I was sitting on the bus yesterday morning, reading with headphones in, hood up, lost in my own world, when the woman sitting next to me accidentally elbowed me. She apologized, then in a deep southern drawl, asked, “Whatcha readin’?” I, headphones, still in, flipped the book closed to show her the cover: She paused […]
This is a guest post written by my friend Saed Karzoun, and translated from its original Arabic by Amani Omari. The article in its original Arabic can be found at 7iber.com. On my typical day-to-day life, I hang out with a group of young boys and girls like myself; and I realized their growing temptation […]
Something is rotten in the kingdom of Morocco proclaims Issandr El Amrani in a Guardian piece about the closure of Moroccan magazine Le Journal Hebdomadaire. Though El Amrani notes that the Le Journal case is only one indicator, something is rotten, indeed. The magazine’s offices were liquidated after a commercial appeals court declared that Le […]