77 tear-out posters in solidarity with Palestine.
Love is Resistance is a powerful collection of 77 commissioned posters from artists, musicians, writers, designers, poets, filmmakers, students, actors, digital creators and voices from across the world standing in solidarity with Palestine. Each poster can be pulled out, framed and hung, taken to peaceful protests or kept together as an archive.
This book is a tribute to Palestinian resilience and a tool for global solidarity. It is a gathering of visual declarations, poems, collages, graphics, stories, moments and memories from the past 2 years of live-streamed genocide and 77 years of ongoing occupation.
Editor Aya Mousawi writes, “This book is born from the ache of witnessing. To witness is to refuse disappearance: an attempt, in a small way, to archive this time and capture the spirit of our efforts to stand with Palestine. To honour their resistance and survival, and to trace the threads of solidarity that connect us across the world.”
Published by Saqi Books, all proceeds will be donated to the Ajyal Foundation, supporting its crucial work providing long-term rehabilitation and psycho-social support for children, as well as urgent on-ground support to displaced communities in Gaza.
POSTERS BY Abbas ZAhEdi · Adam Broomberg · Adam Rouhana · Alaa Mansour · Alana Hadid · Alessandra Sanguietti · ANZ by Ainy · Areej Kaoud · Aseel AlYaqoub · Athier Mousawi · Aude Abu Nasr & Reef Al-Amine · Aya Haidar · Basma al-Sharif · Brian Eno · Cecile B. Evans · Cem A. · Collecteurs · Dana Barqawi · Dima Al Khatib & TamTam · Dima Srouji · Dora Dalila Cheffi · Eddie Peake Elias & Yousef Anastas · Emily Jacir · Gaza Cola designed by Raafaye Ali · Guy Haddon Grant · Hala Alyan · Hamed Sinno & Maya Moumne · Hassan Hajjaj · Hazem Harb · Hey Porter! · Ibrahem Hasan · Jasleen Kaur · Jeremy Deller · Jesse Darling · Jonas Staal · Jordan Nassar · Khalid Abdalla · Kyle Goen . Larissa Sansour · Lawrence Abu Hamdan · Lina Hadid . Malak Mattar · Mandy El-Sayegh · Mandy Merzaban · Marwan Kaabour · Massive Attack · Maysaloun Faraj · Mazen Kerbaj · Michael Rakowitz · Misan Harriman · Mona Ayyash · Muhannad Hariri · Myriam François · Nahla Tabbaa · Peter Kennard · POSTPOSTPOST · Protest Stencil · Rami Farook · Rana Begum · Rayyane Tabet · Reem Farah · Rolla Selbak · Rosalind Nashishibi · Saeed Abu-Jaber · Samia Halaby · Sara M. Saleh & Mothanna Hussein · Sara Naim · Sarah Boris · Shumon Basar · Sophia Al Maria · Sumayya Vally · Tai Shani · Tamara Kalo · UAL Students for Justice in Palestine · Wear The Peace · Yazan Khalili
FOREWoRD BY
AHMED SHIHAB-ELDIN
ESSAY BY
SHUMON BASAR
EDItorial design by
hey porter!
EDITED BY
AYA MOUSAWI
“What I have learned, again and again, is that Palestinians have always carried both the burden of survival and the gift of hope. Hope not as a hollow slogan, but as resistance itself: the audacity to dream, to sing, to write, to love, even in the shadow of death. This audacity stares back at us from the pages of this book.”
Ahmed Shihab-Eldin
“To love, here, is to refuse erasure. To resist is to remember. And to remember is to make sure the world cannot pretend it didn’t see.”
Shumon Basar
Specifications
Title: Love is Resistance
ISBN: 978-1-84925-122-8
Language: English & Arabic
Format: Softcover; shrinkwrapped; 350gsm cover; 240gsm Munken Pure interior; glue-bound; Swiss binding
Binding/Pagination: Western i.e. left to right; each poster double-sided: image en face, accompanying text on reverse (verso)
Care Note: Pages are designed to be removed as posters; spine may loosen with use
Dimensions: 38 (H) x 27 (W) x 2.5 (D) cm
Weight: 1.85 kg
Pages: 180
Featuring: 77x commissioned artist posters; 1x centre-bound double-sided fold-out poster; 1x sheet of stickers; 1x sheet of ‘GAZA Love’ signed stamps by Kyle Goen produced by The Portland Stamp Company
Publisher: Saqi Books
Printer: Grafiche Leone
Curator, Editor & Introduction: Aya Mousawi
Foreword: Ahmed Shihab-Eldin
Contributor: Shumon Basar
Designer: Hey Porter!
Translator: Heba Abulehia
Price: GBP £70
“We are extremely proud to be part of this extraordinary initiative. This powerful book is a stunning and bold testament to art's role in expanding the spaces for solidarity and resistance around Palestine that many are trying to silence. For the children in Gaza that we support, ‘Love is Resistance’ is about hope! It’s an urgent, assertive light in very dark times.”
- Awatef Sheikh, Co-Founder of the Ajyal Foundation
