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Good Friday?
By Omar Sabbagh What’s so good about it? A man said.The world we live in is steeped in the bloodof innocents, the frail mathematicsof force majeure, where…
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Silent Friend, directed by Ildikó Enyedi By Rita di Santo Ildikó Enyedi, a prominent figure in contemporary Hungarian cinema, has been challenging cinematic conventions since the late…
The Pulse Beneath the Page
A prosepoem and image by Abdulghani Al-Shuabi The work gathers me, not as a master gathers his servant, but as the tide gathers the shore—unceasing, insistent, shaping….
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Silent Friend, directed by Ildikó Enyedi By Rita di Santo Ildikó Enyedi, a prominent figure in contemporary Hungarian cinema, has been challenging cinematic conventions since... Continue reading
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