Call for Papers: Seeing with Touch: Images After Gaza. Re-visiones Journal, Vol. 16, No. 2 (Autumn 2026)
Call for Papers
Seeing with Touch: Images After Gaza
Re-visiones Journal, Vol. 16, No. 2 (Autumn 2026)
Guest Editor: Kinda Youssef
Since 2011, I have maintained an ambivalent relationship with images. I left my country, Syria, when violence began to intensify, and I have not returned since. The place was reduced to a screen —a tactile territory where looking became a form of mourning. For years, I repeated the same gesture: sliding my finger over images until the body —and the gaze— grew weary. With the genocide in Gaza, that ritual returned. I go online, I look, I escape, I look again. I recall Aurora Fernández Polanco’s reading of The Incredulity of Saint Thomas by Caravaggio: that act of “seeing with touch” that guides the gaze toward the wound. Perhaps looking today means precisely that: holding one’s finger on the burning surface of the image —not to believe, but to remain with the pain that persists, and from it, to learn how to know, to think, and to research what images still demand from us.
