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🐶🐱 This week I'm very excited to have another guest post, this time by poet Sara Farhat . Sara's going to introduce us to Sulala Animal Rescue, the only animal rescue in Gaza!

Learn about Sulala (and read some of Sara's beautiful poetry) at imagopalestina.substack.com/p/guest-post...
A black and white digital graphite drawing of two Afro-Palestinian men and a dog. Top left is Saeed Al-Err, middle aged, looking over his shoulder. Middle right is Sa'ed Al-Err, his adult son, roughly 30. Both have kind eyes, short cropped hair, and short beards. The dog, bottom left, is a medium sized breed with big, wet eyes and floppy ears.
March 16, 2025 at 11:03 PM
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🕊 This week I'm thinking about peace, the justice needed to get us there, and the fools who believe peace can ever come through a tighter fist.

Read my thoughts at imagopalestina.substack.com/p/israel-is-...
March 9, 2025 at 5:41 PM
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I've literally met that guy on the left. (CW for racist nonsense. Video cropped & vignetted to protect the identities of other protesters, but this was at UofT)
March 8, 2025 at 5:48 AM
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🏡 This week, I've been devestated by the continued ethnic cleansing across the West Bank, so I wanted to share the story of Essam Awad, someone who's experienced this violence firsthand. Read more about his story and the situation in the West Bank at imagopalestina.substack.com/p/essam-awad...
March 3, 2025 at 1:13 AM
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🍄Throwback to this page from a little collab comic that unfortunately never materialized. It was gonna be a fictional hourly comic about an inky cap mushroom (I think they even had a name?) where everyone drew a different hour. Honestly it's still one of my favourite pages of mine 😅
A black and white comic page of a mushroom waking up at 1am and being frightened by a late night cooking show. It's drawn in a horror style. The mushroom makes popcorn, sits down in front of the TV (text: "Sleep proves elusive..."), turns on a show where a spooky woman is cutting into a mushroom, gets scared, and hides behind he couch (text: "Late night programming only makes it worse.")
February 24, 2025 at 6:54 PM
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This week I want to introduce you to 13-year-old Zakariya Barbakh. Why him? As Israel keeps trying to torpedo the ceasefire and shift the blame, it's important to remember that they've been breaking the ceasefire since day 1, starting by murdering Zakariya. Read more at ImagoPalestina.Substack.com
February 24, 2025 at 3:25 AM
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⚔️🛡️👻 if you see this, post a knight

A nearly-there WIP of a player character from my new D&D campaign (sorry Graham I promise I'll finish her 🙏)
A digital pencil drawing of a shiny, stoic knight flanked by a ghostly woman, smiling and waving
February 17, 2025 at 7:19 AM
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📚 This week I'd love to introduce you to Mahmoud Muna, the manager of the Educational Bookshop in East Jerusalem! Mahmoud and his brother Ahmad were arrested on Monday for selling history books, art books, and...a colouring book.

Read more at imagopalestina.substack.com/p/mahmoud-mu...
February 17, 2025 at 3:01 AM
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🐲🎥 This week I'm excited to introduce you to Eissa Fanous, an artist, Nakba survivor, and one of the subjects of the excellent documentary, Lyd (2024). I wrote a little bit about Eissa, his story, and the power of Palestinian filmmaking, at imagopalestina.substack.com/p/eissa-fano...
February 10, 2025 at 12:39 AM
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🌱 This week I've been thinking a lot about returning, as I've watched our neighbours in Gaza return to their homes to find tearful reunions and heartbreaking devastation.

Learn more about what their facing and read my thoughts on "returning" at imagopalestina.substack.com/p/rajieen-re...
February 2, 2025 at 11:13 PM
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Today I'm thinking about Jenin, the violence of the occupation after a ceasefire, and the power of ideas.

I'd like to introduce you to Motaz, a 16 year old from Jenin who was martyred this week as part of Israel's Operation Iron Wall. Rest in power, Motaz.

Read more at imagopalestina.substack.com
January 26, 2025 at 8:35 PM
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Everyone peep my new D&D character. She will steal ur magical items

🚫RACHEL DO NOT LOOK AT THIS🚫
A greyscale digital pencil-style illustration of a butch looking woman nursing a split lip while looking at the viewer with a sly smile. She's wearing a white, collared, sleeveless shirt and high rise pants that both look somewhat medieval, as well as many rings and necklaces. Behind her, a tartan garment is draped over a table surface.
January 24, 2025 at 4:18 AM
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🧠✨Today I'm thinking about mental health and liberation! Allow me to introduce you to one who has a lot more experience on the subject than me: Dr. Samah Jabr!

Read my reflections on her amazing work at imagopalestina.substack.com/p/dr-samah-j...
A greyscale pencil-style drawing of a smiling Palestinian woman, Dr. Samah Jabr, wearing a headscarf. A glowing yellow illustration of a brain and her name hover above her.
January 23, 2025 at 2:32 AM
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🇵🇸✌️ I bet you know what I'm thinking about today.

Read my thoughts at imagopalestina.substack.com/p/she-opened...

