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Exploring the Past, Engaging the Present, Imagining the Future. #Palestine #Gaza #Sudan #Congo #Indigenous #Solarpunk #Futurism Art Aya Ghanameh. https://ko-fi.com/baladimagazine Editor @LaylaAzmiGoushey.bsky.social “Identity is fluid" - Ruth Ann Skaff

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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.

21.09.2025 18:35 — 👍 2    🔁 2    💬 0    📌 0
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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

30.09.2025 15:03 — 👍 5    🔁 3    💬 0    📌 0
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Nour Hifaoui's Titties: Resistance against censorship in the Arab world - The Comics Journal Even though anglo-comic books never took off in Lebanon, Franco-Belgian comics were a staple of Lebanese childhoods for those who were French-educated until the Internet became a fixture of daily life...

The Comics Journal (@comicsjournal.bsky.social) has just published an article of mine on Lebanese graphic novelist Nour Hifaoui!

www.tcj.com/nour-hifaoui...

#graphicnovel #Arab #Lebanon #comicbooks #publishingnews #writingcommunity

14.08.2025 18:10 — 👍 6    🔁 4    💬 0    📌 0
Rainy night scene of the city of Beirut, Lebanon.

Rainy night scene of the city of Beirut, Lebanon.

" بيروت تمطر"
"Beirut Rains" by
@jdharlock.bsky.social

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09.08.2025 21:43 — 👍 2    🔁 1    💬 0    📌 0
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A poem of mine was featured in the "This Exquisite Topology" anthology released by Angry Gable Press (@angrygablepress.bsky.social)!

You can purchase a copy of it from Amazon today:
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#writingcommunity #publishingnews #sciencefiction #fantasy #scifi #sff #sf #poetry

07.08.2025 04:00 — 👍 7    🔁 2    💬 1    📌 0
White cat in Gaza sitting in front of a duffle bag.  An old car is in the background.

White cat in Gaza sitting in front of a duffle bag. An old car is in the background.

baladimagazine.com/is-it-a-life/

"Is it A Life?" poem by Tala Albanna

09.08.2025 21:37 — 👍 2    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0
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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

09.08.2025 21:12 — 👍 5    🔁 3    💬 0    📌 1
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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

03.07.2025 18:43 — 👍 8    🔁 4    💬 2    📌 0
Photo of Dr. Determann holding his book, Islam, Science Fiction, and Extraterrestrial Life

Photo of Dr. Determann holding his book, Islam, Science Fiction, and Extraterrestrial Life

Explore: Islam, Science Fiction and Extraterrestrial Life – a Study by Dr. Jörg Matthias Determann

baladimagazine.com/explore-isla...

18.11.2024 22:04 — 👍 2    🔁 1    💬 3    📌 0
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A Conversation with Lena Mubsutina, Author of Amreekiya

www.youtube.com/live/3lBjSoO...

18.11.2024 22:03 — 👍 2    🔁 1    💬 0    📌 0
Image of a man standing at a window with tears in his eyes.  the text says "They want us to keep hoping, that one day we'll be freed from our isolated glass cells. But its a lie...I know we'll never get out.."

Image of a man standing at a window with tears in his eyes. the text says "They want us to keep hoping, that one day we'll be freed from our isolated glass cells. But its a lie...I know we'll never get out.."

Isolation by Zoha Kazemi

“Isolation” illustration is by Mahour Pourghadim.

baladimagazine.com/isolated/

18.11.2024 22:00 — 👍 2    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0
Painting of man sitting on a couch holding a teapot with an alligator in his lap.  Portraits of two men hang on the wall behind him.

Painting of man sitting on a couch holding a teapot with an alligator in his lap. Portraits of two men hang on the wall behind him.

A String of Thoughts of Life, Death, and In Between by Ahmad Salah Al-Mahdi

baladimagazine.com/a-string-of-...

18.11.2024 21:57 — 👍 0    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0
Photo of a winding, gnarled olive branch with green leaves.

Photo of a winding, gnarled olive branch with green leaves.

The Witches of Ascalon by Sionia Sulaiman @soniasulaiman.bsky.social

baladimagazine.com/the-witches-...

18.11.2024 21:55 — 👍 3    🔁 1    💬 0    📌 1
Image of a dish of food flying through the air next to flying saucers.

Image of a dish of food flying through the air next to flying saucers.

WORLDS TO CONSUME – A Dialogue on the Value and Place of Food in Building #Sci-Fi Worlds By Emad El-Din Aysha, PhD

baladimagazine.com/worlds-to-co...

18.11.2024 21:53 — 👍 1    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0
Lisa Suhair Majaj standing next to an olive tree.

Lisa Suhair Majaj standing next to an olive tree.

Conversation – A Poem by Lisa Suhair Majaj #Palestine
baladimagazine.com/conversation...

18.11.2024 21:51 — 👍 0    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0
An image of an imaginary bird that looks like an eagle and has long flaming feathers in its tail.  Behind it is a Palestinian flag.  There is text that says "As a Palestinian, mu thoughts are often hijacked by others, who perceive so much from so little. But my skin is mine, My thoughts are mine.

An image of an imaginary bird that looks like an eagle and has long flaming feathers in its tail. Behind it is a Palestinian flag. There is text that says "As a Palestinian, mu thoughts are often hijacked by others, who perceive so much from so little. But my skin is mine, My thoughts are mine.

I Need You to Speak Up About Palestine Right Now by Marguerite Dabaie @mrrg.bsky.social

baladimagazine.com/i-need-you-t...

18.11.2024 21:50 — 👍 23    🔁 18    💬 0    📌 1

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