What role does memory play within a state of perpetual displacement? How does one resist forgetting under this precarity? And what does it mean to truly remember when memory is the space where catastrophe and pain reside? Continue reading “We are Guardians of Memory”: On Sara Abou Ghazal’s Dreams of Ayn Ara
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: Finding Hope in Political Despair
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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 (On Having a Turkish Passport & Nazlı Koca’s Novel The Applicant)
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 River Spirit
The value of In Quest of a Homeland for me lies in its honesty and contribution to, in historian Juliet Gardiner’s terms (1988), history as an ongoing dialogue between the present and the past. Continue reading A Man without a Country: In Quest of a Homeland by Yousof Mamoor
It is March, I know, but it’s never too late to do anything, right? And this should include writing and posting late review posts. Continue reading Back at My Writing Desk & A Year of Soulful Books | 2021 in Review
As I continued to read the emails Alice and Eileen exchange throughout the novel, I realized: as citizens of the world, we had more in common than I initially thought. Continue reading Civilizational Collapse & the Beauty of Connection: Sally Rooney’s Beautiful World, Where Are You
Together is, indeed, a crucial text that is brutally, lovingly, and magically real. It is the ultimate celebration of our kind and what we can achieve to not only survive but to survive beautifully. Continue reading Ece Temelkuran’s Together: Heart-Shaped Stones, Whitman & Us
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