Under the Banner "Bound Together": Panel Discussion and Workshop in Vienna to Introduce the "Zines from Gaza" Project
2026-05-24
VIENNA — On Saturday and Sunday, May 23 and 24, 2026, the premises of the Palestinian Community in the Austrian capital, Vienna, hosted a unique cultural and solidarity event titled "Bound Together." This event was jointly organized by the collective publishing house "Coastal Lines Press," the "Palestine Solidarity Austria" (PSÖ) coalition, and the "Palestinian Community in Austria" (PGÖ), as part of an ongoing tour of the humanitarian cultural project to introduce independent literary production inspired by the heart of suffering and steadfastness in the Gaza Strip.
The event aimed to highlight "independent mini-magazines" (Zines) — which are small booklets made and bound by hand — as a tool for documenting human experiences and transmitting literary creativity across borders as a means of cultural resistance and human communication across distances.
Day One Activities (Saturday, May 23): Project Presentation and Live Conversation with Female Writers from Gaza
The event launched on Saturday evening with a comprehensive introductory presentation of "Coastal Lines Press," a youth collective comprising a selection of writers and creative young people inside the Gaza Strip. The concept is based on publishing independent small booklets and magazines (Zines) containing poems, prose texts, and live testimonies, traveling like ships from coast to coast, carrying Gaza's true voices to the world, and building bridges of direct human solidarity. The proceeds from these words and sales are converted into vital, direct humanitarian aid for the families of the writers in the Strip.
The highlight of the evening was a live video conversation over the internet with several female writers and authors who are members of the collective inside the Gaza Strip. The audience in Vienna listened to their testimonies and experiences of writing and documenting under bombardment and siege, as well as their discussion on the role of the free word in confronting attempts at erasure and displacement.
Day Two Activities (Sunday, May 24): Interactive Workshop for Manual Zine Binding
The following day, an extended hands-on and interactive workshop was held, offering the audience and participants of various nationalities the opportunity to learn the techniques of making and binding these mini-magazines (Zines) manually and collectively, with no prior experience required.
The workshop saw great engagement, as participants exchanged thoughts and ideas and crafted booklets carrying solidarity messages with their own hands. This embodied the humanitarian concept that these booklets — despite their small size — carry significant moral and political weight. They gather fragments of thoughts, sparks of resistance, and moments of care between people. Passed from hand to hand, they become a means of communicating across vast distances, declaring the failure of the international system's attempts to reduce human tragedy into dry, official "PDF" files.
It is worth noting that the "Zines from Gaza" project enjoys wide following and interaction across social media platforms and its official website www.coastallinespress.com , where it continues its humanitarian mission to showcase the depth of the will and collective imagination of the Palestinian people.
The event aimed to highlight "independent mini-magazines" (Zines) — which are small booklets made and bound by hand — as a tool for documenting human experiences and transmitting literary creativity across borders as a means of cultural resistance and human communication across distances.
Day One Activities (Saturday, May 23): Project Presentation and Live Conversation with Female Writers from Gaza
The event launched on Saturday evening with a comprehensive introductory presentation of "Coastal Lines Press," a youth collective comprising a selection of writers and creative young people inside the Gaza Strip. The concept is based on publishing independent small booklets and magazines (Zines) containing poems, prose texts, and live testimonies, traveling like ships from coast to coast, carrying Gaza's true voices to the world, and building bridges of direct human solidarity. The proceeds from these words and sales are converted into vital, direct humanitarian aid for the families of the writers in the Strip.
The highlight of the evening was a live video conversation over the internet with several female writers and authors who are members of the collective inside the Gaza Strip. The audience in Vienna listened to their testimonies and experiences of writing and documenting under bombardment and siege, as well as their discussion on the role of the free word in confronting attempts at erasure and displacement.
Day Two Activities (Sunday, May 24): Interactive Workshop for Manual Zine Binding
The following day, an extended hands-on and interactive workshop was held, offering the audience and participants of various nationalities the opportunity to learn the techniques of making and binding these mini-magazines (Zines) manually and collectively, with no prior experience required.
The workshop saw great engagement, as participants exchanged thoughts and ideas and crafted booklets carrying solidarity messages with their own hands. This embodied the humanitarian concept that these booklets — despite their small size — carry significant moral and political weight. They gather fragments of thoughts, sparks of resistance, and moments of care between people. Passed from hand to hand, they become a means of communicating across vast distances, declaring the failure of the international system's attempts to reduce human tragedy into dry, official "PDF" files.
It is worth noting that the "Zines from Gaza" project enjoys wide following and interaction across social media platforms and its official website www.coastallinespress.com , where it continues its humanitarian mission to showcase the depth of the will and collective imagination of the Palestinian people.