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THE FINAL SCENE
By Jehad Abu Dayya & Esraa El-BannaIllustrated by Esraa El-Banna
Jehad Abu Dayya and Esraa el-Banna were both part of the Yara’at Writing Club in Gaza when the war broke out. Amid genocide and displacment, for months they wrote letters to one another. Fourteen letters are compiled in a new zine, along with illustrations by Esraa. Available for purchase in a risograph printed zine, or as a PDF, all proceeds will support Jehad and Esraa.
Risograph print
5.25 x 8.5”
20 pages
“In the intimacy of the epistolary form, Jehad Abu Dayya and Esraa el-Banna model what writing as and in survival might truly look like. To read these words, alongside the starkly stunning illustrations by Esraa, is to be confronted with the range of emotional, spiritual, and intellectual truths held and holding Gazans each day as the world continues to produce their annihilation.”
— Fargo Nissim Tbakhi, author of TERROR COUNTER
“Even amid the intimacies of survival and the desire to continue writing, these letters ask: “What awaits us after all this?” These letters do not offer resolve. They ask instead what writing can hold when life has been broken in the midst of the zionist death machine, and whether remembrance is ever enough.”
— Noor Hindi, author of Dear God. Dear Bones. Dear Yellow.
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