(And shout out to @mohamhawish.bsky.social whose updates I've been clinging to throughout this week)
A close up illustration in a greyscale pencil style of a young girl's eyes, just having opened. Her face is covered in grime and debris and she isn't quite able to make eye contact, as if she's dazed. Blue glowing text reads "She opened her eyes!"
January 19, 2025 at 11:34 PM
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🌥💖 Today I’m thinking about hope, imagination, and better ‘nows’ and ‘not yets.’ Let me introduce you to Dr. Lamma Mansour, a Palestinian Christian scholar who’s got some useful insight. Read my thoughts (and get a link to hers) in the slides or at imagopalestina.substack.com/p/dr-lamma-m...
January 11, 2025 at 8:52 PM
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🤡🤝 Today I'm thinking about clowns, solidarity, and showing up for our neighbours by giving them the resources they need to meet the needs they know best.

Allow me to introduce you to The Sameer Project! You can read my thoughts at imagopalestina.substack.com/p/the-sameer...
January 8, 2025 at 8:27 PM
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⌛📅 I'm thinking about the New Year (because aren't we all), and the utility of drawing lines in the sand. Read my thoughts at imagopalestina.substack.com/p/a-line-in-...

(Thanks to Ashaf Amra for the photo I used for reference)
January 4, 2025 at 8:05 PM
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#FreeDrHussamAbuSafiya

If you've been plugged in, you've heard what's happening to our neighbour, Dr. Hussam, and why we all need to be calling for his release. If you haven't, I've written an update, including actions to help, at imagopalestina.substack.com/p/free-dr-hu...
A glowing orange silhouette of Dr. Hussam Abu Safiya's head, in profile. Set against black and white illustrations of medical equipment from Kamal Adwan hospital. Text reading "Free Dr. Hussam!" is in the centre.
January 1, 2025 at 12:26 AM
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🌟 "They will call him Immanuel, which means 'God is with us." 🌟

Let me introduce you to a Palestinian family I've been thinking a lot about lately. Read my thoughts at imagopalestina.substack.com/p/yousef-mar...
Three Palestinians. One, a man with wavy hair, a moustache, and a melancholy expression, labelled "Yousef." Another, a woman with a headscarf that exposes the front of her hair, also looking melancholy, labelled "Maryam." The third, a baby, sleeping, labelled "Yusa." A glowing purple star hovers over them on the right.
December 24, 2024 at 8:47 PM
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🐑👼 Today I'm thinking about shepherds, fear, and the complexity of the "ordinary." Meet Ali Awad, an activist in Masafer Yatta who protects Palestinian shepherds while we in the rest are too focused on shepherds from 2000 years ago.
imagopalestina.substack.com/p/ali-awad-a...
A smiling, bearded Palestinian man, Ali Awad, rendered in greyscale pencil. He's wearing a kuffiyeh on his head, and a glowing symbol featuring a horn, a shepherd's crook, and a halo, is superimposed above him on the left.
December 20, 2024 at 7:54 PM
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🌃 Today I'm thinking about rubble and how our neighbours in Gaza are weighed down by more than just physical destruction. Meet @mohamhawish.bsky.social who wrote about his experience at +972Mag (www.972mag.com/israeli-airs...). Read my thoughts at imagopalestina.substack.com/p/mohammed-r...
December 17, 2024 at 8:42 PM
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Today I'm thinking about the choices we make, the choices of people in power, and most importantly, the legacy of our dear neighbour Mahmoud Almadhoun of Gaza Soup Kitchen.

Read my thoughts at ImagoPalestina.Substack.com and don't forget to join us on Monday (Dec. 9) as we raise some money for GSK!
December 4, 2024 at 11:20 PM
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I've yapped about this all over Insta, but in case you don't follow me there, I'm launching IMAGO PALESTINA VOL. 1 exactly one week from today (Mon. Dec. 9) at Trinity-St. Paul's centre! BUT ALSO I'll be joined by a handful of talented artists selling their work to fundraise for Gaza Soup Kitchen!
December 3, 2024 at 1:02 AM
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my cat WILL NOT STOP making out with this clay angel!!!!
December 2, 2024 at 5:32 AM
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oh my gosh 👁️👁️ I dropped my link to a free copy the most recent issue of Words Plural! I sure hope nobody pins it to the top of my feed for anyone to enjoy 😫
drive.google.com/file/d/1Bvmy...
The cover of my comic, Words Plural: Finders Keepers. A black and white painting of a child with a baseball for a head holding a tiny human head, saying "Finders Keepers." Bright pink accents on the title "words plural" and other small elements. Two panels from a comic. Black and white illustration. The first shows a glowing angelic figure flying away over a snowy mountain range. The second shows a hand, which had been reaching out, slowly lowering, surrounded by snow. A crop of a comic panel. Black and white illustration with grey halftone. A teenage boy with long sweaty hair, wearing a baseball helmet and jersey, is running, surrounded by word bubbles urging him on. A crop of a comic page. Grey, pencil-esque illustration. Two hands reach out against a snowy grey night. Text reads "I'm lost as usual, but the frostbite is new." and "My tear glands are cracked and dry, and the fire ants in my thighs are long frozen."
December 1, 2024 at 5:44 PM