Now imagine all the horrors we are yet to uncover and those yet to happen.

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NEW: Iranians in both Iran and the diaspora are reckoning with the failures of the Woman, Life, Freedom movement and the regime’s persistence. A lack of organized political opposition is to blame, argues Arash Azizi آرش عزیزی. newlinesmag.com/argument/the-f…

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Really enjoyed aeon.co/essays/living-… by Farah Abdessamad -- 'stained with incompleteness' is a terrific description. thanks Aeon+Psyche

Soutien!

Author is Arab?

✅ “Archaisms”
✅ “Exoticisms”
✅ “Seems to come from another culture” like some vague allusion/accusation (from which culture of reference?)

Sigh….

Why aren’t we talking about how expensive flights have become?!

Low cost => price of regular companies a few years ago

Luxury to even check in a bag these days!

Grumpy migrant 😬

Spoke with The New Arab Jakob Plaschke on the deteriorating human rights situation in Tunisia where thousands of African migrants trapped in Tunisias olive fields are being bounced back and forth between the sea, and the Libyan & Algerian borders.
newarab.com/features/afric… DIIS Denmark

'the North Africans who stumbled into Fanon’s hospital weren’t deranged or cunning. They were unwell because adverse conditions in French society had crushed their humanity.' #Pain #Colonialism #NorthAfrica by Farah Abdessamad - aeon.co/essays/living-…

My elusive pain
Source: Aeon | a world of ideas
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This book is going on my to-buy list! Great review of The Book Censor's Library by Kuwaiti author Bothayna Al Essa in The New Arab by Farah Abdessamad

You know that when a novel is translated by Sawad Hussain it's going to be good!

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The best feedback as a writer is for fellow Arabs/North Africans/Muslims to reach out and say they feel seen and heard, and witnessing others leaning into a different perspective.

Overjoyed with the response to my latest essay, it means the world in such a broken time 🙏

'I am oil and vinegar; I am from a blood that traditionally doesn’t really mix. I might not make sense to you but it’s and not or', writes Farah Abdessamad on #postcolonial trauma as a physical, emotional & intellectual condition Farah Abdessamad Aeon+Psyche aeon.co/essays/living-…

If NorthAfricans are marginalised in Paris and elsewhere, it stands to reason that they might feel pain more keenly. So said Franz Fanon, and Farah Abdessamad agrees.
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