The Nightmare Sequence
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The Nightmare Sequence

  1. 193 pages
  2. English
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The Nightmare Sequence

About this book

The Nightmare Sequence is a searing response to the atrocities in Gaza and beyond since October 2023. Heartbreaking and humane, it is a necessary portrait of the violence committed by Israel and its Western allies. Through poetry and visual art, Omar Sakr and Safdar Ahmed capture these historic injustices, while also critiquing the role of art and media ā€“ including their own ā€“ in this time. Born of collective suffering and despair, their collaboration interrogates the position of witness: the terrible and helpless distance of vision, the impact of being exposed to violence of this scale on a daily basis, and what it means to live in a society that is actively participating in the catastrophic destruction of Arabs and Muslims overseas. With a foreword by Palestinian American poet George Abraham, The Nightmare Sequence is an insightful work of testimony that also considers how art is complicit in Empire. This transcendent book invokes the power of poetry and art to shift hearts and minds; it will serve as a vital record in decades to come.

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Publisher
University of Queensland Press
Year
2025
eBook ISBN
9780702270376

Table of contents

  1. Cover
  2. Praise for The Nightmare Sequence
  3. Author and illustrator biographies
  4. Title page
  5. Imprint page
  6. Epigraph
  7. Contents
  8. Introduction by George Abraham
  9. Writing poems in the genocide
  10. Sometime in the genocide
  11. How to identify beloveds in the genocide
  12. My wife in the genocide
  13. Graze in the genocide
  14. Good in the genocide
  15. Genocide in the genocide
  16. Holocaust in the genocide
  17. Legitimacy in the genocide
  18. Arguing with my sister in the genocide
  19. Sometime in the genocide (reprise)
  20. Pause in the genocide
  21. Arab in the genocide
  22. Masjids in the genocide
  23. Rain in the genocide
  24. Utility in the genocide
  25. Tunnels in the genocide
  26. Air in the genocide
  27. Bluey in the genocide
  28. Reflection in the genocide
  29. Kisses in the genocide
  30. Looking away in the genocide
  31. Comprehension in the genocide
  32. Clicks in the genocide
  33. alt txt in the genocide
  34. Working in the genocide
  35. Say in the genocide
  36. Grief in the genocide
  37. Demonstrations in the genocide
  38. 100 days in the genocide
  39. Dates in the genocide
  40. October 7th in the genocide
  41. Unloved in the genocide
  42. Hope in the genocide
  43. Witness in the genocide
  44. Algo in the genocide
  45. Elegy in the genocide
  46. Valentine in the genocide
  47. Names in the genocide
  48. Limits in the genocide
  49. Passer-by in the genocide
  50. Refusal in the genocide
  51. Timely in the genocide
  52. History in the genocide
  53. Park in the genocide
  54. Ramadan in the genocide (I)
  55. Ramadan in the genocide (II)
  56. Product placement in the genocide
  57. Recycling in the genocide
  58. Easter in the genocide
  59. 200 days in the genocide
  60. Angles that didnā€™t work in the genocide
  61. Motherā€™s Day in the genocide
  62. The Nightmare Sequence
  63. Protest in the genocide
  64. Fatherā€™s Day in the genocide
  65. Small talk in the genocide
  66. Words in the genocide
  67. Social cohesion in the genocide
  68. Trees in the genocide
  69. Pets in the genocide
  70. 300 days in the genocide
  71. Fatherā€™s Day in the genocide (reprise)
  72. Democracy in the genocide
  73. Devastation in the genocide
  74. Poetry in the genocide
  75. We lived unhappily in the genocide
  76. Sumud in the genocide
  77. Privilege in the genocide
  78. Notes on the art
  79. Authorā€™s note
  80. Acknowledgements