This collection brings together poetry, critical  writing, image-making, drawing, and  song in a multidisciplinary series  that examines the politics of  refusal in Palestine. Composed of  four contributions assembled through paired collaboration, the  contributors explore and develop  novel ways of producing knowledge. 

The Light Through the Shards. Alia Al-Sabi and Amany Khalifa take apart Palestinian ‘return’ through a conversation that unfolds across literary, temporal, and spacial registers.

Against the Structural Weight of Catastrophe: A Poetics of Negation. Amr Amer and Laura al-Tibi weave together song and critical analysis, unsettling colonial conceptions of Palestinians’ relation to their land economically and existentially.

An Echo in Search of its Shadow, Aesthetics of the Repressed. Adam HajYahia and Haitham Haddad formulate an aesthetic theory of revolt, examined through text, images, and illustration.

Being the Negative. Basel Abbas and Ruanne Abou-Rahme offer a comprehensive hypothesis of the “negative,” unfolding across poetry, images, and illustration.

By focusing on the interplay between text and artistic form, “To all those we are indebted to” proposes new methods of thinking and creating, aesthetically and politically.