@juliacv.bsky.social
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Read some of these haunting letters I had the honor of curating for ArabLit's Grief issue.

arablit.org/grief/
May 1, 2025 at 8:42 PM
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"After Mahmoud Khalil was abducted, I locked myself inside my home for a month." Why @elgendy95.bsky.social, a former political prisoner in Egypt, decided he had no choice but to flee Donald Trump's America.
Why I Had to Flee the United States
I was a political prisoner in Egypt. I didn’t want to become one again in America.
www.thenation.com
May 2, 2025 at 4:06 PM
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Please check out our recent series—on life amid war, and life as resistance, from the vantage of Lebanon's current season of war and war's long history there: culanth.org/fieldsights/...
Another Season of War in Lebanon
This collection of essays illuminates the seasonality of war in Lebanon (its present and its longue durée), looking at how those who inhabit Leba...
culanth.org
April 23, 2025 at 8:42 PM
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GRIEF Preview: Nasser Rabah’s ‘A Swarm of Ants’

The Spring 2025 GRIEF issue of ArabLit Quarterly is coming in three days -- on April 30, 2025. Today, a poem from the issue in Wiam El-Tamami's translation.
GRIEF Preview: Nasser Rabah’s ‘A Swarm of Ants’
The Spring 2025 GRIEF issue of ArabLit Quarterly is coming in three days -- on April 30, 2025. Today, a poem from the issue in Wiam El-Tamami's translation.
arablit.org
April 27, 2025 at 5:20 AM
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In the Spring 2025 issue of ArabLit Quarterly (GRIEF) -- coming in five days -- we make a shared space to grieve and to build together from that grief.

"May what we mourn propel us toward our collective liberation." - guest editor Abdelrahman ElGendy
April 25, 2025 at 9:21 AM