Storm bookstore

11/27/2025

Merci Paris! Two weeks ago already! Thank you Parisfor this warm warm welcome, thank you for coming out under the rain, new and old friends and family! What a beautiful way to present Storm’s collection and celebrate 5 years of with the exhibition of incredible photographers! Mabrouk !
Love love &
Couldn’t tag all the books, photographers, authors, publishers, many of you were here in paper with us ♥️
Storm is still on hiatus, qlthough so many things are brewing.. excited to share more soon
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11/13/2025

06/04/2025

See you today and tomorrow
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05/20/2025

This week •

WEDNESDAY MAY 21 • SCREENING
Civilized People by Randa Chahal Sabbagh

Join us for a final screening at Norman ave.

*A Civilized People* (1999, 95’) by Randa Chahal Sabbagh

During the civil war, many wealthy Lebanese people fled to Europe, leaving behind their luxury apartments. The housekeepers were left behind under the control of a sniper who took over a whole neighborhood. Their stories intertwine with that of the Muslim militant, the Christian maid, as well as the rich woman who returns to see her lover in this dark comedy.

This movie was screened only once in Lebanon, at the Beirut International Film Festival. Indeed, about half of the film was censored for its ‘obscenity’ and ‘uncomplimentary representation of Lebanon during this particularly unsavory spell of its history’.

Programmed by Nour Chahal Sabbagh and Nour El Helou.

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05/16/2025

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BETWEEN I AND LANDS – Oumayma Ben Tanfous

Between I and Lands is an intimate exploration of return, memory, and belonging.
“Twenty years after leaving Tunisia as a child, I returned to reconnect with a homeland that had lived in my dreams but evolved in my absence. Over two years, I retraced places imprinted in my family’s history: Tunis, where I was born; Djerba, the land of my ancestors; and Kerkennah, the site of my childhood summers. Documenting the tension between memory and reality, longing and loss.”
Through photographs of etched landscapes and portraits of strangers, this book is a visual ode to reconciliation, uncovering the traces of home’s fragility and the experiences found in returning to it.

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05/15/2025

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MOVING TOWARDS HOME Exhibition Catalog – Jenna Hamed
This document contains all the original research documentation featured in the exhibition, Moving towards Home (April 30-May 21, 2024), curated by Jenna Hamed & Amy Kahng, into a “book” by co-curator Jenna Hamed.
It includes info about the contemporary works curated into the show, in addition to pages and pages of the cited articles on the contemporary (and incomplete) history of Palestinian art and solidarity exhibitions in NYC since the 1980’s, the cultural boycott movement, a contextual 3-part essay by co-curator Amy Kahng, the review by Diana Seohyung, bootlegged archival material from the Museum archives (because it’s not theirs to begin with), listings of the foundational books, catalogues and publications we referenced, and much much more.

2024

Moving towards Home: Art for Palestine in New York City in 1989 & 2024, was an exhibition presented at SUBTITLED NYC from April 30 through May 21, 2024, co-curated by Jenna Hamed and Amy Kahng.

Limited Edition 100

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05/15/2025

Celebrations are essentiel.
This one is mainly for the people

05/13/2025

This week •

THURS. MAY 15 • 7-9PM
BOOK LAUNCH – Ossada by Gui Marcondes
Join us for the book launch of Ossada by Gui Marcondes preceded by a conversation with Zach Ritter. “In these visible and invisible manifestations of the anatomy of structures, the construction of “Ossada,” combining photographs, charcoal drawings, and mathematically generated images, presents the accelerated expansion of territories that build the foundations of their own abandonment.” AB. **Gui Marcondes is a visual artist from Brazil, living between New York and São Paulo.

FRI. MAY 16 • 7-9PM
KNOWLEDGE SHARE – Generations of Care, Grandmothers as Stewards and Curators with Ilk Yasha
This workshop will explore the unique role of grandmothers as curators of family histories, wisdom, and legacies. Together, we’ll reflect on the lessons and values grandmothers have passed down, and how they continue to shape our lives today. Ilk Yasha is an educator, arts administrator, and multidisciplinary facilitator at New York University and the Studio Museum in Harlem.

SUN. MAY 18 • 12-6PM
BYE – A whirlwind farewell !
Join us to gather, hug and be together on this Sunday. We will be here from 12 to 6pm maybe browsing our books, come buy the last copies! Grilling some veggies, sipping good wines and talking about future plans. See you there! This is our fawda farewell to this address!

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See you soon!

05/05/2025

This weekend •
SAT. MAY 10 • 10AM-12PM
KID PROGRAM – A Field of Wildflowers with Zane Elias
Zane is back at Storm with another exciting workshop about wildflowers from near and far—from Palestine to New York. Learn what makes a flower wild, native or non-native, then create our own field of blooms using real pressed flowers our friends brought back from around the world. Make flower crowns, plant flowers to take home, and enjoy tea and treats made with edible flowers. Recommended for ages 4-12.elias

SAT. MAY 10 • 2-4PM
PANEL – Mothers in the Arts with Asian American Arts Alliance
On the eve of Mother’s Day, A4 brings together artists of the Asian diaspora to share candidly about how motherhood has shaped their practices (and vice versa), the realities of balancing the two identities, and resources they have found or created to navigate and be joyful during the many stages of raising children. Panelists include Hala Alyan, Maia Ruth Lee, Natalia Nakazawa,and Shawna X,moderated by Justine Lee, programs director at A4.


