Storm bookstore

06/21/2026

STORM POPUP • Mercredi 24 Juin

Inspiré des traditions SWANA (Sud-Ouest asiatique et Afrique du Nord), cet atelier invite les enfants à fabriquer leur propre amulette protectrice, à suspendre ou à porter en collier. Avec des chutes de tissus, des perles, des gravures, des papiers, ils y glisseront leurs messages pour repartir avec un gri-gri unique.

Talin et Théa Spring est un duo mère-fille réuni par une même sensibilité pour les matières et les histoires qu’elles racontent. Designer d’intérieur et de textile née à Istanbul, Talin puise dans la rencontre des cultures pour composer des assemblages intuitifs. Architecte et co-fondatrice du studio METISMETIS à Paris, Théa conçoit, elle, des espaces et objets nourris par le respect des savoir-faire artisanaux et l’histoire des matériaux. Théa Spring

On vous attend ce mercredi! On aura de la limonade fraiche :)

Mercredi 24 Juin
16 à 18h
Union de la Jeunesse Internationale 💚💚 Union de la Jeunesse Internationale
4 bd Marguerite de Rochechouart, 75018 Paris

06/21/2026

STORM IN PARIS • June 24
WHAT DOES FABRIC HOLD?
Memory, Identity, Roots & Resistance.

What are roots to you? Are they embedded in one place or do you take them with you wherever you go? Can you define them clearly?
Are we progressively losing our identity through the dilution of object and textile? Are we forgetting how strongly craft used to bind us all.

From their essential, everyday use to their role in colonialism and the rise of fast fashion, the threads we wear, weave, and pass down have always held power: the power to communicate, to control, to resist, and to preserve. Yet the stories embedded in cloth about identity, belonging, craft knowledge, and cultural survival, are clearly on the verge of disappearing.

On June 24th, we welcome Nur Kaoukji, Lebanese designer, creative director, and co-founder of ecru, for a story telling session on textiles as a living language of home, heritage, and quiet rebellion through anecdotes of her experiences as a multicultural citizen and a lover of craft. With over 20 years of work rooted in traditional craftsmanship across India and the Arab world, Nur brings personal experience to questions of what fabric says about our identity.

06/19/2026

A second stop in Paris this June for Storm.
In movement again 🌪️
This time, we will be landing in Random Access Memory Library, hosted within Union Jeunesse Internationale.
For three days • June 23-24-25 • we’ll share a selection from our book collection and host moments to gather around.

On Wednesday, June 24:

4-6pm (16-18h) • a family workshop with Talin & Thea Spring (in French), inspired by SWANA traditions, this workshop invites participants to make their own protective amulet. Using fabric scraps, beads, engravings, paper, they’ll tuck in their messages and wishes, leaving with a one-of-a-kind talisman of their own. Théa Spring

7pm (19h) • What Does Fabric Hold? Memory, Identity, Resistance (in English), storytelling with Nur Kaoukji, designer and co-founder of ecru, on what fabric carries: home, heritage, and the threads of colonialism, craft, and identity. ecru

Save the date 📅 June 23-25
More details coming soon.

A warm thank you to Union Jeunesse Internationale for welcoming us into their space. Union de la Jeunesse Internationale

We can’t wait to see you there!
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06/16/2026

This June, STORM is in residence at Jihan, a concept store rooted in African and West Asian design nestled in Paris. When Mariam and Youssef reached out, it felt like a natural encounter between our projects. A space where fashion, objects and ideas coexist, where things slow down and nuance is welcome. They transformed their space into something bigger: a universe. STORM’s selection is built around their program. Voices from the SWANA world, ecologies and belonging. Restless books for a restless space, meant to be picked up and passed on. Come find us inside. 🌀

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.

More info on our website.
See you soon!

05/16/2025

In store and online •

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.

Available in store and online • link in bio

05/15/2025

In store and online •

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

Available in store and online • link in bio