Both origin and edge, beginning and end, ‘land’ can be seen as an abstraction on one hand, and as the most material of elements on the other. Its investigation requires a search for our origins since land holds within it not only the ruins and memories of past cultures but also the building materials of a future to come. As such, land allows more than a glimpse into the past, an observation into the present or a prediction of the future, but rather allows the examination of an absolute edge, at the limit beyond which, and beyond land’s opaqueness, one cannot observe.

Whether through spatial, legislative, political, visual or ethical lenses, ‘LAND’ asks to examine, expose and discuss the various ways in which the land itself, supposedly universal, simple and legible, disrupts the boundaries imposed on it by human cultures, and finds unique expressions in the manners by which we grasp, formulate, represent, conceive and produce our surroundings.

We are looking for scholarly and creative texts, visual projects, and other proposals that aim to engage the multiplicity of meanings that the land encompasses, and offer unique interpretations in regards to the conflicted and controversial local context of the land of the people who express themselves as Israeli or Palestinian, and its surroundings.

Guidelines for Submissions:

A. Written proposals will be evaluated based on a 500 word abstract. The abstract will contain information about the proposed submission’s content, the approx. length of the text, a bibliography on which the article will be based upon and a list of images, if included, with their appropriate credit.

B. Visual proposals - drawings, comics, photographs and more - will be evaluated based on a portfolio sent as a .PDF file or, if you have an online portfolio, you can send us a link to the site. Sketches for new projects may be sent as well.

C. All proposals will be submitted as .PDF files. The name of the file will contain the name of the article/project and the name of the writer/artist.

D. Once the abstract is accepted, authors will be asked to provide the article within a month.

E. Acceptable languages for the abstracts are: Hebrew and English, final articles can be published in Arabic.

For further information please visit https://www.massajournal.com/call-for-papers or contact us at [email protected]