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Baladi Magazine @baladimagazine.bsky.social · 27/12/2025

"What the Living Do When Ceasefire is Announced." Poem by Lisa Suhair Majaj Artwork: _Perseverance_ by Lisa Suhair Majaj #Palestine baladimagazine.com/what-the-liv...

Impressionist painting of the trunks and branches of olive trees in Palestine. Painting title is Perseverance.

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Baladi Magazine @baladimagazine.bsky.social · 26/12/2025

baladimagazine.com/in-my-dreams... In My Dreams, I Always Have a Chance. Poem by Lubna Ahmad Abu Dahrouj #Gaza

Image of clouds with dark clouds in the front and white clouds in back lit by sunlight.

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Baladi Magazine @baladimagazine.bsky.social · 26/12/2025

ll pleut des yeux – It’s raining eyes. Poem and illustration by Sarah Younan. baladimagazine.com/ll-pleut-des...

A circle like a window with an image of woman's body in red at the bottom of the circle. Clouds and blue sky at the topc of the circle. The background looks like notepaper. As if the drawing is on notepaper.

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Baladi Magazine @baladimagazine.bsky.social · 26/12/2025

The Compelling Artistry of Marah Khaled #Gaza baladimagazine.com/the-compelli...

Imaage of a boy wearing a kaffiyeh holding a slingshot and wrapped in flowering vines.

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Baladi Magazine @baladimagazine.bsky.social · 26/12/2025

This is Beyond Genocide by Khaled Al-Qershali #Gaza baladimagazine.com/this-is-beyo...

Image of people displaced onto the beach in Gaza

Children play in the ruins of a building in Gaza

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Baladi Magazine @baladimagazine.bsky.social · 26/12/2025

Hermon. Poem and illustration by Sarah Younan baladimagazine.com/hermon/

Watercolor painting of Mount Hermon by Sarah Younan

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Baladi Magazine @baladimagazine.bsky.social · 26/12/2025

Embracing Life’s Simple Pleasures. Poem by Reem Sleem. Art by Shahd Rajab. baladimagazine.com/embracing-li...

Drawing of a window with a green curtain on the left with an olive branch over it, black window curtain on the right,m and red at the top to look like a Palestinian flag. The window has a kaffeyeh pattern. Red poppy flowers are at the top.

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Baladi Magazine @baladimagazine.bsky.social · 26/12/2025

Twenty Months in Deir Al-Ballah. Essay by Khaled Al-Qershali. #Gaza baladimagazine.com/twenty-month...

Image of street scene with people walking.

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Baladi Magazine @baladimagazine.bsky.social · 26/12/2025

Half an Hour in Gaza. Poem by Hala Al Khatib. baladimagazine.com/half-an-hour...

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Baladi Magazine @baladimagazine.bsky.social · 26/12/2025

They Want Me Bare of Flesh. Poem by Adel Ramadi. #Gaza baladimagazine.com/they-want-me...

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Baladi Magazine @baladimagazine.bsky.social · 26/12/2025

Suspended. Poem by Shoug Basem Mukhaimar. Art by Ahmed Header Ashour. #Gaza baladimagazine.com/suspended/

Painting of woman in the back of an ambulance mourning over a corpse.

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Baladi Magazine @baladimagazine.bsky.social · 26/12/2025

To The Moon. Poem by Menna Saber Abo Salem. Photo Taken By Malak Al-shrafi #Gaza

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Baladi Magazine @baladimagazine.bsky.social · 26/12/2025

The Universal Symbol of Life: In Dialogue with Nicola Mastroserio’s Art and Philosophical Perspective. Interview with Nicola Mastroserio. Art by Nicola Mastroserio. baladimagazine.com/the-universa...

Image of different size cubes withing a circle.

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Baladi Magazine @baladimagazine.bsky.social · 26/12/2025

Burning Soul. Poem by Menna Saber Abo Salem Art by Enas Yousef Esmail Marouf #Gaza baladimagazine.com/burning-soul/

Image of girl who seems to be sleeping, A kaffiyeh is wrapped around her shoulders. Her head is thrown back with eyes closed.

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Baladi Magazine @baladimagazine.bsky.social · 26/12/2025

A Thousand Eyes Speak: Interview with Artist Enas Marouf. #Gaza baladimagazine.com/a-thousand-e...

Image of a girl with a bloody blindfold on, She is surrounded by eyes with different expressions.

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Baladi Magazine @baladimagazine.bsky.social · 26/12/2025

Pregnancy And Motherhood Amid Genocide in Gaza. Essay by Itemad baladimagazine.com/pregnancy-an...

Itemad's newborn baby laying on a blanket.

Itemad's child who is a toddler with a kitten.

