Foraging Fireflies issue 1

“Foraging Fireflies is a publication rooted in archiving, memory, and refusal amid ongoing violence and erasure in Palestine. Through personal stories, recipes, and reflections on foraging, farming and land-based knowledge, it insists on the presence of Palestinian lives, histories, and enduring connections to the land.

Gathering voices across generations, the publication documents practices of care, sustenance, and resistance—countering dispossession, greenwashing and colonial narratives. In a moment of attempted annihilation, preserving memory and knowledge becomes an act of defiance, continuity, and hope.

The publication naturally gives priority to Arabic in the design, allowing it to fully spread on the page, while English appears on narrower pages at the end of each contribution, unfolding like a booklet. The magazine is organized into four color-coded sections, each comprising multiple contributions that open with a full-page illustration by Aude Aboul-Nasr, portraying the land and its keepers.”

A book documenting the embattled yet enduring connection between the Palestinian people and their homeland through texts and photographs printed in various monochromes as well as many colour illustrations, comes with a folded poster (37,5 x 26,5 cm unfolded) with a botanic colour print as well as 2 postcards featuring botanic colour prints and recipes on the back side.

Creative direction by Super-Melon and Besma Ben Said, graphic design by Chiara Vincenti Zakhia, text in Arabic and English.

Soft cover, 27 x 19,5 cm, 138 pages + 88 not numbered half pages, ed/200, n.p. 2026