Oil on canvas

Fears, Louise Bourgeois, 1992.

Young female Palestinian liberation fighters, 1973

(Photograph: Abbas Momani/AFP)

— Charles Bowden

الإسكندرية، مصر.

Werner Herzog // "I'm trying to find these rare moments where you feel completely illuminated. Facts never illuminate you. The phone directory of Manhattan doesn't illuminate you, although it has factually correct entries, millions of them. But these rare moments of illumination that you find when you read a great poem, you instantly know. You instantly feel this spark of illumination. You are almost stepping outside of yourself and you see something sublime."

rania matar, "stephanie, beirut, lebanon," 2010

tanya habjouqa, "untitled," n.d. from tomorrow there will be apricots (2012-2017)

And then a Plank in Reason, broke, And I dropped down, and down – And hit a World, at every plunge, And Finished knowing – then –

Kitty between olia leaf 🍀

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Al Quds (Jerusalem), Palestine