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Fikra Magazine

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Fikra Magazine

An Independent Palestinian Literary Magazine l مجلةٌ أدبيةٌ فلسطينيةٌ مستقلة
باللغةِ العربية والإنجلي

04/12/2024

On December 7th, we will release our second print edition during a launch event .

This second issue of Fikra Magazine is published during one of the darkest times in Palestine. And so, we dedicate this issue of Fikra to our brothers and sisters in Gaza, who pay an unimaginable price for our collective struggle.

Join the event and buy your copy 🇵🇸

05/08/2024

📣 The deadline for our Call for Submissions has been extended!

For those who did not yet get the chance to submit their work to Fikra, you can do so until August 12, 2024 by sending your work to [email protected].

For our Print Edition 2024, we are looking for:

➡️ Arabic & English pieces
➡️ Pieces that have not been published before

Please read the following guidelines before submitting your work:

🧑‍💻 Essays & creative non-fiction: well researched or with an original point of view (3000 words max).

📝 Poetry: up to six poems in a single document.

🖊 Short stories & other fiction: between 500 and 2500 words max.

📷🎨 Visual art & photography: collections should not exceed more than fifteen individual impressions per submission. Please submit either JPG, JPEG, PNG, or PSD files.

⏰Deadline for submissions August 12, 2024

ℹ For more info go to www.fikra-magazine.com on our “about us” page or click on the link in our bio.

30/07/2024

✍️ For our next print edition, we are looking for:

➡️ Arabic & English pieces
➡️ Pieces that have not been published before

Please read the following guidelines before submitting your work:

🧑‍💻 Essays & creative non-fiction: well researched or with an original point of view (3000 words max).

📝 Poetry: up to six poems in a single document.

🖊️ Short stories & other fiction: between 500 and 2500 words max.

📷🎨 Visual art & photography: collections should not exceed more than fifteen individual impressions per submission. Please submit either JPG, JPEG, PNG, or PSD files.

Deadline is coming up soon, submit your work before August 5!

13/07/2024

📣 Call for Submissions for our Print Edition 2024!

➡️ Are you a Palestinian writer/artist?
➡️ Do you want to be published in Fikra?
➡️ Submit your essay, poetry, short story, or visual art now to [email protected]
➡️ We accept submissions in Arabic and English

⏰Deadline for submissions August 5, 2024

ℹ For more info go to www.fikra-magazine.com on our “about us” page or click on the link in our bio.

18/06/2024

In time of ongoing genocide against our people, we will keep publishing Palestinian voices. Shaheen’s poetry shows us the cost and raw reality of our struggle for liberation.

Read Shaheen's poetry on our website www.fikra-magazine.com ➡️ Link in bio.

Beautiful cover photography by Yasmine Omari

21/03/2024

It requires incredible strength to remain steadfast while witnessing the genocide of our people. In his poetry, Sima’an wanders the narrow line between hope and disillusionment.

Khalil Simaan grew up in Haifa to a family of internally displaced refugees from villages in the Galilee, obliterated in 1948. His early poetry appeared in Al-Jadeed Magazine and Al-Itihaad daily, and more recently in the Palestine Chronicle.

🧑‍💻 Read more on our website www.fikra-magazine.com

✍️ Cover Art by Maysanne Murad. Her piece “18.800 souls”, made of pen and ink dots, commemorates the first 18.800 Palestinians who perished in Gaza in the ongoing genocide.

27/01/2024

Mariam Masud forces us to consider our own political awakening. Her bold narrative reveals the bravery needed for a colonized people to claim their freedom.

Masud is an English teacher and writer based in Al-Mughayer, Palestine. Read her full essay on www.fikra-magazine.com. Link in our bio.

Cover art by

20/01/2024

This beautiful homage by to her late father, Farouk, is incredibly gripping. A requiem for a poet that reverberates the imperative of writing for a Free Palestine.

Read the full piece on www.fikra-magazine.com. Link in our bio.

25/11/2023

📣 OUR PERFORMERS TOMORROW

khalti batrawi
bazi

On Sunday November 26 opens her doors for an afternoon of literature and music for a community overflowing with grief and flooded with hope. We will read poetry that holds the collective subconscious of Palestine. We will sing songs that remind us of the uncompromising courage of the Palestinian people. We invite you to be a part of the collective, to donate with your heart, and to be immersed in the beauty of Falasteen.

This program is made in collaboration with .

Come as you are, come in peace.

Entrance is free but please register via the link in bio or www.denieuweliefde.com/agenda/yuma/

15/11/2023

Read about the unwavering connection between cousins; one currently located in Gaza, the other in London.

With her eloquent and vulnerable prose, Batrawi tries to make sense of what's been happening in Gaza and with Palestinians around the world over the past weeks. Writing in times of war is incredibly difficult and painful, but Palestinian authors like .batrawi remain steadfast.

Read the full story on www.fikra-magazine.com. Find the link in our bio.

06/11/2023

“God make our rage count for something.”

Turkmani takes us from Lebanon to Palestine and echoes the connection between their peoples in grief, anger, sorrow and longing.

is a writer and researcher in Beirut. Her research focuses on displacement, agriculture, and social movements.

Photography by

02/11/2023

For six-year-old Wadea Al Fayoume, who was murdered in cold blood on October 14th. "Mamma, I'm fine" is a painful reminder of the blind hatred Palestinians have to endure.

Maya M. Murry is a Palestinian-American poet who immigrated to the US from Al Khobar, Saudi Arabia. She studies Computer Science at Cornell University in Ithaca, New York, where she researches the intersection of trauma and public policy.

Cover art by

Adres

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Amsterdam

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