Maktaba Bookshop celebrated its one-year anniversary in June. Located in the Old Port, the shop harbored a DJ set with spellbinding remixed Arab music, refreshments available to all attendees, limited print editions, and a sense of diasporic shelter. Bookstore Owner Sundus Abdul-Hadi expressed gratitude for the community’s support, which she humbly credits as helping Maktaba thrive.
“The deeply rooted” features artworks that center ancient culture steeped in traditional and Indigenous knowledge that colonization attempted to erase.