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Wilde rozen

forest berries grow  by the cool rushing creek  scent of irises

Rites and Writings

Passing the gatekeepers four times with the rite answers we left you there in the garden

A hard look at “woke”

Susan Neiman is director of the Einstein Forum and a member of both the American Philosophical Society and the Berlin-Brandenburg Akademie der Wissenschaften

Poem for Mani

In an Urdu poem, Iftekhar Ahmed expresses love and acceptance for his trans child, bridging cultural heritage with the language of understanding.

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Anamnesis

Patrick Visentin's practice explores the interstice and interplay of fact and fiction through the fusion of analogue and digital mediums and methods of creation.

Personhood: as old as the hills

Struggles over recognition of personhood are rooted in the history of colonialism and private property. Indigenous worldviews of “Our Relations” –­ the land, and mountains and waters; the sky, sun, moon and stars; the trees, plants and rocks; the birds, […]

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A mixing of worlds

My name is Alix Van Der Donckt-Ferrand. I was born in 1995 and I live in Montréal. I make drawings, objects and music under the name La Cucurucha. Many of the images I draw have a synchretic component, a mixing […]

What I was missing here – six poems by Jila Mossaed

Note on the poems and images Poems originally published in Swedish in Vad jag saknades här (Stockholm: Bokförlaget Lejd, 2018). English by Nicola Vulpe. Images from the series philosophy of a tree by Gazelle Bastan (2022)

A Terrible Mistake

In Farzana Doctor’s first poetry collection, each part contains a different exercise followed by a haiku response.

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The Desert Speaks in Poetry and Prayer

Collections of Yahia Lababidi’s Verses and Aphorisms: Desert Songs and Learning to Pray Yahia Lababidi describes Desert Songs as “a slender love letter to the deserts of Egypt.” The poems in Arabic with English translations by Osama Esber and photographs […]

Blut und Boden—On This Nationhood Thing

When the Editorial Board framed the theme statement for this issue of Serai on Nationhood, we asked in the opening paragraph, “What does nationhood mean today for the First Nations and other Indigenous peoples, who strive to navigate forward in […]

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Territoires vivants, territoires vénérés

Yves Sioui Durand fonde en 1985 Ondinnok, une compagnie pionnière du théâtre amérindien francophone au Québec. Depuis 35 ans, il poursuit une démarche théâtrale se réappropriant la spiritualité amérindienne comme territoire imaginaire.