Issue 001 · Sold out

ZELZAL 001 — The Faultline

  • Theme: Diaspora
  • April 2025
  • 26 contributors
  • Launched at Bred, Abu Dhabi, 2025

Issue 001 — The Faultline (Digital) on Big Cartel

Status on the site: sold out. All editions are limited. No reprints.

Cover of ZELZAL 001 The Faultline

Manifesto · A Tremor in the Silence

We are not here to disrupt for the sake of disruption; we are here to redefine. To question who gets to tell the story, who gets to be seen, and who decides what is beautiful.

Too strange for some, too Western for others. But within this tension lies our strength.

It is for those who dream of a world where every crack in the facade is filled with gold.

This is our roar, and it has been a long time coming. Welcome to ZELZAL.

Stories in 001 (26)

  1. SOFT HEAT: woman with face jewels holding red roses — Soft Heat in ZELZAL 001

    Soft Heat

    Yassine Taha, @otililam (Creative direction + styling, cover)

    Marrakech

    Studio 1001Prods

  2. Family Ties

    Yassine Taha, Fahd El Amrousy, Mayra Hocine (Styling)

  3. Stepped Out

    Yassine Taha, Selina, Naby Kaci (Styling)

  4. Home Elsewhere

    Gibraltar the Brand, Moz (Photography), Naby Kaci (Styling), Yassine Taha (Production)

  5. SALT SKIN: woman in a white lace dress by the sea at sunset — Salt Skin in ZELZAL 001

    Salt Skin

    OmarSha3

    Dubai

    Model Lana AlBeik (@lana_.jpg)

  6. CASA STRETCH: men in suits and orange shirts under parasols — Casa Stretch in ZELZAL 001

    Casa Stretch

    Hamza Rochdi

    Casablanca

    Assistant Ihssane Abbadi

  7. Real Ones

    Rahim Rabia

    Morocco

  8. ONE BLOCK: dirt-bike wheelie past a camel and palms — One Block in ZELZAL 001

    One Block

    Amine Finini

  9. Threads of Home

    Drishti Jindal, Ron John

  10. TIDE BOYS: boy holding a crab on his head, sea behind — Tide Boys in ZELZAL 001

    Tide Boys

    Sicander

    Socotra, Yemen

  11. THE ONE WHO WAITS: hooded figure holding a white dove in the desert — The One Who Waits in ZELZAL 001

    The One Who Waits

    Youssef Oubahou

    Morocco

  12. RI7ET LBLED: bread, mint and a red teapot on a tray — Ri7et Lbled in ZELZAL 001

    Ri7et Lbled

    Yosra Farrouj

  13. CASE BLEUE: young woman in pink before a blue facade — Case Bleue in ZELZAL 001

    Case Bleue

    Zineb Koutten

    Rufisque, Dakar, Senegal

  14. Boujloud

    Abderrahmane Ajja

    Morocco

  15. BA7ER

    Baha Suleiman

    Jordan

  16. Wheeling Home

    Basel Hassan

    Marseille

  17. Fatherland

    Bashar Belal

    Kuwait

  18. Local Derby

    Aqib Anwar

    Algeria

  19. Dyalna

    Ilias El Faris

    Morocco

  20. Raised Here

    Omar Abulata

    Alexandria, Egypt

  21. Sun Over West

    Rosario Nandjui

    Ivory Coast

  22. THE CROSSING: man at a ferry rail above the wake — The Crossing in ZELZAL 001

    The Crossing

    Houssem Boulifa

    On the way to Algeria

  23. THE LIGHT LEFT BEHIND: four boys on a seafront railing — The Light Left Behind in ZELZAL 001

    The Light Left Behind

    Tanya Traboulsi

    Beirut, Lebanon

  24. Monsters We Know

    Bluuecrab (Art)

  25. Drive Me Back

    Jules Bakhos (Art)

  26. Posters from the Margins

    Mothanna Hussein (Graphic design)

Also in 001

NAWRES (3D), HunchoSwf / Sawssen Fajr, Deza, Ismail Zaidy

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