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Fanaa
Break yo'self.
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July 18, 2025 at 3:36 AM
Just launched this Substack called “Sacred Learning.” InshaAllah, I’ll be sharing my story about the 13 years I spent in a high control Sufi group. Subscribe to follow along.
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July 14, 2025 at 2:16 PM
Just launched this Substack called “Sacred Learning.” InshaAllah, I’ll be sharing my story about the 13 years I spent in a high control Sufi group. Subscribe to follow along.
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Nice article about one of my favorite subjects: story structure.
Wrote about some of my favorite novels with unusual structures for @literaryhub.bsky.social! lithub.com/neither-plot...
Neither Plot Nor Character, But… Something Else? Ten Novels with Mind-Blowing Structures
It is conventional wisdom that novels are either plot-driven or character-driven, but I’ve long been fascinated with the way structure can drive a story. Structure is the vessel we pour our narrati…
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May 13, 2025 at 10:26 PM
Nice article about one of my favorite subjects: story structure.
If you are a Muslim writer, please consider joining this workshop. I attended the one in April and found it beneficial alhamdolillah.
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May 6, 2025 at 9:29 PM
If you are a Muslim writer, please consider joining this workshop. I attended the one in April and found it beneficial alhamdolillah.
literary-arts.org/event/yallah...
literary-arts.org/event/yallah...
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The New Yorker won three Pulitzer Prizes—the most ever awarded to a magazine in a single year—for its journalism on the effects of war throughout the Middle East.
The New Yorker Wins Three 2025 Pulitzer Prizes
The awards honor Mosab Abu Toha’s commentary on the Israel-Hamas war in Gaza; Moises Saman’s photographs of Syria after Assad, and the third season of the In the Dark podcast.
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May 5, 2025 at 7:44 PM
The New Yorker won three Pulitzer Prizes—the most ever awarded to a magazine in a single year—for its journalism on the effects of war throughout the Middle East.
Sometimes grosser than seeing how the sausage is made is seeing it eaten.
May 5, 2025 at 3:58 PM
Sometimes grosser than seeing how the sausage is made is seeing it eaten.
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ICE Opens New Supermax Detention Center For Most Hardened Toddlers
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May 5, 2025 at 2:00 PM
ICE Opens New Supermax Detention Center For Most Hardened Toddlers
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There’s a container ship loaded with subversive arthouse VHS tapes that’s turning round on the high seas right now. The staff of the Criterion Collection have been charged with breaches of the Foreign Films Act
May 5, 2025 at 4:33 AM
There’s a container ship loaded with subversive arthouse VHS tapes that’s turning round on the high seas right now. The staff of the Criterion Collection have been charged with breaches of the Foreign Films Act
Excellent video about telling original stories. youtu.be/1hQLp2Cl49Q?...
Stop chasing original ideas—here’s what actually makes you creative
YouTube video by Lofi Cinema
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May 4, 2025 at 3:27 PM
Excellent video about telling original stories. youtu.be/1hQLp2Cl49Q?...
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Jia Tolentino writes about how Donald Trump and “his lieutenant content-generator Elon Musk” harness the internet to damage our sense of the real.
My Brain Finally Broke
Much of what we see now is fake, and the reality we face is full of horrors. More and more of the world is slipping beyond my comprehension.
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May 3, 2025 at 4:06 PM
Jia Tolentino writes about how Donald Trump and “his lieutenant content-generator Elon Musk” harness the internet to damage our sense of the real.
Finished listening to this story. It's fun so check it out! podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/t...
April 29, 2025 at 2:26 AM
Finished listening to this story. It's fun so check it out! podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/t...
Dying
Some say democracy dies in darkness.
Does the illusion of democracy thrive in darkness? Add some moisture. Can the illusion grow like mold?
Do cruel rulers kill in coldness? Can they sleep without guards? Do they care?
Ibn Khaldoun said, nations rise and fall.
Some say democracy dies in darkness.
Does the illusion of democracy thrive in darkness? Add some moisture. Can the illusion grow like mold?