SUN. MAY 11 • 10:30-11:30AM
STORY TIME – in Arabic with the parents

05/05/2025

This week •

MON. MAY 5 • 7PM
LAUNCH – POST/DOC Spring 2025 with the Vera List Center and Momus
*Post/doc*, is VLC’s biannual publishing series for discursive, speculative, experimental writing and artistic practices. This shared edition features a new sound work by musician JJJJJerome Ellis and a text by writer Diana SeoHyung, both reflecting on the theme of intervals— languaging, language breaks, aphasia, riffing, and repeating.


WED. MAY 7 • 7-9PM
WORKSHOP – Journaling As Resistance #2 with Amélie Gaulier and Mylèle Negga
A series of workshops exploring the intersections of internal accountability, decolonial repair, and global solidarity through journaling and somatic practices. We will continue our conversation through a combination of practicing listening, collective reflection, and body-mind centered practices.


THURS. MAY 8 • 7-9PM
SCREENING + PANEL – We Grow From The Soil with Sarah Elawad and more
An evening centering Sudanese women, traditions, aghani (songs), and arts.
Brief presentation on the pioneering contemporary Sudanese artist Kamala Ibrahim Ishaq and a screening of the short film Al-Sit directed by Suzannah Mirghani followed by a panel discussion made up of multigenerational Sudanese women with Alsarah and Mai Abusalih, Dalia Elhassan and Ninar Taha.


FRI. MAY 9 • 7-9PM
READING – MotherTongues Reading hosted by Sylvain Souklaye
Celebrate voices from elsewhere, this is our last MOTHER TONGUEs session of the year.
It will be a moment to listen to poets sharing  poems in their native language, inviting the audience to be transported by the rhythm and musicality of unfamiliar words.souklaye

05/04/2025

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DESIGN TO LIVE - Azra Aksamija, Raafat Majzoub, Melina Philippou

Everyday Inventions from a Refugee Camp

The power of art and design to create a life worth living: designs, inventions, and artworks from the Azraq Refugee Camp in Jordan.

This book shows how refugees use art and design to transform their living environments, restoring humanity within circumstances that seem aimed at depriving them of it. Featuring more than twenty projects created by Syrian refugees at the Azraq Refugee Camp in Jordan, *Design to Live* offers a new way of understanding design as a subversive worldmaking practice and as tool for reclaiming agency in conditions of forced displacement. The projects—including a vertical garden, an arrangement necessitated by regulations that forbid planting on the ground; a front hall, fashioned to protect privacy; a baby swing, made from recycled school desks; and a chess set, carved from broomsticks—showcase the discrepancy between standardized humanitarian design and the real sociocultural needs of refugees.

This bilingual book in English and Arabic documents designs by refugees through architectural drawings, illustrations, photographs, and texts by the camp residents, humanitarian workers, and researchers who collaborated on the book across cultural and disciplinary borders.

*Design to Live* is the product of a three-year joint project of the MIT Future Heritage Lab and the Syrian refugees at the Azraq Refugee Camp, supported by CARE-Jordan and the German Jordanian University.

9780262542876
The MIT Press
344 pp., 7 x 9 in
165 figures

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05/03/2025

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GRAPHIC DESIGN PLAY BOOK – Sophie Cure, Barbara Seggio

An Exploration of Visual Thinking 

Understand how graphic design works and develop your visual sensibility through puzzles and activities! An entertaining and highly original introduction to graphic design, the Graphic Design Play Book uses puzzles and visual challenges to demonstrate how typography, signage, logo design, posters and branding work. Through a series of games and activities, including spot the difference, matching games, drawing and dot–to–dot, readers are introduced to graphic art concepts and techniques in an engaging and interactive way.

How many ways are there of saying ‘hello’? Probably a zillion. And there are surely just as many ways of writing it. In CAPITALS, and with an exclamation mark ! Or with a question mark ? Or maybe both ?! As a tiny black word in the middle of a white page; or with large, multi–coloured, dancing letters ; maybe with a simple shape or an image.Being interested in graphic design means looking at and understanding the world around us. And being aware of the multitude of signs that shape our daily life day after day and freight it with meaning – whether it’s a stop sign, a cornflakes packet, a psychedelic album cover, a seductive headline on the cover of a magazine, the more subtle typography of a page in a novel, a flashing pharmacy sign or the credits of a sci–fi film.
Thinking about this plethora of signs was what led us to conceive this introduction to graphic design as a collection of beacons and benchmarks – as a toolbox for exploring and learning in a simple and intuitive way through play, alone or with others, whether you’re a child or an adult. These are experiments, a series of suggestions, with no right or wrong answers.The four sections of this book – typography, posters, signs, identity – are all invitations to dive in, explore and let your eyes and your hands take you on a voyage of discovery! – Sophie Cure and Aurélien Farina

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