June 19, 2026

I Am Not Your Translator

by Fady Joudah

Without the untranslatable the translatable is nonviable. The untranslatable, too, is a biologic imperative. At the gene level, an intron is a noncoding sequence that indicates where the translatable sequence is. And the untranslatable is a cosmic imperative as well. The Arabic dark matter with which English light seems unwilling to interact.

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May 15, 2026

letter to fadwa tuqan

by Safa Khatib

this poem suffocates on my tongue, one of the many tongues of the executioner

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