on rebuilding and reclaiming every inch of Palestinian life in Gaza. Within the spirit of …
Minimum Donation: 10-15 EUR
A Prisoner Amidst the Ruins
An edgy, 20-page zine with a strong visual narrative to match the author’s reflections on life inside Gaza after annihilation. When nothing remains, where might a person’s roots cling? The answer: your empathy, dear Reader. Here is a voice from the future.
Minimum Donation: 7-10 EUR
Our Pulse Against the Drones
Quiet notes of the heart form a melody of survival in this collection of 22 original poems. A voice is not just a voice in Gaza. It is a pulse and a testament to the strength of the human spirit to outlast the severest measures of…
Minimum Donation: 10 EUR
Last Eve in Gaza
This collection of seven poems tells the story of Eve, who fed the world from her body with love and received nothing but hurt. She is brave, ambitious, hopeful, with lots of dreams. It’s a story of an oppressed femininity. It’s the paradox of hope & war. The …
Minimum Donation: 7-10 EUR
Beneath Gaza's Stars
These are not just poems. They are living documents—breath, soil, grief, and starlight. They are Palestine. A collection of 13 poems, inspired by the stars above Gaza and eyes that search for meaning and direction when all has be…
Minimum Donation: 7-10 EUR
Am I a Survivor?
Full of the readiness for spring after a long winter, this collection of eight poems yearns for fresh seasons of the soul, unmarked by suffering and desolation. A tender work for the rebirth of souls, beautifully composed and illustrate…
Minimum Donation: 10 EUR
Reflections on Displacement in Three Parts
Through a series of three dispatches, the author recounts her experiences as a university student navigating ongoing displacement. The series, Reflections on Displacement In Three Parts, traces practices of resilience that have emerged for …
Minimum Donation: 10 EUR
Give Sorrow Words: A Tribute to Mama & Ameer, Whose Voices Now Ring Out From Heaven
The tragedies of Shakespeare pale in comparison to these poems out of Gaza. In a “to-be-or-not-to-be genocide,” the limits of language are severely tested and emotions reach their last breaths. Besieged, bel…
Minimum Donation: 10-15 EUR
Stray Bullet
A collection of eight poems that question notions of mercy and identity formation when children casually die on the streets and under tents. Vices rain upon a society stripped of its being, flayed before international onlookers, and grasping at…
Minimum Donation: 7-10 EUR
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The Fifth Shadow of the Sun
The Fifth Shadow of the Sun is a collection of poems written during the genocide in Gaza. While my soul was besieged by death from all sides, I saw poetry as our only means of immortalizing our lives. As I try to escape a reality ri…
Minimum Donation: 7-10 EUR
When Did We Fade?
Originally written in Arabic, this personal story captures the poignancy of strength in Palestinian society and thirsts after the “spring of tenderness,” embodied in motherhood. Deprived of existence, trapped within…
Minimum Donation: 7-10 EUR
Midnight Thoughts in Gaza
An earnest reflection upon universal suffering through the telescopic traumas of Gaza. Drones light the night, replacing shooting stars, while residents shelter in the bareness of dust and sky. Words of compassion, of deep contemplation, roam the wreckag…
Minimum Donation: 7-10 EUR
All That Remains of Me
A poetic, perspective-shifting narrative that pulses with emotion. Bare and bereft of the material substance that once grounded identity, the self is composed of shadows that shift like tides within the soul.
Minimum Donation: 7-10 EUR
Memoirs of a Fallen Star
Striking visual and poetic structures characterize this sensational work of poetry. Originally written in Arabic, poems are organized in two parts. The first selection explores themes of loss while the second is a passionate embrace between …
Minimum Donation: 10-15 EUR
What the Cameras Couldn't Capture
Life for Shaza and her family has been a chronology of war for as long as she and her relatives can remember. A mother, a psychologist, and sign-language interpreter, Shaza possesses…
Minimum Donation: 10-15 EUR
Rain Was Once a Promise
Rain once carried the promise of spring, of hope, of better days for Gaza. Now, it seeps through tents, bringing fragility and fatigue. Today, tomorrow, and forever, Gaza has changed, transformed by immeasurable pain. In this collection of 21 original poe…
Minimum Donation: 7-10 EUR
Breathe
Both a personal project and a showcase of the author’s skills in creative writing, storytelling, narrative journalism, and documenting. It is called Breathe because when our world collapses around us, we often feel besieged, unable to spea…
Minimum Donation: 10 EUR
Waiting for the Butterfly
An intimate pursuit of the will to keep going, despite heavy loss and destruction. Hope for transformation, for a better life, is as fragile as a butterfly’s wings and more fleeting. Gaza’s youngest generation suffers the loss of nearly five years of e…
Minimum Donation: 10 EUR
Don't Leave Us Behind
A work of intensity, charm, and precision, this 26-page zine shatters apathy, humiliates w…
Minimum Donation: 10 EUR
Shards of the Soul
With what paper remains unburned and the last drops of ink, Noor documents her survival. This zine is her way to unravel the impact of war on her mind and soul; a testament to what was endured and what still persists. From her belief that everyo…
Minimum Donation: 7-10 EUR
Where should we bloom...
A collection of personal essays that grapple with the intensity of destruction in Gaza whilst tracking the light that a child’s innocence can cast on the worst situations. The author offers her testimony “because the words wi…
Minimum Donation: 7-10 EUR
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Echoes from a Fallen Kingdom
Forgotten tales verge on reawakening in this collection of fourteen original poems. Rhythmic, gem-like language recovers the soul of a lost kingdom and its heroic sons and daughters, whose trials of betrayal hav…
Minimum Donation: 10 EUR
I Failed to Water It
How is war born? By the bullet of a rifle—or by a mind surrendering to the failures of humanity? Delicate poems and illustrations render the fragility of personhood in a life born of a war. This collection of …
Minimum Donation: 10 EUR
Fragments of a Soul
A work that laments and comforts the soul through song. Beautifully composed in flawless rhythmic, rhyming verse, these poems escape the bounds of burden and affliction and discover the mercy of higher judgement.
Minimum Donation: 10 EUR
Between Illusion and Survival
An account of how fear and hope are so intricately woven into reality and how, sometimes, one small step is all we can strive for.
Minimum Donation: 10 EUR








