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Baladi Magazine @baladimagazine.bsky.social · 26/12/2025

Winter in Tents. Poem by Khaled Al-Qershali Photo by Khaled Al-Qershali #Gaza baladimagazine.com/winter-in-te...

Image of an icy street with the sun setting behind a building. A man stands in sillhouette on the right.

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Baladi Magazine @baladimagazine.bsky.social · 26/12/2025

It Shall Pass. Poem by Lubna Ahmad Abu Dahrouj Art by Ahmed Header Ashour #Gaza baladimagazine.com/it-shall-pass/

Image of mother holding a child with blood on the child's shroud.

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Baladi Magazine @baladimagazine.bsky.social · 26/12/2025

I am Gaza. Poem by Donya Abu Sitta “When I Let My Pen Embody The Genocide Through Symbols.” Artwork by Donya Abu Sitta #Gaza baladimagazine.com/i-am-gaza/

Pen and in drawing of artifacts in Gaza. An ambulance, praying hands, an empty cooking pot with a text bubble that says Famine.

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Baladi Magazine @baladimagazine.bsky.social · 26/12/2025

GAZA: LETTERS FROM THE END OF THE WORLD SELECTED POEMS OF TAQWA AHMED AL-WAWI #Gaza baladimagazine.com/gaza-letters...

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Baladi Magazine @baladimagazine.bsky.social · 26/12/2025

Book Review: The Psychoanalytic Imagination in Dr. Alan Kikani’s The Obsessed #Syria baladimagazine.com/the-psychoan...

Arabic book cover of The Obsessed. The title is in Arabic and it shows the silhouettes of two men who are facing each other.

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Baladi Magazine @baladimagazine.bsky.social · 26/12/2025

Soft Rains. Poem by Farah Elbahnasawi Photo Credit: Taqwa Ahmed Al-Wawi baladimagazine.com/soft-rains/

Image of fog with clouds in the background and dark shadowed trees in the foreground.

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Baladi Magazine @baladimagazine.bsky.social · 26/12/2025

Laila Kassab: A Beating Heart of Colors in Gaza Interview by Taqwa Ahmed Al-Wawi #Gaza baladimagazine.com/laila-kassab...

image of a purple horse with a woman sitting on its back. The horse is running on a green field, Another woman holding a dove is on the right. The Sun is above.

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A_FROG_IN_TIME @afrogintime.bsky.social · 21/09/2025

Well, I have written a book. It will be available for pre-order in the next 72 hours and available to buy from Amazon 30th September. Carpentry In the Elven Forest - a roller coaster of a fantasy quest told in glorious comedy.

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Spotlight Indie @spotlightindie.bsky.social · 30/09/2025

We are delighted to help share the cover reveal and launch of Carpentry in the Elven Forest, Alex French's fantasy debut. Featuring an epic quest, a mysterious stranger and a sarcastic badger! Happy book launch, @afrogintime.bsky.social! You can learn more here: spotlightindie.co.uk?p=2010

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Layla Azmi Goushey @laylaazmigoushey.bsky.social · 18/10/2025

My poetry chapbook Al-Doukan - الدكان- The Shop is now available for preorder at Lunette Press lunette-press.com

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John Joseph Adams @johnjosephadams.com · 10/10/2025

Since it's Black Speculative Fiction Month, I thought I'd share a story I love by a Black author each day. Since I'm starting 10 days in, I'll post a bunch to catch up. I'm going to do 15 from the Top 80 of Best American Science Fiction and Fantasy and 15 from Lightspeed/Nightmare.

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Reverend Jesus "H" Christ @reverendjesus.com · 10/10/2025

Blessed are the frogs, for they keep making authoritarians look incredibly stupid

Three persons in inflatable frog costumes. One of them is holding a nicely painted sign with two little cartoon frogs holding hands, below the text "FROGS TOGETHER STRONG"

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Layla Azmi Goushey @laylaazmigoushey.bsky.social · 11/10/2025

My chapbook الدكان -The Shop published by Lunette Press out soon.

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J. D. Harlock @jdharlock.bsky.social · 03/07/2025

Baladi Magazine (@baladimagazine.bsky.social) has published an English translation of one of my Arabic poems! Many thanks to editor @laylaazmigoushey.bsky.social 🙏 Read it for free here: baladimagazine.com/%d8%a8%d9%8a... #poem #poetry #Arabic #Arab #MENA #SWANA #publishingnews #writingcommunity

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Baladi Magazine @baladimagazine.bsky.social · 09/08/2025

I pay writers and artists for their work, and my current focus is on publishing mentoring and publishing Palestinian - Gazan and Sudanese writers and artists due to the genocides currently taking place. Even a small donation makes a tremendous difference. ko-fi.com/baladimagazine

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Sonia Sulaiman @soniasulaiman.bsky.social · 09/06/2025

Very humbled to be in such incredible company in the finalist list for the Ember Award!

