Video essays in Arabic on philosophy, the books worth arguing with, and Amazigh identity. A new one every few days.
In Arabic, straight from the YouTube channel. Press play to watch here.
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Literature
Awal, the word. Tirra, writing. Tilelli, freedom.
The subjects of the videos, written out in English.
Bells, rows, age groups and one right answer. The school most of us attended was designed for another century. What should it teach when answers are cheap?
Mohamed Choukri learned to read at twenty and wrote the most honest book about poverty in modern Moroccan literature. It was banned for almost twenty years.
A name is a small flag a family raises over a child. When our own names begin to feel old-fashioned, it is worth asking who decided what sounds modern.
Hemingway’s old fisherman comes home with nothing but a skeleton. Seventy years on, The Old Man and the Sea still asks what losing actually means.
Meaning, happiness, despair and the second birth of the self, read through Jung and through the questions school never asked.
The Old Man and the Sea, For Bread Alone, The Undiscovered Self, and what they still ask of us today.
Why our grandparents’ names now sound old, and how an Amazigh wrote the first novel 1,900 years ago.
A question worth sitting with, and what I’m reading. No tracking pixels, no growth hacks.
