March 28, 2025

Review: Perfect Victims: And the Politics of Appeal by Mohammed El-Kurd

by Summer Farah

Subtlety: something I go back and forth worrying about, an oscillation between “not that deep” or “not worth it” to address, but with the knowledge that it is still cutting, cutting, cutting. 

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February 26, 2025

Uncrafted #2: An Interview with Sarah Aziza

by Hazem Fahmy

In the past few decades, as liberal cultural institutions have grown more dastardly effective at co-opting and defanging the political potential of writers and artists from historically marginalized backgrounds, the amorphous imperative to “witness” continuously re-emerges in the face of unceasing tragedy wrought about by the United States, its ruling class, and its ghastly allies across the globe. We are implored to “witness” atrocity after atrocity, but never as more than...

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February 18, 2025

On the Edge of a Volcano, a Rip through a Gazan’s Heart

by Diaa Wadi

Should I tell you a secret? I’m afraid of the anguish I hold within me. Do people fear their own anguish?

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