New Releases: Butterflies and Blooms Amidst Betrayal
Waiting for the Butterfly, Shards of the Soul, Where should we bloom?, and Echoes from a Fallen Kingdom
We’ve added so many new zines to our 2026 collection over the past few months. Inspired by spring motifs and lineages of land, these works resist the industrial appropriation of biological life systems and the reduction of human heritage to dust and ash. Congratulations Noor Arif, Noor El Halabi, Nadera Mushtha, Farah Elbahnasawi and Huda Skaik! May your words bloom in countless hearts and minds.
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…
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…
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…
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…
Planted Genocide in My Mind
A collection of memories, glimpses and fragments shaped by living through two years of genocide in Gaza and its aftermath. You will find fragments rather than conclusions, questions rather than answers. Some pages may fe…
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