The following images are illustrated by Safdar Ahmed, and appear in The Nightmare Sequence, now out from Nightboat Books—a collaboration between Ahmed and the poet Omar Sakr, bearing witness to the genocide in Gaza.
“‘Genocide Culture’ is a series of images that attempts to highlight what our leaders cannot be brought to admit: that a ‘close friend’ of Australia, a mutual ally of the United States and a key strategic partner in global security and military technology is committing the most abhorrent crime humanity is capable of. It will take a serious moral reckoning and reconciliation with Australia’s own (frequently suppressed) colonial history before this country has the wherewithal to recognise and denounce the genocide committed by a fellow settler colony.” —Safdar Ahmed
“Lingerie”
“Sarafand al-Amr”
“Prisoners”
“A child’s bicycle”
“Sderot Cinema”