The body, the first home we inhabit and the only one we carry throughout our lives, is also the doorway through which the world enters us. It carries memories that shape both the individual and the collective. It is where identity is negotiated, where violence leaves its mark, and where we create and give birth—to ideas, art, and new life. At a time when bodies across the region are increasingly subjected to displacement, surveillance, erasure, and violence, the body has become impossible to separate from the political realities that shape everyday life. Across this edition of Daftar, Al Jasad (The Body), contributors approach the body as a living terrain shaped by movement, memory, ritual, migration, grief, desire, and renewal. Through photography, art, literature, performance, and critical essays, the body emerges as both witness and participant. From the rhythms of movement and ceremony to the traces left by displacement, from the racialized and politicized body to the seasonal wisdom of the womb, these contributions reveal the many ways bodies carry worlds within them.