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People are trapped in history and history is trapped in people. —Notes of a Native Son, James Baldwin
Basharat Peer • Curfewed Night
Bolbol had worked hard to gain the trust of his neighborhood. The details on his identity card marked him out for suspicion; for four years now, similar details had spelled catastrophe for many others. Thousands of people disappeared without a trace, simply for being born in areas controlled by the opposition, just as many regime supporters had dis
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Sadiq Khan.
Gregory David Roberts • Shantaram: A Novel
Zohar Atkins • The Liberal Arts Are Dying Because Liberalism is Dying
Orientalism
One of his father’s neighbors’ sons—an engineering student turned combatant in the Free Syrian Army—called Bolbol and informed him that his father’s health made it very difficult for him to remain in the besieged village. Bolbol couldn’t bring himself to say anything in reply—not out of shock from hearing about his father’s deterioration, but from
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