Jadu’i Book is a 2025 risograph publication, featuring commissioned works from seven Palestinian artists — Basma al-Sharif, Lamia Abukhadra, Saj Issa, rana nazzal hamadeh, Qais Assali, Lama Altakruri, and Amanny Asell Ahmad. This book was organized and edited by Rami George over the course of three years, beginning in April 2022. Printed and published in 2025 by us, Many Folds Press, amidst an ongoing Nakba and genocide of Palestinian people.
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Risograph printed in Red, Black, Light Lime, and White inks.
166 pages, perfect-bound.
8 x 10.5 inches.
Edition of 150.
My contribution to the book reflects on the protests following the June 2021 killing of political dissident Nizar Banat by the Palestinian Authority security forces.
In June 2021, Palestinian Authority (PA) security forces killed political dissident Nizar Banat shortly after detaining him from his home. As they often do, widespread protests erupted against the PA regime and its policy of security coordination with Israel. Protesters in Ramallah were met with teargas, clubs, stones, and metal rods by uniformed and plain clothes members of the PA security apparatus. They attempted to scare, shame, and deter the protesters, who were predominantly women, including through sexual harassment, stealing phones, and publicly sharing personal images.
The circulated photographs included women taking selfies, swimming, drinking, and in one instance, eating watermelon at a picnic. In Arabic, the word watermelon is often used to describe something that is nonsensical or a sham, and the protesters were belittled as ‘watermelon girls’, among other names. On each page of this work, one of these other descriptors is introduced in Arabic, before blending in and shifting out of recognition. In English, the letters of the word watermelon simply repeat.
Despite the intimidation and violence, we continued to take to the streets, packing a face cover, alcohol wipes to smell amid teargas, a burner phone instead of a smartphone, and loose change instead of a wallet and ID.
Test print of my pages in Jadu’i Book