Navigating Chaos

Desert sky © Kathryn Jordan

Degrees of Change

"You want to change the world? Then get them to sing your own song. But—first—you must find out what your song is. To do that, you must find out who you are, and be proud of that.” Harry Belafonte

Meditation

À la gauche de Ti-Paradis, Croix-des-Bouquets et Yaffa

Nada El-Omari

I tell you a little deaf girl said she can’t hear the bombs but what she imagines in her mind is usually reality. You tell us about a song you don’t sing anymore

Art

Small Creatures

Susan Dubrofsky

These creatures are made of remnants that I have around me – wire, paper, pieces of wood, cloth, feathers, paint and whatever else I find.

Poetry

City Called Heaven

Kathryn Jordan

An iguana moves to catch my eye. Time seems to stop. These lost creatures stare, tell how they were pulled from their burrows . . .

Reflections

Kahani Sunao

Sumair Sattar

Our conversation went downhill quickly, as it often did when Amma remembered it was her grandmotherly duty to set me on the “right path.”

Theatre Commentary

How “Vierge” hits home with a daughter of the African diaspora

Ceta Gabriel

Friendship, religion, family, and betrayal—this play is an excellent representation of Black girls from the African diaspora growing up and acclimating to Canadian culture.

Essay

REBORN, IN INK AND FIRE – 3 poems by Auschwitz prisoner 135633

Joseph Kary

If forgiveness is the price of peace, it is one that many people in the aftermath of war will find impossible to pay.

Poetry

To soldiers who committed suicide & Word sonnets

Cyril Dabydeen

One lifetime only a world without wars, and peace to sustain, you see – no other territory to conquer – the tree growing taller...

Book Review

Buried truths and fragile connections: A review of Twist

Maya Khankhoje

Optic fibres are as thin as the hair of a human baby but if twisted into thick bundles, they can be very resilient. Resilient, yes, but not unbreakable.

Mutating Capitalism

Port au Prince tent city after the 2010 earthquake - UN Photo/Logan Abassi United Nations Development Programme, CC BY 2.0

Poetry

Scorched Birth

Vishesh Abeyratne

Soon the veins and arteries of cities are clogged with caravans of the outraged.

Poetry

to be forgiven & tanka

Ilona Martonfi

... you ask the boreal forests named after Boreas, the Greek god of the north wind ...

Poetry

The Weight of Dust

Dipti Gupta

... see which lives we lift and those we lay down in the silence ...

Book Review

Travelling Out of Bounds

Anna Fuerstenberg

Some were lied to about the truth of their ancestry, while others are drawn to cultures and lives very different from their own.

Essay

Nationhood Has No Borders

Rana Bose

There is a fable that Mahatma Gandhi was asked by a reporter what he thought about Western civilization, and his reply was, “It would be a good idea!”

Essay

Our Food is in Jeopardy

Subhadra Khaperde & Rahul Banerjee

Ecosystem restoration and sustainable agriculture are two sides of the same coin and must go hand in hand.

Reconstructing Meaning

Even the birds in Gaza have wings but do not migrate - Photo Hla.bashbash, CC BY 4.0 creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0

Meditation

between Uele and Hebron

Nada El-Omari

In Arabic, “wholeness” translates in a word that lifts when you say it rather than falling in your chest like in English.

Poetry

In Shadows, The Sound of Sixty Chainsaws & The Climb

Allie Duff

I have to get up close and personal with the feijoa tree...

Photo Essay

Beyond Context

Joseph Kary

Cultural exchange often works in two directions.

Short Story

“The land belongs to the indigenous Palestinians — Muslims, Christians, Jews and others — whose forebears are the Canaanites. Did this Promised country fulfill its promises to you as it did to those of European origins?”

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Navigating Chaos

Degrees of Change

À la gauche de Ti-Paradis, Croix-des-Bouquets et Yaffa

Small Creatures

City Called Heaven

Kahani Sunao

How “Vierge” hits home with a daughter of the African diaspora

REBORN, IN INK AND FIRE – 3 poems by Auschwitz prisoner 135633

To soldiers who committed suicide & Word sonnets

Buried truths and fragile connections: A review of Twist

Mutating Capitalism

Scorched Birth

to be forgiven & tanka

The Weight of Dust

Travelling Out of Bounds

Nationhood Has No Borders

Our Food is in Jeopardy

Reconstructing Meaning

between Uele and Hebron

In Shadows, The Sound of Sixty Chainsaws & The Climb

Beyond Context

Sarah’s Return

A review of Kingdom of Olives and Ash

Degrees of Belonging

Anamnesis

Tronic Transmission: A mix of both features and the path behind Atif “Tranie Tronic” Siddiqi

Of characters and reflections

All the Angels are Here – Healing through myth and community in the face of crisis

A Glimpse into the Displaced Garden

L’art comme vecteur de changement social: Entretien Stanley Février

Running from the Family

Rapping Resistance