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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 abandonment. Article by: Abrahem Laaraibi When a former American soldier commits a violent crime, public…
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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 on the same tight lead Tim has promised them a week away, once the kind…
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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 approaches the Israeli-Palestinian conflict through the intimate scale of ordinary life, showing how history enters…
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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 lies pinned beneath a slab of concrete, the weight grinding into her ribs, squeezing every…
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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, amber bleeding into the horizon as they walked the dusty path. Leather sandals crunched over…
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Laaraibi’s “The Fortune of Votes”: Corruption, Complicity, and the Soul on the Ballot.
Laaraibi’s “The Fortune of Votes”: Corruption, Complicity, and the Soul on the Ballot. J.J. Richardson There is a moment near the end of Brahim Laaraibi’s “The Fortune of Votes” when Salem, freshly elected, rises before his guests to speak and finds that his voice has gone. Not hoarseness, not nerves: a dry rasp, like sand…
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The Fortune of Votes
A story about selling one’s soul for power and borrowed glory. By: Brahim Laaraibi Najla heard the keys at the door. The metallic jingling snapped through her — hope bitten by dread. She wiped her hands on her apron, tossed it onto the counter, and hurried to the hallway. When Salem entered, dust still on…