Do cruel rulers kill in coldness? Can they sleep without guards? Do they care?
Ibn Khaldoun said, nations rise and fall.
April 28, 2025 at 6:07 PM
Dying
Some say democracy dies in darkness.
Does the illusion of democracy thrive in darkness? Add some moisture. Can the illusion grow like mold?
Do cruel rulers kill in coldness? Can they sleep without guards? Do they care?
Ibn Khaldoun said, nations rise and fall.
Some say democracy dies in darkness.
Does the illusion of democracy thrive in darkness? Add some moisture. Can the illusion grow like mold?
Do cruel rulers kill in coldness? Can they sleep without guards? Do they care?
Ibn Khaldoun said, nations rise and fall.
Personal Essay: Black Magic
As a child growing up in an Indian Muslim household within secular Davis, California, my parents taught me about magic. They said it was forbidden in Islam. My mother shared stories...
Continue reading here:
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As a child growing up in an Indian Muslim household within secular Davis, California, my parents taught me about magic. They said it was forbidden in Islam. My mother shared stories...
Continue reading here:
medium.com/@ysazhar/per...
April 25, 2025 at 4:51 AM
Personal Essay: Black Magic
As a child growing up in an Indian Muslim household within secular Davis, California, my parents taught me about magic. They said it was forbidden in Islam. My mother shared stories...
Continue reading here:
medium.com/@ysazhar/per...
As a child growing up in an Indian Muslim household within secular Davis, California, my parents taught me about magic. They said it was forbidden in Islam. My mother shared stories...
Continue reading here:
medium.com/@ysazhar/per...
The News
When I was small, my father watched the evening news. He would talk to the TV. Or to us. I'm not sure. I didn't understand. I knew he was excited, or upset or happy.
When I was small, my father watched the evening news. He would talk to the TV. Or to us. I'm not sure. I didn't understand. I knew he was excited, or upset or happy.
April 19, 2025 at 5:05 PM
The News
When I was small, my father watched the evening news. He would talk to the TV. Or to us. I'm not sure. I didn't understand. I knew he was excited, or upset or happy.
When I was small, my father watched the evening news. He would talk to the TV. Or to us. I'm not sure. I didn't understand. I knew he was excited, or upset or happy.
I hate when people commit to call me at a certain time then don’t. I just did that to someone :(
April 19, 2025 at 1:36 AM
I hate when people commit to call me at a certain time then don’t. I just did that to someone :(
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Clayton Dalton asked paramedics in Gaza what was hardest about their work. Responding to an airstrike and discovering that it’s your own family, one said. Recovering the bodies of children, said another. nyer.cm/Iz1ztSY
April 18, 2025 at 2:40 PM
Clayton Dalton asked paramedics in Gaza what was hardest about their work. Responding to an airstrike and discovering that it’s your own family, one said. Recovering the bodies of children, said another. nyer.cm/Iz1ztSY
No one finds poetry in the wild, in objects or in actions waiting to be plucked. We poemify.
Quran (30:22)
“And among His signs is the creation of the heavens and the earth, and the diversity of your languages and your colors. Indeed in that are signs for those of knowledge.”
Quran (30:22)
“And among His signs is the creation of the heavens and the earth, and the diversity of your languages and your colors. Indeed in that are signs for those of knowledge.”
April 16, 2025 at 10:43 PM
No one finds poetry in the wild, in objects or in actions waiting to be plucked. We poemify.
Quran (30:22)
“And among His signs is the creation of the heavens and the earth, and the diversity of your languages and your colors. Indeed in that are signs for those of knowledge.”
Quran (30:22)
“And among His signs is the creation of the heavens and the earth, and the diversity of your languages and your colors. Indeed in that are signs for those of knowledge.”
I’m not upset because a loved one wronged me. I’m upset because I can no longer trust or respect someone I love.
April 15, 2025 at 2:54 AM
I’m not upset because a loved one wronged me. I’m upset because I can no longer trust or respect someone I love.
See you tonight iA!
April 11, 2025 at 9:51 PM
See you tonight iA!
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April 10, 2025 at 1:54 PM