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Edward Said’s call to “narrate” and “record” has never stopped being relevant in the Palestinian struggle. In fact, Palestinian narratives have taken an increasingly important role in the resistance against the systemic erasure of their history. Continue reading The Power of Narrative & Why Edward Said Would Be Proud: 35 Palestinian Narratives to Read
Politics cannot be trusted, I know, but this week and until it lasts I only want to bask in the light of hope and in the possibility of change. Continue reading Elections, a Beam of Light, and Woolf
And one question that comes to me in waves, along with grief, is this: How do we make sense of an absence that remains perpetually present? Continue reading On Presence of Absence, Grief, and Magical Thinking
The world needs individuals who are unafraid to question, challenge, and think independently—a seemingly silent yet potent form of activism. Continue reading “For the Love of the Books” & of Resistance
As I think these thoughts now, I’m also wondering whether Ernaux would call them real because I’m not so sure. Continue reading Another Summer Gone: Paris, the Realness of Thoughts & Ernaux’s The Years
This is my third attempt to sit down and write an academic post on J.M. Coetzee’s 1999 novel Disgrace, and it gives me joy that I am not writing it. Continue reading Rilke, Joy, and a Spring Morning That Feels Like Fall
Sure, I had the privilege of choosing to leave my homeland, but how much of that choice was really mine to begin with? Continue reading Dear Europe: I Promise I’m Not Staying
In these trying times, there may be attempts to take advantage of your generosity and grief. Here are some reputable ways to help Turkey and Syria. Continue reading On Turkey & Syria: How You Can Help
What is not to love about a postcolonial novel that complicates the concepts of “victory” and “heroism,” inviting questions about whose victory, whose hero, and whose version of events–whose (hi)story is being told? Continue reading Decolonizing History & Reclaiming the Narrative: Leila Aboulela’s Latest Novel River Spirit
READING & WRITING TO MAKE MEANING OF THE WORLD AND BEYOND 
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