We are proud to announce the winners of the 2021 Ghassan Kanafani Resistance Arts Scholarship

Alf Mabrook to our scholarship winners, listed below!

Their submissions, along with other Palestinian writers and artists ages 18-25, will be published in the upcoming Ghassan Kanafani Anthology, which you can order online soon!

First Place: Nusaybah Shahid

Nusaybah Shahid is a Palestinian artist based in Philadelphia. You can follow her work on her website https://nusaybahshahid.com/

SECOND PLACE: Sireen amra

Sireen Amra is a Palestinian college student studying Political Science and English. She is a local mutual aid organizer who works to end all forms of structural violence.

THIRD PLACE: Nahed elrayes

Nahed Elrayes is a 25 year-old composer, pianist and writer whose family is from Gaza, Palestine.

His recent works include the Mahmoud Darwish-based composition A Lover from Palestine, performed and filmed in collaboration with dozens of Palestinians across the globe, a Meanjin Quarterly reflection on Gaza and the War on Terror, and a Masters thesis on Bourdieusian identity conflict in Lebanon, which earned the University of Melbourne's 2020 W.M. Ball Prize for best graduate essay in International Relations.