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  • The Man Who Yawned

    By: Abrahem Laraibi When a tired man opens his mouth, but the state puts words in it. By the third photograph, Saleh had become the leader. In the first, he stood beside the fountain with a loaf under his arm.… Continue reading

  • A Reading of ‘An Honest Thief’

    Who Gets Called a Thief? Conscience, Power, and the Limits of Redemption in An Honest Thief In Abrahem Laaraibi’s An Honest Thief (full story below), a burglar enters an apartment intending to steal, eats the family’s dinner, and returns the… Continue reading

  • An Honest Thief

    An Honest Thief by Abrahem Laaraibi An Honest Thief is a story about conscience in a world that condemns the burglar but honours the men who steal people’s future. He had come for what he could carry. The smell stopped… Continue reading

  • The West and Its Monster: The Real Clash Behind the “Clash of Civilisations”

    The West and Its Monster: The Real Clash Behind the “Clash of Civilisations” Radical Islam was not the expression of an inevitable war between cultures, but one of the most destructive afterlives of Cold War alliances, proxy wars and political… Continue reading

  • Late to Where We Belong. Book Trailer

    Late to Where We Belong. Short Stories Across Three Continents. Book Trailer Continue reading

  • A Collection Born of Lives Across Three Continents

    Late To Where We Belong: Stories That Cross Borders, and Stay With You Across three continents: North Africa, Europe, and the United States, this collection by Abrahem Laribi brings stories of ordinary people facing unexpected encounters, private losses, displacement, memory,… Continue reading

  • Summer on a Short Leash

    By: Brahim Laaraibi Summer on a Short Leash is a story about a widowed father who fights rising prices and shrinking options to give his children one more real holiday, and discovers how love, grief, and money can all pull… Continue reading

  • Not Walls, Roots: The Human Cartography of Conflict in As She Lies Beneath the Rubble

    Not Walls, Roots: The Human Cartography of Conflict in As She Lies Beneath the Rubble Mo. Sami Brahim Laaraibi’s As She Lies Beneath the Rubble is not written as a manifesto disguised as fiction. It is a literary work that… Continue reading

  • As She Lies Beneath the Rubble

    by: Brahim Laaraibi Inside a conflict fueled by a twisted script that claims the land and sacrifices its people, As She Lies Beneath the Rubble is a story about how resemblance–seen, denied, and finally faced–has turned adversaries into reflections. Samia… Continue reading

  • Dregs of a Shrine

    When a tribe’s future hangs on a shrine, one storm redraws the map. A satirical story by: Brahim Laaraibi They pulled up near the shrine of their ancestral Cheikh after an exhausting day of off-road driving. The sun dipped low,… Continue reading