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A Kilo of Flour

Hassan Ayman Herzallah

My father called from the market to say he needed my help. It was the end of February. Tensions between Israel and Iran were escalating and prices in...

Twee as Fuck

Stephanie Burt

The music that showed me who I wanted to be, what I wanted from life, was the music that came out on Sarah Records...

City of Peace

Rebekah Diski and Khem Rogaly

The 2300 workers at the Volkswagen factory in Osnabrück, northwest Germany, have been confronted with an unexpected plan for industrial...

After the Ceasefire

Raha Nik-Andish

Last Friday afternoon, two days after the ceasefire was announced and two days before the peace talks in Islamabad failed, I went to a café. For the...

Gamer’s Dilemma

Arianne Shahvisi

The Trump administration’s levity doesn’t make the bombs any heavier. The real game is an old one, as American as stolen labour: when life gives...
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