Sukoon is an arab-themed online literary magazine publishing literature and art by anglophone arab writers or non-arab writers/artists with an arab story. Ali Shawwa's iconic art collection was featured throughout Sukoon Magazine vol. 3 issue. 1
This issue, like every issue, is about finding the beauty and showing it. Finding the love and singing it. Which is why I decided a beautiful art piece, by Palestinian artist Ali Shawwa, of Umm Kulthum, the world’s most famous Egyptian singer, works best as a cover page. To indicate and remind us of song, because how else do we survive, through wars and shelves and forgetfulness?
To sing about love and loss, but to sing about love. To sing about pain and life, but to sing about life. To simply sing. And sing and sing, as poetry and story and art.
REWA ZEINATI
Editor
