Wisam Rafeedie thought the book he had been painstakingly writing while in captivity in an occupation prison had been lost forever when a prison guard had confiscated it. He was therefore shocked to find the novel, The Trinity of Fundamentals, on the prisoner’s political education curriculum list a few years later. In fact it had been pieced together from excerpts he had distributed across six prisons through a clandestine system used by political prisoners to move materials and information. Various parts of the novel had been shared via pieces of bread dough or capsules thrown across cells.

The term "الكبسولة" ("the capsule") refers to tiny, handwritten messages that prisoners ingest to smuggle information during transfers or visits. These capsules have been instrumental in organising collective actions, such as hunger strikes, and in unifying demands among prisoners.

"The capsule" is made from small, thin pieces of paper on which prisoners write their messages. The paper is shaped into a rectangular form, wrapped in plastic, and its ends are burned to create a smooth, streamlined shape, making it easier to swallow or hide. Resembling a medicine capsule, this is where it gets its name.

Can you make a message that would be small enough to fit into a capsule?

What would you write in your message? 

**Liberated from Zionist prisons,  PYM (Palestine Youth Movement) translated Rafeedie’s Trinity of Fundamentals this year. You can buy it from Maqam books in the UK @maqambooks