We must occasionally find pleasure in our folly, or we cannot continue to find pleasure in our wisdom. —Friedrich Nietzsche1 …
Author: Tom Haviv
Zero
Danna Grace Windsor is an award-winning Israeli animation artist. She explores our surreal existence through dreamlike visuals with dystopian themes. Her …
Moonship Dispatch 7 & Excerpts from the BARA Manifesto
Moonship Dispatch 7 Excerpts from the BARA Manifesto II. A long time ago, we set out to create something. In …
Origin Complex Fire & Other Poems
Origin Complex Fire 5778 I dreamed as though the past was threaded through the future. I returned to find my …
Introduction
How did the rupture between Arab and Jewish worlds come to affect us collectively and individually?
L’Orientale | Line Monty
As the song continues, it opens up, revealing contradictory layers underneath.
Ala Srir Ennoum | Habiba Msika
Msika’s bold nonconformity and tragic fate resonated deeply with her contemporaries, and fascinate me now.
Abiadi Ana | Zohra Elfassia
When I think of Zohra Elfassia’s “Abiadi Ana,” I think of my paternal grandmother.
Rimoun Rametni | Salim Halali
Al-Ala, the music of al-Andalus, has always been present in my family. It was a sort of familiar hum in our lives and rituals.
Coda
While preparing our own interpretations of these divas’ songs, we tried to creatively reconstruct a relationship to identity and history that was expansive and intersectional.