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Culture, Literature and the Arts

Nathan Wasserman

What Will Come

What Will ComeWhat will come after the creak of the iron?The era of silver falling apart, the era of beaten gold,The days of sinking eye pupils, the opulence of rustdying. Memorial days will stick to ...

Vol. 30 No. 1&2 2026

Samer Abu Hawwash

It No Longer Matters If Anyone Loves Us

It No Longer MattersIf Anyone Loves Us It no longer mattersif anyone loves us.The love of the great angelin his bright white skyis enough.Our children see him standing in the distance,holding his...

Vol. 30 No. 1&2 2026

Hiba Abu Nada

Not Just Passing

Not Just PassingYesterday, a star saidto the little light in my heart,We are not just transientspassing.Do not die. Beneath this glowsome wanderers go onwalking.You were first created out of love,so c...

Vol. 30 No. 1&2 2026

Hiba Abu Nada

I Grant You Refuge

I Grant You Refuge1.I grant you refugein invocation and prayer.I bless the neighborhood and the minaretto guard themfrom the rocketfrom the momentit is a general’s commanduntil it becomesa raid.I gran...

Vol. 30 No. 1&2 2026

Kebir Ammi

Moroccan Poem

Sketch a Happy Palestine

Sketch me a Palestinewith children chasing a ballin a vacant lotSketch me a Palestine that looks like uswith happy shouts that rise to the skybut never reach for the moonor the stars when they d...

Vol. 29 No. 34 2025

Refaat Alareer

Palestinian Poem

If I must Die

If I must die,you must liveto tell my storyto sell my thingsto buy a piece of clothand some strings,(make it white with a long tail)so that a child, somewhere in Gazawhile looking heaven in the eyeawa...

Vol. 29 No. 34 2025

Roni Eldad

Israeli Poems

I am telling the children What Do you See

I am telling the children Once there was a bird, once there was a pretty bird,common like a sparrow or a palm dove, its voicelike the wind whispering among the poplar’s leaves.Its nest was ...

Vol. 29 No. 34 2025

Liana Badr

Letters from the Sea

(Everything here is reported by the young man who found the bottle.)This small light-emitting machine is currently still decoding the letters I extracted from the bottle I found floating in the sea a ...

Vol. 28 No. 3&4 2023

Michal Rubin

A rewrite

I kneel down to pick up one red anemone I thought was there the image of red gets buried in the downpour of grey dust Nothing is left but a rewrite of stor...

Vol. 28 No. 3&4 2023

Almog Behar

Civil War

Who will read the poems about the civil war After the civil war ends? Who will feel the taste of blood on the tongue When the ink dries? Who will curse the foreigners after the ban...

Vol. 28 No. 3&4 2023

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