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Jenin imPrints is comprised of a series of linoleum relief prints depicting the horrors incurred in the West Bank city of Jenin in the spring of 2002. This project is a reclamation of images, originally taken by the media to expose the destruction of Jenin; images that have lain in wait since they originally shocked the public. This public has largely forgotten about them and the lives that they represent. Over time, photographs become capsules that carry with them the aura of the time in which they were created. They are representations of a history that cannot be repeated. In making these images into works of art, they become more indelible, a larger statement of a reality that sees no beginning or end, much as the Palestinians see their occupation.

 

 

Biographies

 

Etel Adnan

 

Etel Adnan (b. Beirut, Lebanon) was a renowned visual artist and poet born in Lebanon in 1925. She studied philosophy at the Sorbonne in Paris, as well as at the University of California, Berkeley, and Harvard University.

 

Adnan authored more than a dozen books of poetry, fiction, and essays, including Shifting the Silence (Nightboat Books, 2020); Time (Nightboat Books, 2019), translated by fellow writer and artist Sarah Riggs, was a winner of the Griffin Poetry Prize; Surge (Nightboat Books, 2018); and Night (Nightboat Books, 2016). Her poetry collection Sea and Fog (Nightboat, 2012) won the Lambda Literary Award for Lesbian Poetry and the California Book Award. She is also the recipient of a PEN Oakland-Josephine Miles Award and in 2014 was named a member of the Ordre de Chevalier des Arts et des Lettres, one of France’s highest cultural honors.

 

Also a renowned painter, Adnan has had work featured in exhibits at the Guggenheim Museum, the Museum of Modern Art, and the Whitney Museum among many others. In 2018, MASS MoCA featured a retrospective of her visual work noting, “For Adnan, painting and poetry are two languages of many that she has mastered over a lifetime. Like a translator, she moves between them in pursuit of pure meaning.”

 

Adnan lived for many years in Sausalito, California, and taught at the Dominican University of California in San Rafael. She lived in Paris until her death in 2021. 

 

 

Marcelo Guimarães Lima

 

Marcelo Guimarães Lima, PhD, MFA (b. Rio de Janeiro, Brazil) is a visual artist, researcher and writer. His artworks have been exhibited in Brazil, the USA, Australia, France, Portugal, Romania, the UAE. He taught History of Art and Studio Art in the USA (University of Illinois, School of the Art Institute of Chicago, Goddard College) and the UAE (American University in Dubai) and, as guest lecturer / visiting scholar in Spain (Universidad de Salamanca, Universidad Internacional de Andalucia). He directed community-based art projects in Brazil and the USA. He is the author of Recordações do Futuro (Hipergrafia, São Paulo, 2025) and of Heterochronia and Vanishing Viewpoints (Metasenta, Melbourne, 2012), as well as of essays, papers and articles on the History of Art, Philosophy, Art Criticism, Psychology of Art and related subjects.

He is presently Independent Studies and Dissertation Director at the Institute for Doctoral Studies in The Visual Arts – IDSVA. He directs in São Paulo, Brazil, the Núcleo de Artes (arts division) of the Centro de Estudos e Pesquisas Armando de Oliveira Souza – CEPAOS.

 

Raymond Prucher

Raymond Prucher, MFA (b. Rock Island, Illinois, USA) is an artist, designer and writer. He taught art and design at SUNY Stony Brook, SUNY Suffolk Community College, Dowling College, Al-Quds University, and the American University in Dubai.

As an artist, Prucher's work has included painting, installation, sculpture, print, drawing and digital media. He has exhibited in France, Palestine, South Africa, the UAE and the USA. The original edition of Jenin imPrints was published in 2006 (Givors, France: Color Gang Edition, 2006). His work appeared in Arabesque: Graphic Design from the Arab World and Persia (Berlin, Germany: Die Gestalten Verlag, 2008).

His poems and critical essays have been published in This Week in Palestine and Design Altruism Project. He is the founding editor of whimperbang, a literary journal published online since 2003. Prucher also served with Designers Without Borders (DWB) as a design mentor to students at Makerere University, Kampala, Uganda in 2007–2008, and has been on the DWB board since 2008.

 

Details

Publication Date: Jan 24, 2026, by Whimperbang Press, Nyack, New York 10960.

Language: English

ISBN: 978-1-105-76084-6

Category: Art & Photography

Copyright © 2026: All rights reserved. This book or any portion thereof may not be reproduced or used in any manner whatsoever without the express written permission of the publisher except for the use of brief quotations in a book review. 

All works by Raymond Prucher are © by Raymond Prucher.
All works by Marcelo Guimarães Lima are © by Marcelo Guimarães Lima.
All works by Etel Adnan are © by The Etel Adnan Estate.

 

Contributors: Artwork and poem by (artist and author): Raymond Prucher, poem by (author): Etel Adnan, and Foreword and poem by (artist and author): Marcelo Guimarães Lima. Book design by: Raymond Prucher

 

Specifications

Pages: 64

Binding Type: Hardcover Case Wrap

Interior: Full Color

Dimensions: Square (8.5 x 8.5 in / 216 x 216 mm)