Dallas Is Lit! Book & Author Fair

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Book review: “Minor Detail”, by Adania Shibli

Adania Shibli’s Minor Detail is a short novel that behaves like a pressure chamber. It is emotionally heavy, deeply unsettling, and engineered to sustain a haunting tension long after the final page.…

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Book review: “To have and to have more”

On the surface, To Have and to Have More is a story set in an elite boarding school, centered on a complicated friendship between two American girls from radically different…

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Gendered Performance

Bringing "Drummers and Dreamers" to life has been incredibly rewarding. In researching, I found my way back to emblematic voices of Aita—Fatna Bent Lhoucine, and Bouchaib El Bidaoui, who often…

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Book review: “My Friends” by Hisham Matar

Although I usually prefer reading the words on the page, a season of long drives led me to the audiobook of My Friends, narrated by Hisham Matar himself. I am…

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On Protests And Freedom Of Speech

While Trump announced the ceasefire two days ago, the protests continue, because, an advocacy group stated, "it ain't over, until the Palestinians say so". Just as it didn't start on…

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Stadiums But No Schools

Since late September 2025, thousands of Moroccan youth have taken to the streets of Casablanca, Rabat, Agadir, Oujda, and other cities. This happened just as I am preparing to publish…

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Autoimmune & Mental Health Warriors

I was born in a North African immigrant family in France, where, from a very young age, I faced racial abuse, physical and verbal, sometimes from teachers. It came as…

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