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UN Special Rapporteur on the Right to Food, Michael Fakhri, on the Gaza flotilla — activist action breaking new ground for international law and global justice, in conversation with Lina Mounzer.
🔗 bit.ly/the-uns-spec...
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Dina Shehata’s essay “Girl, Cat, Wolf Under the Bed” traces childhood fears, survival, and silent languages in company with animals. Translated by @bookfabulous.bsky.social.
🔗 https://bit.ly/girl-cat-wolf-under-the-bed
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In “The Midday Ghoul,” Safa Elnaili reimagines a haunting Libyan folktale from a child’s point of view. This lyrical short story explores fear, family, and bitter lessons in the afternoon heat of Benghazi.
🔗 Read: https://bit.ly/the-midday-ghoul
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Mohammad Rabie’s essay, translated by Lina Mounzer explores a life marked by fear—searching for relief, joy, and wonder.
🔗 https://bit.ly/all-the-old-fears
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@aycacu.bsky.social’s short story “The Intersection”: a meeting, a collision, and the tension of caring “too much.”
🔗 bit.ly/the-intersect...
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Farah Ahamed’s short story “A Safe Place”: a woman in solitary in Pakistan rethinks sanity and survival.
🔗 bit.ly/a-safe-place-
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Check out our list of 10 powerful books from The Markaz Review’s new issue—stories of survival, mental health, and resistance across continents.
🔗 See the list: bit.ly/10-books-for-...
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Real Bakhit’s essay reveals the lives of Sudanese exiles—finding joy, coping with guilt, and seeking belonging in crisis.
🔗 Read: bit.ly/i-dont-have-t...
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Malu Halasa explores how Iranians seek solace and healing amid protest and crisis—tracing a path from grief to hope through therapy, resistance, and care.
🔗 Read: bit.ly/remaining-in-...
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@jordanelgrably.bsky.social profiles Sara Shamma, whose powerful art channels trauma, memory, and emotional survival in a fractured world.
🔗 Read: bit.ly/sara-shamma-f...
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Joelle Abi-Rached (@joelleabirached.bsky.social) exposes the limits of psychiatry and language to hold Gaza’s trauma—where grief, violence, and survival are inseparable from justice.
🔗 Read: bit.ly/trauma-after-...
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Senior Editor Lina Mounzer (@warghetti.bsky.social) reflects on war, grief, and clarity in chaos, introducing our September issue about madness and meaning across the Middle East.
🔗 Read: bit.ly/why-out-of-ou...
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📣 NEW ISSUE: TMR 53 #OutofOurMinds is live today!
Join us in embracing vulnerability and collective care in these uncertain times.
🔗 Read now: bit.ly/tmr-53-out-of...
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