Spring 2026 · Vol. I · No. 2 Rabat · Paris · London

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Essays

Long-form criticism, personal essays, and dispatches on literature & ideas.

In Robert De Niro’s The Good Shepherd (2006), a film that traces the institutional origins of American intelligence through the biography of a single composite operative…

The Last Europeans

Reading a central European novelist now.

Essays

Literature

Europe

The Central European writer who defined a continent is aging. What does his work tell us now about Europe, and about the idea of Europe itself?

Kafka in Arabic

Translation as second creation.

Essays

Translation

Literature

When Kafka’s parables appear in Arabic, they are not the same Kafka. A meditation on translation, literary ownership, and the life of texts across languages.

The Ghosts of Fez

Walking a city that remembers.

Essays

Travel

Morocco

To walk the medina of Fez is to move through layers of time. A literary walking essay on memory, urban space, and what it means to inhabit a city.

Against the Algorithm

Why we still need slow reading.

Essays

Criticism

Digital Culture

In an age of infinite scroll and algorithmic recommendation, what becomes of literary attention? A meditation on reading, time, and the future of criticism.

The Returning Tide

On rereading a writer once devoured in youth at forty.

Essays

Literature

Morocco

What does it mean to encounter a writer you loved in youth when the world has changed, and you with it? A meditation on literary memory and the Moroccan literary imagination.