Art of Defiance: Protest Graphics and Poetry for Palestine

Art of Defiance: Protest Graphics and Poetry for Palestine (English-Arabic Edition) is both an artistic intervention and a historical record of resistance. This groundbreaking 270-page volume — featuring over 50 full-color images — unites protest graphics and poetry to document and amplify the Palestinian struggle for self-determination.
Art of Defiance brings together both acclaimed and emerging writers who confront occupation, colonialism, displacement, state violence, and liberation while forging transnational solidarity. Contributors include Refaat Alareer, susan abulhawa, Saul Williams, Huda Skaik, Nour Aldeen Hajjaj, Khaled Mattawa, Hiba Abu Nada, meital yaniv, Yousef Dawas, Basman Aldirawi, Ibrahim Yaghi, Omar Faris Abu Shaweesh, Ahmad Alsouq, Saleem Al-Naffar, DEF Sound, Alexandra Isfahani-Hammond, poets from the We Are Not Numbers (WANN) project, and others. Several of these poets — Alareer, Abu Nada, Dawas, Abu Shaweesh, Aldeen Hajjaj, and Al-Naffar — were martyred after October 7, 2023. Their final words serve as enduring records in a long and ongoing history of dissent.
Alongside their poetry is the work of LOUDER THAN WORDS — an intergenerational, cross-cultural team wielding posters as weapons against Israeli settler colonialism, U.S. imperialism, and the systemic erasure of Palestinians by Western corporate media. Their visually arresting graphics, created in the wake of Israel's genocidal campaign, advocate for an end to state violence and occupation, the obstruction of humanitarian aid, arms embargoes, the right of return, and the global campaign for boycott, divestment, and sanctions (BDS).
Art of Defiance testifies to the enduring power of artistic ingenuity in the face of oppression and stands as a powerful reminder that resistance is, above all, an act of imagination.

S.A. Bachman is a socially engaged artist, activist, and educator whose work unites visual culture and direct action to challenge capitalism, colonialism, and carceral logic. She is the cofounder of two artist collaboratives, THINK AGAIN and LOUDER THAN WORDS, both of which recruit creative practice as a catalyst for public address and political resistance.

Working at the intersection of art and social justice, Bachman examines how white supremacy, economic inequality, misogyny, and mass media conspire to endanger those most impacted by systemic injustice. Her recent work focuses on violence against women, the plight of immigrants, the exploitation of non-human animals, prison abolition, and Palestinian liberation.

Bachman's work has been exhibited at the Museu d'Art Contemporani de Barcelona, the Philadelphia Museum of Art, the Institute of Contemporary Art (Boston and Philadelphia), and the Rose Art Museum, with works in the collections of Los Angeles County Museum of Art, the Palacio de Bellas Artes in Mexico City, and the Center for the Study of Political Graphics. A recipient of fellowships and awards from the National Endowment for the Arts, the Massachusetts Cultural Council, and the New England Foundation for the Arts, Bachman's art has been reviewed in Artforum, Ms., and Social Text. Her photographs and interventionist projects have been published in numerous books, including Reframings: New American Feminist Photographies and Graphic Agitation 2, while THINK AGAIN's early work is documented in A Brief History of Outrage.