Disappointed not to see another incarcerated writer, Nasser Abu Srour, on the list. May he too see freedom soon and never be forgotten. More on his masterpiece , The Tale of a Wall: medium.com/deterritoria...

"I wrote about embroidery as a form of hope, not merely a craft. When I threaded my first stitches, they were not just threads—they were a message, whose words declared: We are still here, dreaming and striving to make our dreams come true."

"My writing about what embroidery means to me was like a butterfly taking flight in a beautiful garden called Palestine Is Everywhere."
This statement describes her essay on tatreez in the forthcoming book. Images above are of Lujayn's own tatreez creations. www.silverpress.org/products/pal...

"I wrote about embroidery as a form of hope, not merely a craft. When I threaded my first stitches, they were not just threads—they were a message, whose words declared: We are still here, dreaming and striving to make our dreams come true."

"Neither it nor I knew what wrong we had committed. And so, I decided to learn embroidery from my neighbour in displacement, Umm Aide, a primary school teacher. I stitched the details of my memory onto everything and from everything, reviving my soul with a dream that had always dwelt within it."

"I would embroider its landmarks into my heart before they settled in my memory. How I longed to learn embroidery, so that the whole world might see the beauty of my homeland, the beauty in its details. Then, one day, they assassinated my little town, and it began to fade from existence."