Nada Anwar Rajab is an artist, teacher, and scholar in Gaza. Her work has persisted through the ongoing genocide being led by US-Israeli forces. Her work as an educator and artist has appeared frequently at North Meridian Press. Today we are announcing a regular column of her work. To lead this series off we present her work— “Roots That Never Die.”
As Nada explains, “This is a piece I created while carrying incredibly heavy emotions, shaped by the effects of the genocide and repeated displacement at the time, on January 2, 2025. It was a moment when I tried to pour some of the pain and everything I was feeling onto paper. Perhaps that is why I was unable to share this work until now. Today, I am sharing it for the first time, simply to say: Life may change, and so many things around us may be uprooted, but the roots within the women of Gaza never truly die!”
