The Writings of Shahd Alnaami - Shahd Alnaami (Coast Line Press)

Written by Shahd Alnaami, Illustrated by Aude Abou Nasr

“This half-letter size zine collects Shahd’s writing, both nonfiction and poetry, about her experiences of the most recent years of the ongoing genocide of Palestinians. Her writing immortalizes some of what has been lost, with precision and grace.”—inner pages, The Writings of Shahd Al-Naami.

“Shahd Alnaami’s writings put word after word to the totality of loss, the dignity of grief—words wholly lived, forged in the conviction of endurance. Composed a year and three months after Al-Aqsa Flood, a year and three months into the Zionist entity’s escalated genocide in Gaza, these pieces serve as an archive of daily missing, loving, remembering, writing, always resisting. They are confessional, documentary, gritty with hope. Here, Alnaami finds strength in her own story, as she insists: ‘Words have the power to bring life to what others try to erase.’”—Jody Chan, author of sick (Black Lawrence Press)

Coastal Lines Press is a collective of writers in Gaza. Through Zines from Gaza, they publish independent booklets of poetry, essays, and testimonies that travel like vessels from coast to coast, turning words into vital aid for their families.