BY TAQI X THAER

"GAZA GAZA, WE WILL RISE"

Front: Ft Taqi Spateen Mural of Palestinian Kids Knocking on a large door and climbing up rope to small the obstruction.

Back: Al Hub Collective Art

The third generation in ghurba is returning to their roots through collective critical thinking and creativity. What

began as a series of actions in response to calls from Gaza, transformed into collective sense and realization. The

land, From the River to the Sea, is calling upon us to return. In order for us to return, we must return to another to return

home together. As the second-generation in exile witnesses their children’s blossoming from the seeds they treadfully

watered, they too will remember and reconnect with their past, experiencing return within, to another, and then

together. It is our duty as youth in exile to act as catalysts, returning within by reclaiming our heritage, identifying the

land our clans and practices were exiled from, returning to another by reviving these practices and reconnecting with

kin, and doing so urgently, for the Nakba generations leaves have begun to dimmer.