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All proceeds will directly contribute to building a new home in Palestine for a family displaced by the Israeli Occupation. To uphold the sensitivity of their situation, we cannot disclose any personal information about the family or where we plan to build. Our primary focus is protecting their identities and ensuring their well-being.

My name is Ibrahem Hasan. I am a Palestinian visual artist and the creator of Yesterday, Come Closer. We made this work for and with Palestine and it's people. 100% of the profits will be given directly to multiple grassroots efforts on the ground in unequivocal support of the cause. May we see a Free Palestine.

Yesterday, come closer (YCC) is a non-linear, visual, aural, and textual experiment in purging and healing through contradiction. It apprehends palestinian collective memory through my embodied journey to unpack the tensions in notions of home and belonging. Unfolding over 728 pages in conjunction with ycc s, a sound system in collaboration with radio alhara, the work grapples with the generational residue of erasure, violence, and oppression that continues to envelop palestine yet is also a deeply personal reckoning with spiritual and physical displacement. It includes my own photography, design, words and art alongside contributions from photographers, artists, and writers whom i love and respect. All powered by voices of resistance.

Creator: Ibrahem Hasan 
Producer of YCC & Curator of YCCS: AHMAD ZAGHMOURI 
Lead Narrative Editor & Research: SARRA ALAYYAN 
Assistant Narrative Editor: HUSSEIN AMRI 
Calligraphy: TARIN KARIMBUX
Research: Moun Aicha Soussan 
Film Research: JUDE KHALILI 
Web development: Adam Gee

I MISS YOU MORE than i remember you

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i resign from the human race

All we know is violence 

sing sing sing sing sing 

When spiders unite they can tie up a lion

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my solitude 

the premise of many horror films are haunted houses built over mass graves. 

R.I.P                 RESEARCH IN PROGRESS

Your Strongest Armies Are Beneath Our Feet

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Death and Birth 

As if it were a season

in the year 2050

Science Fiction

Perpetual Light is Perpetual Prophecy

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where have you gone

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here and elsewhere

TO 	UNRAVEL A TORMENT 

motherland

In conversation with the heavens 

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SURRENDER

if i walk away what will remain?

In order to nurture you must disassemble 

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off the frame

humble joy of the wanderer

Coro Al Aqsa

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2:35am

MY MOTHER SPEAKS A SILENCED PEOPLE’S LANGUAGE.  SHE WILL ALWAYS HAVE A SHARP TONGUE. 

come my child baptize your ancestor

Here I am, Torrential In Full Flood 

1967

your silence will speak for you 

sumud 

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return from exile 

Book of Spells 

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american bread

My Blood Was The Ardent Milk in The Desert 

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see the light

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My peace did not come peacefully.

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eyes that will drink my words

Manar Zoabi 

among the skies abandoned

They say we make good news 

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MashAllah

intermission

I AM AN OLIVE GROVE THAT 		REMEMBERS 

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Hear the Clash of Languages In My Mouth

what do you see in the dark?

if you didn't do this. then the chaos would. then i would be part of the chaos.

SouthSide Chicago

NUMB  HARDENED  FIGHTING  RESILIENT 

Demand my ID 

SONs OF 	THE GAZA GHETTO STRIP

silence our bodies. bring them to the light.

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LOVE IS WHY

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these are not just words

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their laughter is unbroken

the mind that seeks the truth. a forgotten voice.

SCARED TO LET PEOPLE IN. 	THE DAMAGE 	THEY CAN DO. 	THE DAMAGE 	THEY CAN SEE.

SILENCE WILL NOT PROTECT YOU 

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I Will Not Abandon My Dead To Mere Memorials

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memories of the oceans

danger of death

zam zam 

rebel tears. gun shots in pillows. 

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peace if for only a minute

COLONIZATION IS THE White man's drink

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BIRTHED FROM DIRT

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ruins

ABOLISH THE OCCUPATION  IN 	YOUR 	HEAD IN 	YOUR 	HEART

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we looked into each others eyes

GOD COUNTRY 

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Revolution Until Victory

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IF SHIT GOES OVER YOUR HEAD THAN JUMP MUTHA FUCKA 

The Mouth of the Gun is the Opening of Paradise 

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they dont hide their wrinkles

We Came in Full Light and No One Saw Us

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chant to each other through an empty room

in clear sight

FUCK YOUR SO CALLED NATION AND THE CIVILIZED.  WE A PEOPLE BUILT FROM TRIBES.   	NO BORDERS.     NO LINES DRAWN.

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white Supremacy

A little girl born during another war

tell a story without saying anything

BLOOD OF THE WILD

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camouflaged prisons 

these memento's are for you to keep 

Qamar. conversations with the dead. 

NATIONS BUILT ON FAIRY TALES

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1988

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Speak about what?

Yesterday, Come Closer

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 IN EVERY fibre of me 

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