Current Issue — Summer 2026

Bombs

What does explosive violence leave behind? In our first issue, writers, survivors, farmers, and photographers from Lebanon, Laos, Sudan, and Iraq give shape to what most accounts leave formless.

Vol. 01 No. 01 52 pages
In this issue
  • 04
    The Sound Before the Sound
    Essay — Fatima Khalil
  • 14
    What the Body Keeps
    Reportage — Dr. Amara Diallo
  • 24
    Night Geometry
    Poetry — Yasir Osman
  • 32
    The Ordnance Clearers of Laos
    Reportage — Khamla Bounnavong
  • 42
    The Cartography of Loss
    Photo Essay — Nour Ibrahim
  • 50
    The Naming of Things
    Fiction — Rasha El-Amin
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Testimony
A House Has More than Four Walls
On what is lost when buildings fall — and what, unexpectedly, survives the blast radius.
Mariam Tahir · Mosul, Iraq
Reportage
Fifty Years of Clearance
The Plain of Jars in Laos is still being made safe for children. An account from the ground.
Khamla Bounnavong · Xieng Khouang
Fiction
The Naming of Things
A woman catalogues the objects of her destroyed neighbourhood before the bulldozers arrive.
Rasha El-Amin · Cairo, Egypt
About the journal

One theme.
Many voices.
Every quarter.

Each issue of this journal is built around a single word — a theme that functions as an open invitation. Writers, farmers, survivors, artists and journalists interpret it freely.

The common thread is perspective: non-Western, grounded, firsthand. We publish the person who lived it alongside the person who studied it.

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"A theme like Land can yield a legal essay on indigenous title, a poem about soil, a photo essay on dispossession, and a piece of flash fiction — all in the same issue." From the editorial manifesto

Coming issues
Autumn 2026
Land
Ownership, dispossession, soil, and the politics of where you are allowed to stand.
Winter 2026
Crops
Food sovereignty, farming under occupation, seeds, and hunger as a tool of war.
Spring 2027
Water
Rivers as borders, drought, flooding, access, and the right to drink.
Summer 2027
Borders
Checkpoints, crossings, the line on a map, statelessness, and the cost of a passport.

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