Stitching Light is a metaphorical conversation between In Jerusalem by Tamim Al-Barghouti and Invisible Cities by Italo Calvino.

Tamim Al-Barghouti, nicknamed the “poet of Jerusalem” is a Palestinian-Egyptian columnist, political scientist, and is one of the most widely read poets in the Arab World.

Al-Barghouti wrote the poems of In Jerusalem between 1996 and 2016.

Italo Calvino was one of Italy’s most translated authors and a journalist who published Invisable Cities in 1972. Calvino’s most notable works also include his Our Ancestors trilogy and his Cosmicomics collection.

Stitching light weaves in between the messages of Al-Barghouti’s love of Jerusalem, laced with loss and fear and anger and saddness, and Calvino’s poetic accounts of forgotten cities serving as symbols of a fantasized reality.

“everything in the city has a tongue which, when you ask, will reply.”