The Paper Channel is a small independent publishing house. Our work consists of self-published small bilingual books in עברית and العربية that include text and visual art. Besides our books we also represent other local independent publishers.
פסטיבל הפנזינים — a festival sporting fanzines and independent culture. The biennial Israeli fanzine festival, held at the New Central Bus Station in Tel Aviv; a meeting of small presses, zinesters, photocopiers and risographs selling local and international editions.
A Palestinian–Israeli art & culture magazine, in collaboration with Aphorisma Publishing House. 80 pages, three alphabets, one fold.
A typewriter, a cabinet, a bicycle cart. Interviews about art books, conducted in public, printed that night.
Life without IP. A small handbook for disappearing from your own devices — bilingual, subversive, printed on recycled paper.
The Paper Channel is a small independent publishing house. Our work consists of self-published small bilingual books in Hebrew and Arabic that include text and visual art. Besides our books we also represent other local independent publishers.
Founded in Jerusalem in 2014, moved to Berlin in 2019. We run off a typewriter, a risograph, and a folding table. We print between 80 and 400 copies of each title. When they sell out, they sell out.
Each book begins as a meeting — over coffee, over a border, over email. We work with poets, artists, translators and troublemakers. We pay everyone something. We pay nobody enough.
We do not take advertising. We do not use AI to set our type. Covers are made by hand and scanned with the lid open.
كتب صغيرة، ثنائية اللغة. لا إعلانات. لا ترجمات مهذّبة.
— Yosi Lampel & Tzachi Zaki Avinoam, editors
We're always happy to receive open calls, manuscripts and proposals. Bilingual work especially welcome — send us something that refuses to translate itself politely.
→ yosilampel@gmail.comBooks are sold directly from the press. Write to us — we'll send a parcel, a PDF, or an invitation to pick it up in person.
→ yosilampel@gmail.com