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Indigenous action, global impact: Learning from the Bhils’ ecosystem restoration in India

The wisdom of the Bhils has a great deal to offer human beings across the planet.

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Reconstructing Meanings

Around me, I see or imagine so many landscapes rapidly fading, burning under heatwaves throughout the years.

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A Letter to Durga and Rana: Reflections on Bonjour Tristesse

A voice that is both rooted and roaming. A voice shaped by lineage, but entirely its own. [...] this work comes not only from solitary genius, but from shared strength.

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Inside a clock

Although giving up had never crossed my mind / It did sound good...

Greg drawing during our brainstorming workshop at KYOT, Kanehsatake, 2025 (Photo - Sahara Romero)

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Talking Circle: What Keeps Us Going

The works that follow reflect our personal journeys through heritage, healing, migration, identity and resistance.

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Somewhere in Cairo and Bethlehem

For the first six years of my life, nobody called me by my name.

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A candle burning backwards / Cherāghi ru be ʿaqab

No one cared for what lay under that grey curse, for where a tiny bird dropped its egg...

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If Words Fail, Power Speaks: Silence in a Mutating World

When I was a child and my parents moved from Europe to Morocco, I had all the words.

Delightful food for thought: a review of Annapurna’s Bounty

Our palates constantly evolve, perhaps with a tinge of nostalgia for the familiar and traditional food we grew up with...

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Distance and Time Unknown

We think we know, but we are floating in a comatose space.

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"When you’re a minority or a perceived outsider, it’s very easy for you to see the other side of things. You have a much easier time disconnecting from the prevailing narrative. When you look at the shared collective grief that stems from oppression, you can identify with a lot of it." Lubna Nazarani

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Blame a Palestinian & This, for instance

... the only thing I know is that words come after words until they don’t.

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Staging Freedom: Decolonizing Theatre, Humanizing Palestinian Voices

To tell anti-colonial stories, participants, especially playwrights and directors, centred women’s voices in their art.

Poetry as kinship: STEADY. AGAINST THE ABSURD confronts a fractured world

In these poems—powerful, fragmented, and multilingual—historical traumas share emotional space with hope in our fundamental humanity.

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Letters to a lost brother

My heart was full of love for this “foundling” brother with his gentle spirit. I was elated.

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You’re all weapons of war now

I used to be afraid of the visions, especially in the woods at night.

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Under the skies of Haifa, Jbala and Cergy

I feel like I’m stuck inside a temple aflame, daydreaming of plucking a fig from a blaze. I want to ask you if you think we’re too young for this ghorba, but I don’t.

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