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CPH Zine Fest
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A celebration of zines - small press - art books. CPH Zine Fest celebrates and uplifts artwork by the marginalized, makes space for those us...
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Her
This zine is about worshipping the divinity in nature and how God is where ever you meet her; it relies on prose like visual imagery that moves the reader along the process that happens when faih becomes full fledged. You can download here: http://bisha.neocities.org/Her.pdf
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The Hypermobile Diaries
This zine takes a look at hypermobility; which is a bit more than just being flexible. It includes what it is- some traits I had, how it went undiagnosed and how physical therapy made a difference. You can download here: https://bishaxo.itch.io/the-hypermobile-diaries
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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. “How does a soul find calm when all day it stares, remembers, and dreams, stands between fantasies one cannot live, a yesterday one cannot return to, a tomorrow coming that can’t be trusted?” Composed of inner dialogue and reflections on life in Gaza since October 2023, this poem-essay navigates the seemingly eternal rain, its washing away of certainties, and the hopelessness and anger all this brings. Get Your Copy: https://www.coastallinespress.com/p/between-illusion-and-survival
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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. Get Your Copy: https://www.coastallinespress.com/p/fragments-of-a-soul
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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 seven original poems bids no farewell to Gaza. Both soul and homeland stand in ruins, scorched and riven apart. But a poet’s heart refuses to relinquish the bond of love between language and land. Get Your Copy: https://www.coastallinespress.com/p/i-failed-to-water-it
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Echoes of 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 have exceeded all bounds. Get Your Copy: https://www.coastallinespress.com/p/echoes-of-a-fallen-kingdom
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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 will stay alive after our death, and because the tales are hard sometimes, we write, to live after our deaths.” Get Your Copy: https://www.coastallinespress.com/p/where-should-we-bloom
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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 everyone must resist by any means, she has found in her writings a weapon of resistance: a way to expose the occupier’s brutality to the world. Get Your Copy: https://www.coastallinespress.com/p/shards-of-the-soul
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Don't Leave Us Behind
A work of intensity, charm, and precision, this 26-page zine shatters apathy, humiliates world leaders, and uplifts the voices of the oppressed. Get Your Copy: https://www.coastallinespress.com/p/dont-leave-us-behind
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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 education. The Gaza Great Minds School is an inspiring initiative, sustaining the love for education within Palestine’s youth and culture. This zine offers beautiful written and visual portraits of several students in the program. “The weight of grief and fear is heavy on the smallest of shoulders.” Get Your Copy: https://www.coastallinespress.com/p/waiting-for-the-butterfly
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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. Get Your Copy: https://www.coastallinespress.com/p/questions-on-my-mind-a-sequel
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A Trapped Dream
Narrated in first-person vignettes, A Trapped Dream is the author’s harrowing account of life in Gaza during the genocide. The morning of October 7, 2023 was meant to be her first day of university. Since then, time has stood still, unable to progress past war and devastation to the dreams Marwa still holds inside. Get Your Copy: https://www.coastallinespress.com/p/a-trapped-dream
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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 her in this ongoing crisis, through interwoven vignettes, poetry and photographs. The work meditates on the university as a dual form of shelter, as both physical sanctuary in crisis and symbolic locus of writerly production as resistance. Get Your Copy: https://www.coastallinespress.com/p/reflections-on-displacement-in-three
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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 speak or even take a breath. We feel as if we are suffocating. Writing becomes the way to breathe, survive, and give voice to stories that need to be heard. Comprised of poems and articles published in various media outlets. Get Your Copy: https://www.coastallinespress.com/p/breathe
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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 poems, the poet preserves the promise of personhood she once held before everything, including her home, was taken away. Get Your Copy: https://www.coastallinespress.com/p/rain-was-once-a-promise
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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 a unique point of view, which she articulates with strength and defiance. This personal account of the ongoing genocide in Gaza is told in three parts that address painful realities of displacement, childhood under siege, and death. Get Your Copy: https://www.coastallinespress.com/p/what-the-cameras-couldnt-capture
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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 on the Gaza strip begins. Life stops, schools close, and workplaces shutdown. Tasneem is faced with two options: watch her dreams fade into ruin or keep them alive no matter how fragile and uncertain her heart becomes. Get Your Copy: https://www.coastallinespress.com/p/however-fragile
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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 poet and homeland. With artful illustrations and layout to match the originality of its poetry, this is a must-have zine. Get Your Copy: https://www.coastallinespress.com/p/memoirs-of-a-fallen-star
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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. Get Your Copy: https://www.coastallinespress.com/p/all-that-remains-of-me
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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 wreckage in search of answers. Logic leads to humanity, its pride and stubbornness, its destructive capacity to walk the earth like a breed of monsters, incapable of witnessing the future because they bury it in Gaza with their own hands. Get Your Copy: https://www.coastallinespress.com/p/midnight-thoughts-in-gaza
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