I hear your silence

Title: I hear your silence

Photographer(s): Daniela Sala

Writer(s): Hasan Kilani

Designer(s): Walter Costa, Guglielmo Gioni

Publisher(s): FADA Collective,Roma, Italy

Year: 2025

Print run: 350

Language(s): Italian, English

Pages: 40

Size: 14 x 19,5 cm

Binding: Softcover

Edition:

Print:Ciao Tiratura, Ravenna, Italy

Nation(s) and year(s) of Protest: Lebanon, Jordan,Tunisia, 2018-2024

ISBN:

The goal of I Hear Your Silence has always been to create bridges — between the Mediterranean’s shores, between activism and art, between different struggles for freedom and equality.

"We want to give space and visibility to activists, create dialogues that cross borders, and build communities of listening and solidarity."

This project aims at building an intimate and collective portrait of the people whose complex experience is too often denied by a Westernised narrative that sees them as victims whose only hope is abroad. In fact, despite the repression, queer activists are reclaiming public spaces and triggering a larger change in their own communities.

A lot of time seems to have passed since 2017, when a group of activists - as part of a campaign to counter toxic masculinity and homophobia - draw a graffiti portraying two man hugging which reads “I hear your silence”: their voice is now louder than never. And the rest of us, are we ready to listen? By Daniela Sala introduction.