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Sonia Sulaiman @soniasulaiman.bsky.social · 09/06/2025

Big proud of all of the contributors to Thyme Travellers-- now an Ignyte Award nominated anthology of Palestinian Speculative Fiction!

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FIYAH Literary Magazine @fiyahlitmag.bsky.social · 02/04/2025

Good morning! FIYAH Issue No. 34 is NOW LIVE! You don't want to miss this phenomenal collection of stories and poems. Download yours now 🔥🔥🔥 fiyahlitmag.com/issues/issue...

FIYAH Literary Magazine Issue No. 34, featuring a haunting, spectral image for the cover art.

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Jamal abu hashem🇵🇸 @jamalzuhir.bsky.social · 21/05/2025

I’m jamal from gaza under so hard and herrible situation since about 19 months, I had two birthdays under this gencide, my wishes was this end in my birthday, is there any hope still? You can help and support me here after we lost everything we have and all your don appreciated gofund.me/a625d5ba

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Jamal abu hashem🇵🇸 @jamalzuhir.bsky.social · 20/05/2025

Here is jamal software engineer from gaza Help me rebuild my family life, small amount plus small amount we will have big amount, we lost everything and we suffer everyday we lost home and university and our city and all our life Small amount makes big difference Support here gofund.me/a625d5ba

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Moudhy Al-Rashid (she/her) @moudhy.bsky.social · 20/02/2025

Happy Publication Day to me! 🎉😱🥹🧿 Between Two Rivers: Ancient Mesopotamia and the Birth of History is officially out! It’s a history of the region through objects found in an ancient museum in Princess Ennigaldi-Nanna’s palace, and I hope you all like it 💛 lnk.to/BetweenTwoRi...

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Layla Azmi Goushey @laylaazmigoushey.bsky.social · 03/05/2025

The U.S. funded genocide in Gaza continues, food has not been allowed to enter for weeks, and the population is being starved to death.

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Jamal abu hashem🇵🇸 @jamalzuhir.bsky.social · 03/05/2025

Gaza people are starving now, this is unfair

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Cats of Yore @catsofyore.bsky.social · 22/04/2025

Gorgeous photo from The Color Nature Library: CATS by Peggy Wratten, 1977. I can't find the photographer's name, unfortunately. None is noted anywhere in the book.

Beautiful photo of an orange tabby tuxedo cat gazing out of a window with a crack in the glass. The wood trim on the window is an almost identical orange to the cat's coat. So much orange could be too much with no contrast but in this photo is works brilliantly.

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Abby @aspenceart.bsky.social · 21/04/2025

the hart of the forest #art

A green stag stands atop a hill, his antlers fill the top of the page and are filled with plants and birds. In the hill he stands on, a doe leaps over her fawn. Below them two foxes chase a rabbit who waits at the opening of a warren.

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Layla Azmi Goushey @laylaazmigoushey.bsky.social · 12/04/2025

“A book, too, can be a star, “explosive material, capable of stirring up fresh life endlessly,” a living fire to lighten the darkness, leading out into the expanding universe.” ― Madeleine L'Engle, Newbery Award Acceptance Speech: The Expanding Universe (August 1963) (Cr. NASA)

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Ally Wilkes / AV Wilkes @unheimlichmanvr.bsky.social · 11/04/2025

Had an extremely cool Friday night watching Fungi: Web of Life with Merlin Sheldrake at the Royal Geographic Society! One for the weird ecology and sporror crowd, and SUCH a fabulous live Q&A with Merlin who just seems like the world's nicest and most interesting mushroom nerd 🍄

Ally, a white skinned person with long dark hair, is smiling at the camera and proudly displaying her signed copy of Merlin Sheldrake's ENTANGLED LIFE, a black-covered book with psychedelic style primary-coloured mushrooms on it. She's sitting outside a red brick building with some metal railings. Not pictured: white wine.

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Petra Pavlíková @elsinor.bsky.social · 11/04/2025

A picture from the forest. 🌿 #ForestFriday #FungiFriday #Moss

Picture of an autumnal forest. In the foreground is the forest floor with a mushroom, fallen leaves, and a piece of decomposing wood covered with moss and lichen.

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Astronomy 🔭 @astronomy.bsky.social · 10/04/2025

Sometimes, the Moon passes directly in front of the beautiful Pleiades star cluster in a celestial event called an occultation! This composite image from Spain captures the Moon's visit. These monthly occultations last until 2029, then not again until 2042! Credit: Cayetana Saiz

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Noah Oskow @noahoskow.bsky.social · 10/04/2025

Oh to be a red-eared snapper turtle sunning oneself in a pond at a centuries-old zen temple in the ancient shogunal capital.

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Jonathan Slater @jonathanslater.bsky.social · 10/04/2025

Best cat video of the day

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