Slave King: Rebels Against Empire is a novel about a slave uprising in Sicily, circa 140–132 BCE, seven decades prior to the better known Spartacus rebellion. Younis, born in the area now known as Syria, is brought to Sicily as a slave, became a tutor to wealthy children, then forged a coalition of slaves, farmers and herders that defeated Roman armies and established a more egalitarian polity for a time.

Cover art by Mustafa El Hallaj

New nonfiction from Daraja Press discussing the experience of being a Black Polish man, looking at the experience both historically and personally.

A future history novel from Daraja Press. The UK is fracturing, England is on the brink of collapse and far-right militias are rising to power, with Islamophobia and English nationalism as their rallying cries. Brutal violence ensues and 19-year-old Marah Sultana is thrust into a battle for survival. Hunted by mercenaries, she carries a secret powerful enough to change the course of the war — and the future of the world.

The title is set in Ouroboros.

Night Settles upon Tthe City is a new book of poetry by Omar Sabbagh about life and experiences currently in Beirut.

Palestine Wail is a collection of poems by Yahia Lababidi, published by Daraja Press. The cover illustration, chosen by Lababidi, is Symbol of Hope by Sliman Mansour.

This novel by Tariq Mehmood was first published in England in 1983. This new edition features cover art by Daniel Heikalo, with the image from the original Penguin edition on the back cover. The new and updated edition was published in Canada by Daraja Press.

New book from Daraja Press. I felt that the fonts from Pangram Pangram married well with the bleak image to make a strong statement.

Cover for collective work about cross-fertilization of educational ideas between Quebec and Haiti. First published in French, then translated into Kreyòl ayisyen, or Haitian Creole. Both covers use Roslindale. The translation credit on the Haitian cover additionally uses Quattrocento Sans.

Book published by Éditions science et bien commun.

Cover for a book produced by FEMSAM, a Quebec City collective advocating for healthcare support for pregnant immigrant women who do not yet have coverage under the RAMQ (Régime d’assurance maladie du Québec), Quebec's health insurance program.

Book published by ESBC, Éditions science et bien commun.

Singing to Liberation is about Indian students’ resistance to the wave of nationalism in their country.

Published by Daraja Press, Wakefield, Quebec.

As the title suggests, Nicholas Mwangi’s book The Rastafari Movement: A Beginner’s Guide offers a brief but cogent guide to the origins and practices of Rastafarianism, taking it beyond the commonly understood traditions of reggae music and ganja.

Cover for a new publication from Éditions science et bien commun, the publishing house founded by Florence Piron. Her work is being continued by others in her circle. One of Florence's aims was to bring works from African academics to prominence. Gilbert Willy Tio Babena is an academic at the Université de Maroua in Cameroon.

Cover design for a new book about a piece of Black history that has not before been summarized in quite this way. Written by Atticus Bagby-Williams and Nsambu Za Suekama, and edited by Shannon Fauwkes with Howard Waitzkin, Black Anarchism and the Black Radical Tradition will be published by Daraja Press in January 2023.

“The Commons Revolution and the Law” is a book about new land issues in Africa, America, and Europe, published in French by Édition science et bien commun.

The cover typeface is Scorpio. This condensed design is based on lettering Michael Harvey drew for the card “The Sign of The Nudge” which was designed in collaboration with the concrete poet, Ian Hamilton Finlay. Harvey also used it on some of the many book jackets he designed. Andy Benedek turned into a digital font in 2015, two years after Harevy died. Scorpio is supported by Univers 67.

The art for this book cover was generated using the Midjourney Ai image web app. Published by Éditions Science et Bien Commun (ESBC). The topic is difficult to pin down – it’s a collection of sociological essays about working women with disabilities.

All-caps Shrikhand is paired with Mezz Black and italic caps from English Grotesque for the cover of We Rise for Our Land: Land Struggles and Repression in Southern Africa. Edited by Boaventura Monjane, with a foreword by Issa Shivji and an afterword by Masego Madzwamuse, this book was published in June 2021 by Daraja Press, in cooperation with the Sam Moyo African Institute for Agrarian Studies.

Cover design for an anthology about evaluation practices, edited by Thomas Delahais, Agathe Devaux-Spatarakis, Anne Revillard, and Valéry Ridde. The title is set in PS Fournier, accompanied by Hesse Antiqua. The author names are added in Bliss, likewise set center-aligned and in caps with small caps. The book was published in November 2021 by Éditions science et bien commun and is also available as a web version under the Creative Commons Share Alike license.

Zurita by RodrigoTypo is the typeface chosen for the title of this book by Zophia Edwards, published by Daraja Press, in cooperation with Zand Graphics Ltd, Kenya. It’s set in four stacked and justified lines, and is paired with Chinese Rocks by Typodermic for the author’s name. The cover image is RAT RACE – unfinished business (2018) by Trinbagonian artist Karl Doyle. The series name, Thinking Freedom, uses Harman Sans (Ahmet Altun).

Cover design for a book with preliminary results of action research in the deep south of Haiti after Hurricane Matthew, edited by Rochambeau Lainy. For the typography, I paired two weights of Begum with Festivo LC. The book was published in March 2020 by Éditions science et bien commun and is also available as a web version under the Creative Commons Share Alike license.

A chromatic use of Resistenza’s Turquoise Inline, paired with solid Turquoise and Avenir for the cover of the second edition of Transforming ourselves, Transforming the World: An open conspiracy for social change, written by Brian K. Murphy with an introduction by David Austin, and published by Daraja Press in May 2021.