Tarweedeh

"Tarweedeh:" An encrypted style of Palestinain folk song used to help families communicate across occupier prisons. This type of folk song was first developed during British colonization of Palestine and continued after the Nakba in 1948.

Tarweedeh zine is produced and published by aka TAWLA: collective of photobook makers from the SWANA region, supporting photobook making and advocating for alternative narratives. This first edition features the work of 9 Palestinian photographers in/from Palestine and was published in 2023. The collection is being exhibited as a part of TPW's exhibition, Never One Thing Alone, co-curated by Liz Ikiriko and Jaclyn Quaresma.

All zine proceeds go directly back to Tarweedeh's contributing artists:

Maen Hammad, Randa Shaath, Samar abu Elouf, Nidal Rohmi, Tanya Habjouqa, Samar Hazboun, Ameen Abo Kaseem, Lina Khalid, and Nadia Bseiso.

Suggested amount to pay is $15.

Never One Thing Alone considers intricate networks of solidarity and connection, movements of resistance, and collective action alongside the work of aka TAWLA, Dana Qaddah, Joyce Joumaa, and Sharlene Bamboat. Never One Thing Alone charts the artists' intersecting networks, which serve to strengthen one another, sometimes across borders. Finding solidarity even in the most difficult circumstances, these artists—from Cairo, Beirut, Khartoum, Vancouver, Montreal, and Toronto—are forging their own shadow paths through and against systems of colonial and capitalist extraction.

The exhibition runs from April 9th to May 31st, 2025, at Gallery TPW as part of Images Festival.

2023; 68 pages; 150mm x 220mm; Edition #1