Announcing NMR’s 2026 Artist in Residence

Nada Anwar Rajab

NMR is a shared space among academics, artists, and activists to highlight and discuss their work. The artist in residence is chosen each year to share their work with the journal’s readership. Their work will be featured both in the print journal and on the website.

The North Meridian Review’s 2026 Artist in Residence is Nada Anwar Rajab.

Rajab is a Gaza-based artist and writer whose work bears witness to war, displacement, and survival. Her pieces published in North Meridian Review—including “From the Rubble,” “How Did I Receive the News of the Ceasefire,” and “We Are Still Here”—bring together visual art and prose to document life under siege with clarity and urgency. Her work insists on presence against erasure, tracing both devastation and endurance while foregrounding memory and education as an act of resistance.

“From the Rubble,” Nada Anwar Rajab, Gaza, Palestine, 2026.