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  • Notes on Craft: Writing in the Hour of Genocide

    Notes on Craft: Writing in the Hour of Genocide

    Fargo Tbakhi writes with this reflective essay on the role and duty of writing in this time of a genocide. How do hegemonic prerogatives dictate style, content, and status? What can words do for us, when words are also the vehicle of cruel ideology?

  • OF

    OF

    In “OF,” Palestinian poet and performance artist Fargo Tbakhi seethes against the violence of Israeli occupation and honors the vitality of Palestinian culture and resistance.

  • antigone 11

    antigone 11

    when power decreed that body un-grievable, / everyone made mourning like a pet.