bilna’es بالناقص

Throughout the genocide in Gaza, and more specifically between 29 October 2023 and 29 February 2024, artist Amal Al-Nakhala recorded and indexed everyday life across Gaza’s shifting landscapes through a series of diary entries. Comprising illustrations, sketches, and texts, the diary is itself a displaced document: one that accompanied Al-Nakhala through successive journeys of forced displacement and, more recently, into exile in Cairo, Egypt. This publication reproduces these fragmentary and uneven entries—with their gaps, delays, and repetitions—formally registering the ongoing temporality of genocide and the violence it produces. It also includes additional entries made in Gaza and Cairo after the original diary was completed, as the genocide continues to destroy lives and environments across Palestine.

Softcover books with 184 interior pages

printed 4/4 CMYK

on Magno Natural 140g

Cover printed 4/4 CMYK on Magno Natural 300g

Thread sewn binding, trimmed flush

Individually shrink wrapped

Amal Al-Nakhala (1999, Gaza) is an artist working across text, image, illustration, and painting. She graduated with a degree in English Literature in 2021, but has been a practicing artist since her childhood. She sees art as a way to express subdued emotions, drawing inspiration from her immediate environment, indexing social, political, and emotive landscapes. Most recently, Al-Nakhala has completed four comic series, exploring themes of identity, belonging, and social bonds, that deploy humour and empathy. Al-Nakhala has showcased her work in various exhibitions and has recently ventured into making animation videos.