Samaḥ Shiḥadi (b. 1987) focuses on the daily personal and social challenges that women face – both at home and beyond. Her empathy and steadfastness are beautifully and sensitively articulated in much of her work. Themes of nostalgia and displacement unite the women, despite their distinct practices set against the context of continuing geopolitical unrest in Palestine, Shihadi expresses a desire shared by many in the Palestinian diaspora to return to one’s roots.