The Public Source - مصدر عام

02/07/2025

Between bombs and blackouts, Iranian visual artist Golrokh Nafisi found radical clarity: our grandmothers’ language — simple, unyielding, rooted in land and memory — is the key to collective resistance.

In a letter to Palestinian writer Mohammed el-Kurd, Nafisi writes about burying her 99-year-old grandmother in Tehran, a woman whose anti-colonial defiance mirrored the resilience of el-Kurd’s grandmother, Rifqa, in Sheikh Jarrah.

"They drive our roots deeper into the earth, into depths no bomb will ever reach."

Illustrations by Golrokh Nafisi.

Read the letter on our website:

Artist Golrokh Nafisi writes to Mohammed el-Kurd about their grandmothers’ shared anti-colonial defiance.

09/06/2025

من السجون الإسرائيلية إلى عيادات الخصوبة، تشكّل عملية تهريب نطف السجناء الفلسطينيين داخل أقلام بلاستيكية أو غلاف حلوى، استراتيجية وجودية تؤكد على الحياة في مواجهة آلة القتل وسياسات التطهير الديموغرافي وإدارة الموت. تُخصّب البويضة فتصير طفلًا يتحدّى الكاميرات والحراس، ويصبح كل مولود جديد انتصارًا على المحاولات الصهيونية لتجويف المستقبل الفلسطيني.
🔗 لقراءة المقال:
https://thepublicsource.org/ar/s***m-smuggling-palestinian-prisoners

03/06/2025

"هم يصنعون الموت، وأنا صنيعة الحياة "— كيف حوّل الأسرى الفلسطينيون أجسادهم إلى ساحة مقاومة؟
تهريب النطف من السجون ليس مجرد بطولة، بل رسالة: الحياة ستنتصر
بقلم ليال فتونيتحرير باسيمة سعدترجمة ساسين كوزلي و فاطمة فؤاد السمانالرسوم من قبل ايمي تشينيارا

🔗 اقرأوا التفاصيل: https://thepublicsource.org/ar/s***m-smuggling-palestinian-prisoners

02/06/2025

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30/05/2025

في ليلة أمس، ٢٩ أيار ٢٠٢٥، اعتقلت قوات الاحتلال الإسرائيلي الناشطة الفلسطينية سناء سلامة أثناء تواجدها مع ابنتها ميلاد البالغة من العمر خمس سنوات في القدس. جاء الاعتقال بعد ساعات فقط من دعوة وزير الأمن القومي الإسرائيلي إيتمار بن غفير لترحيلها.

سلامة هي أرملة الأسير السياسي الشهيد وليد دقة الذي لا تزال قوات الاحتلال تحتجز جثمانه منذ أكثر من عام على استشهاده، رافضةً تسليمه لعائلته.

يُمثل اعتقال سلامة واستمرار احتجاز جثمان دقة حتى بعد استشهاده جزءًا من حملة إسرائيلية تاريخية تشهد تصعيدًا متواصلًا، تهدف إلى التطهير العرقي للفلسطينيين من أراضي فلسطين المحتلة عام ٤٨، وقمع الأصوات الفلسطينية المعارضة عبر الاعتقالات التعسفية والترحيل وسحب الأوضاع القانونية.

30/05/2025

Last night, May 29, 2025, the Israeli occupation detained Palestinian activist Sanaa Salameh while she was out with her 5-year-old daughter, Milad, in Jerusalem. Her detention came hours after Israeli National Security Minister Itamar Ben-Gvir called for her deportation.

Salameh is the widow of martyred political prisoner Walid Daqqa, whose body has been withheld from his family by Israeli occupation forces for over a year since his martyrdom.

Salameh’s detention and Daqqa’s captivity even after death are part of a historical but escalating Israeli campaign to ethnically cleanse Palestinians from 48 occupied Palestine, and to repress dissenting Palestinian voices, through arbitrary detentions, deportations, and revocation of legal status.

29/05/2025

Palestinian educators like Khalil Totah once defied colonial censorship to protect national identity. During the First Intifada, classrooms moved into homes when schools were shut down. In Gaza today, every school is damaged or destroyed.

This isn’t collateral damage. It's scholasticide: the deliberate destruction of an education system.

🔗 Link to the full story: https://thepublicsource.org/scholasticide-israel-bombs-gaza-schools

[Photo Credit: The Palestinian Museum Digital Archive]

26/05/2025

How did Palestinian prisoners turn their bodies into battlefields of resistance?

The answer lies in a profound act of defiance: smuggling s***m out of Israeli prisons to conceive children, part of a collective strategy to resist disappearance; to reclaim life under occupation.

Written by Layal Ftouni.
Edited by Basyma Saad.
Illustrations by Amy Chiniara.

🔗 Read the full story here: https://thepublicsource.org/s***m-smuggling-palestinian-prisoners

15/05/2025

Gaza’s schools are not just destroyed — they are being erased. From banned books to bombed classrooms, this is part of a long history of colonial efforts to dismantle Palestinian education.

In Gaza today, that destruction is nearly total.

This is scholasticide: the deliberate and systematic destruction of Palestinian education.

Author Jo Kelcey traces the devastation and explores why Palestinians continue to pursue learning.

Read the full article on The Public Source: https://thepublicsource.org/scholasticide-israel-bombs-gaza-schools

07/05/2025

April 13, 2025 marked 50 years since the onset of Lebanon's civil war. In her poignant personal essay, writer Lina Mounzer delves into the profound impact of the war on personal and collective memory. Born mere months after the civil war erupted, she reflects on how the echoes of war have permeated her life, shaping her understanding of identity, loss, and resilience.

Mounzer’s narrative underscores the enduring trauma faced by generations who grew up amid violence and instability, but also brings to light an uncommon residue of the war: a deep nostalgia for a childhood spent inside bomb shelters — a longing for a time that felt simpler.

🔗 Read the full essay: https://thepublicsource.org/civil-war-lebanon-anniversary

06/05/2025

[مشاهد من الحرب بعدسة فاطمة جمعة]
في اللقطة الأخيرة من هذه السلسلة، توثق المصورة تشييع السيدَين نصر الله وصفي الدين كأنما كل التشييعات التي سبق أن صورتها ما كانت إلا تدريب على هذه اللحظة. يتشارك المحزونون فقدهم الجماعي العصي على التصديق، يتشبثون بلحظات شك عابرة ويجدون العزاء في بقائه حياً داخل قلوبهم.

بعدسة وقلم فاطمة صلاح جمعة.

https://thepublicsource.org/ar/blog/lebanon-war-diaries/final-scene-nasrallah-funeral

25/04/2025

What does it mean to have grown up during Lebanon’s civil war?

For writer Lina Mounzer, Lebanon’s 15-year civil war left a lasting imprint — a deep nostalgia for a childhood spent in bomb shelters, and a yearning for a time that felt simpler, even as her city, Beirut, and its people, were fractured by violence.

As Lebanon marks 50 years since the war began on April 13, Mounzer traces how its legacy still shapes her present — from the trauma of her early years to the country’s ongoing struggles with corruption, sectarianism, and war.

Read more of Mounzer’s moving and heartfelt testimony of her days in the malja’ in the link below.

https://thepublicsource.org/civil-war-lebanon-anniversary