Category: Non-Fiction
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Book Review: The Kite Runner
“The man who has a conscience suffers while acknowledging his sin. That is his punishment.” Published in 2003, The Kite Runner is Khaled Hosseini’s debut novel and masterpiece. The book has sold millions of copies worldwide, inspired several adaptations, and won various awards, including the Alex Award, the Borders Original Voices Award, and the Outstanding…
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Book Review: The Blind Owl
While existentialism emphasizes an individual’s search for meaning, absurdism acknowledges the impossibility of attaining certainty in an irrational world. Both philosophies are profoundly reflected in Sadegh Hedayat’s The Blind Owl. Isolated and alienated, the narrator struggles to find meaning amid psychological fragmentation and blurred boundaries between reality and hallucination. Ultimately, the narrative engages with nihilistic…
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But What If I Don’t Want To Be a Content Creator?
When I first joined social media, it didn’t look like what it does today. To create a Facebook account, I had to lie and say I was born in 1980-something. I was still in school, and we used to write inside jokes and birthday greetings on each other’s ‘walls.’ We used to update our ‘status’…
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Book Review: the Granada Trilogy
Colonialism, deportation, and apartheid: history repeats itself. Actors change, yet politics prevail, as individual stories lose to mass graves. The Granada Trilogy by Radwa Ashour follows consecutive generations of the Muslim family of Abu Jaafar and his children after the fall of Granada in 1492. Radwa Ashour (1946-2014) was an Egyptian novelist, university professor, and…
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Book Review: A Thousand Splendid Suns
A few weeks ago, the Taliban issued a law in Afghanistan permitting men to beat their women and children, provided they do not leave any fractures or open wounds. With this law, domestic violence is treated as a matter of discretion rather than a criminal offense, and women and children continue to suffer under the…
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Book Review: Utopia
As the world we live in crumbles in anticipation of a third World War, unprecedented economic deterioration, and multiple genocides, the media shows a different reality – from Red Carpet events to celebrity culture. Meanwhile, the real issues at stake spiral into endless doomscrolling. The reality we live in today echoes Suzanne Collins’ “The Hunger…
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سأقتلع عيني يا أبي
لقد فَقَدَتْ عيناي القدرة على التأثر والانفعال. صارت تمر بأحداث ومشاهدات، فيها ما فيها من القتل والعنف والدم والسلخ والجلد والتقطيع والتقطيب، ورغم ذلك، لا تومئ فيها ولا تتأثر ولا يرف لها جفن. لقد ظن من حولي أنني من النوع المقدام، فردوا ذلك إلى قيم الشجاعة وقوة القلب، وتهامسوا عني أن ذاك ”قلبه ميت”، وغيرهم…
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Book Review: Orhan’s Inheritance
Originally published in 2015, Aline Ohanesian’s debut novel, ‘Orhan’s Inheritance,’ is a beautiful and emotional historical fiction about the Armenian Genocide. While not recognized by many, the Armenian Genocide, facilitated by the Ottomon Empire in an attempt to expel Armenians from the Ottomon Empire after World War One, resulted in the killing of approximately 1…
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في انتظار كتابتك
.أكتب الآن، لأن ليس بوسعي فعل أي شيء غير الكتابة ،لا يسعني أن أنظر وأرى هذا العالم الكبيرعاجزًا أشدّ العجز .وأصمت، وأصمت، وأصمت ، في الواقع، نعم، أنا أصمت .كما صمت الجميع من قبلي، وكما أُجبر البعض على الصمت .لكن، حروفي ستنفجر من بين عينيّ، ستسقط سهوًا وتثور علي وعلى السخافة التي اعترت هذا العالم بأسره…
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I Am (2)
Vagina July 14, 2024- Home, 7:30 I am a vagina. An anatomical organ, a black hole that is mysterious, isolated, hidden. A hole that leads to a canal and then to a box. An entrance to life-making, creation and pleasure. I am invaded the moment I realize my being.. Pleasure? I am the subject of…