September 18, 2026

Litterateur as Saboteur: Review of HUNA by Abdelrahman ElGendy

by Nour Eldin Hussein

Hereness is in smiling for the mugshot camera. Hereness is inside the prison itself, turning the null space into a source of meaning unto itself. Hereness is pure being; it is what remains when the Arms have seized everything else.

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October 5, 2023

Postscript on Myth and Memory: Kan (Ya)( )Ma( )Kan

by Nour Eldin Hussein

An excellent guarantee against orthodoxy,” variation in the Arabic folkloric canon comes to form a mode of collective composition where authenticity stems not from the triumphant excavation of a uniform, authoritative text, but from the very presence of variants themselves.

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