Crimes Against Language
April 11, 2024
In genocide, all language fails.
Sarah Aziza
Sarah Aziza is a writer who splits her time between New York City and the Middle East. Her work has appeared in the New York Times, The New Yorker, the Washington Post, Harper’s, and The Intercept, among other publications. Her first book, a hybrid work exploring the intertwined legacies of diaspora, colonialism, and the American dream, will be published by Catapult.
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To another’s eye, the transformation of this land might be viewed as “progress.”
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Is there room for handbags in an obituary?
The Age of Innocence
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An Arab American upbringing in the shadow of 9/11.
All Quiet on the Eastern Front
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Joe Biden follows Trump’s footsteps in Saudi Arabia.
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I arrived in Saudi Arabia twenty years ago, as a young girl. Even now, the country exists in my mind most vividly in those early impressions: the stark lines of skyscrapers beneath a blinding sun, the blare of car-jammed roads hemmed in by vacant sidewalks, the menace of armored ...