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Narrow medina street in Marrakech with orange vendors and mopeds

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FICTION

“To walk through an Arab city is to be educated by the senses before the mind has a chance to form an opinion. Colour comes first — then smell, then sound, layered and without hierarchy.”

LAYLA NASSAR

BEIRUT / LONDON

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ESSAY

The Manuscript as Memory: Arabic Script in the Age of Algorithm

Rasha Al-Amin — Issue V

Between the door of the old country and the door of the new, there is a room only the body remembers.

POEM

Mariam Bazzi

1:47:00

FILM

The Salt Between Us

Directed by Lina Soualem

FILMS

1:22:00

Where the Sea Remembers

52:00

Olive Harvest

1:08:00

Terracotta Hours

ESSAY

What the Ruins Know: Archaeology as Counter-Narrative in Literature

When colonial archaeology classified our monuments as "ancient," it severed the living thread between community and memory.

KHALED MATTAWA14 min read

PODCAST — EP. 23

Diaspora, Language & the Untranslatable

54:12 — Sinan Antoon

PODCAST — EP. 24

The Archive as Act of Resistance

1:02:40 — Etel Adnan