Published by Darat al Funun - The Khalid Shoman Foundation, 2025.
Language: En/Ar
Pages: 76
Edited by Khaled Al-Bashir
Translated by Ahmad Ameen
Designed by Rasha Tabbalat
ISBN: 978-9957-578-07-7
Participating artists: Basil Al Maqousi, Majed Shala, Raed Issa, Sohail Salem.
Under Fire is a catalogue that documents the drawings made by Gazan artists Basil Al Maqousi, Majed Shala, Raed Issa, and Sohail Salem, salvaged from the fire of war. Under daily bombardments and forced displacement, artists in Gaza did not stop drawing. Deprived of water, electricity, fuel, and food, they draw with dry ball pens on school notebooks, medical packages, old paper, using natural dyes, tea, pomegranates, and karkade (hibiscus). They bear witness to the genocidal war they are living, with no end in sight. The catalogue