Rajab Al-Reefi is a skater living in Gaza, a friend of SkatePal and the founder of Gaza Skate Team. Alongside a t-shirt we made to raise awareness of his emergency crowd-funding appeal, we spoke with Rajab about his story, and what skateboarding means to him.

For our latest merch we collaborated with Japanese illustrator Momoe Narazaki, who published a series of zines interviewing a number of Ramallah skaters including - Malak, Nadeen and Zaina and Maen Hammad. We caught up with Momoe about the inspirations behind her wholesome drawings and how family and farming comes through in her work.

Nora Zeid is an incredible Egyptian illustrator and artist who we worked together with on a new merch capsule. The collection is dedicated to three locations in Palestine where SkatePal currently runs skate schools, and showcases the beauty of the everyday life in the West Bank. Here’s our conversation with Nora…

A quick Q&A with Mais Ahmed, the Syrian designer, SkatePal supporter and creator of our latest ‘Dates’ tee…