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October 2024

As I Walked Along The Beach Series | By Noir Barakat You ask me what life is like here now and I don't know what to tell you except that       today I taught my son how to make za'atar toast, not as some sweet                      passing down of the sacred - I'm just sick of doing it for him. I wonder when       I can stop doing all of this holding. Crates of soil and tenderness  and there is only before and after. On the metro, I sat elbow-to-elbow with new       wanting. She

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As I Walked Along The Beach Series | By Noir Barakat As a child of four, I found myself burdened by the adult problems of life and death, right and wrong. I, as a dreamer, living on the bare subsistence provided by a UN blue ration card, in a crowded room, on a side street in Soor, stand as a witness to Zionist inhumanity. I charge the world for its acquiescence in my destruction. - Leila Khaled before becoming the first known woman to hijack an airplane 1969     I hear the rhythmic pin-drop of muffled revenge from tunnels being dug twenty

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Rusted Radishes: Beirut Literary and Art Journal was founded in the English Department of the American University of Beirut in 2012 with the intention of creating a space for both emerging and established writers who have a connection to Lebanon.
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