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Sargon Again and Forever
My essay on Sargon Boulus, born today in 1944. It was written in 2010, republished in 2013, and revived by Barakunan in 2021. It's here now. 🎶 And news…
Mar 10
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January 2024
Thirteen Years
"And I felt that God had appeared for real."*
Jan 28
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December 2023
New Year Confession with Selfie
Once again a piece of flash fiction, kinda
Dec 30, 2023
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November 2023
Elegies
Dear friends, After writing this personal obituary of Khaled Khalifa—which The Markaz Review were kind enough to publish for his arba’een—events in…
Nov 28, 2023
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October 2023
Human Intervention
So, out of a sense of duty to the dead and dying, I've postponed the post I had scheduled—about Sargon Boulus—in order to say something
Oct 19, 2023
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September 2023
Fire and Light
A Fragment on, among others, Bonaparte, Sheikh Imam and Youssef Chahine
Sep 17, 2023
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August 2023
The Strange Case of the Novelist from Egypt
This essay, which I feel is among my most articulate statements about contemporary Arabic literature, appeared on the Kenyon Review Blog ten years ago…
Aug 30, 2023
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July 2023
Paradise: An Autobiography
My apologies if you have read this before. It is one of my favorite things of mine in English, and I am channelling its energy for what I have been…
Jul 27, 2023
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A Muslim Medley, and a Markaz Review Conversation
My current project is a series of essays on the theme of identity, and since I want to push things forward, at least in my own mind, I'm sharing five…
Jul 11, 2023
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June 2023
Nabokov, Murakami, the Beats – and Robert Beshara
Rakha’s narrators are all unreliable, winking at the reader to confuse them. But it is through that confusion that the reader can gain access to a…
Jun 19, 2023
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A Review, a Gallery, and an Expletive
This is a disturbing book about torture, longing … and what happens when aliens are quietly manipulating your life
Jun 2, 2023
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May 2023
Holodeck 1764
The opening of my London Magazine essay on translating Leo Damrosch’s The Club to Arabic, to appear in the upcoming June/July issue
May 16, 2023
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