Say Free Palestine – Sara M. Saleh x Mothanna Hussein

Say Free Palestine – Sara M. Saleh x Mothanna Husseinfor 'Twitter I'm not calling that shit X' say free Palestine is a line by Sara M. Saleh, from her poem Say Free Palestine, described as a meditation after Sean Bonney, an English poet dedicated to left wing radical movements and known for his poem titled ACAB: A Nursery Rhyme, with the first line: for I love you say fuck the police. To pay homage, Sara uses that line in her poem as a bid to the Palestinian liberation movement. She opens her poem with

for 'Twitter - I'm not calling that shit X' say free Palestine is a line by Sara M. Saleh, from her poem Say Free Palestine, described as a meditation after Sean Bonney, an English poet dedicated to left-wing radical movements and known for his poem titled ACAB: A Nursery Rhyme, with the first line: ‘for ‘I love you’ say fuck the police.’

To pay homage, Sara uses that line in her poem as a bid to the Palestinian liberation movement. She opens her poem with the words: ‘for ‘I love you’, say Free Palestine.’ For the limited edition, this was translated into Arabic and placed within an artwork by Mothanna Hussein, a Jordan-based artist and co-founder of the Free Palestine Project.

Sara M. Saleh is an award-winning writer, human rights lawyer, and racial justice organiser. She is the daughter of migrants from Palestine, Egypt, and Lebanon living on Bidjigal land (Sydney, Australia) committed to elevating youth and building communities of resistance grounded in the interconnectedness of Indigenous struggles for self-determination. Her words have been published widely in English and Arabic.

While Saleh’s literary achievements transcend medium, genre and geography, she is most celebrated for co-editing the critically acclaimed anthology, Arab, Australian, Other (Picador, 2019) and for historic wins of both the Peter Porter Poetry Prize (2021) and the Overland Judith Wright Poetry Prize (2020). Her books The Flirtation Of Girls (UQP, 2023) and Songs For The Dead And The Living (Affirm Press, 2023) have received multiple shortlists and prizes.

Mothanna Hussein is an artist and designer active in the creative community of Amman, Jordan. With Saaed Abu-Jaber, Hussein is co-founder of the widely respected Radio alHara, a Palestinian digital radio station and Turbo, a design studio with international clients. Turbo was the guest editorial designer of WePresent Magazine Issue 5. 

Hussein's project Allah1.net explores the word Allah in various graphic forms and was the inspiration for the Free Palestine Project, a curated archive of free posters submitted by designers from around the globe in solidarity with Palestine. The Free Palestine Project was initiated with Hadi Alaeddin as the design duo known as Warsheh.

This artwork is part of a series of limited-edition artworks on Indigenous creative resistance, curated by Ché Zara Blomfield for Progressive International. Proceeds from the sale of this artwork go towards Progressive International.

for 'Twitter - I'm not calling that shit X' say free Palestine is a numbered limited edition of 200
Printed on 189 g/m matte paper 12” x 18” (30 x 46 cm), the frame is not included.

Paper thickness: 10.3 mil (0.26 mm)
Paper weight: 189 g/m²
Opacity: 94%
ISO brightness: 104%
Paper is sourced from Japan

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