After waiting for the last 35 years to be recognised Israel was the first one to do it and that's something I and millions of the forgetting and ignored Somalilander are greatful for and will never forget it.
We are delighted to announce that the winner of the Warwick Prize for Women in Translation 2025 is ‘And the Walls Became the World All Around’ by Johanna Ekström and Sigrid Rausing, translated from Swedish (Sweden) by Sigrid Rausing and published by
@grantabooks.bsky.social !
Its amazing how much my taste in books have changed from last year but after few months of being too busy to read am back and this week will be reading about Arman Hammer biography by Steve Weinberg.
Next up:
sunny hands
Nâzim Hikmet, ‘My darling’, tr Richard McKane
Snap from the neighbourhood
Proust in Venice, 1900
Waiting for rain
"…and Magda Goebbels made a great strudel.”
this is, hands down, the best video I've seen on men's influencer content and it's not close either
Suddenly I began to find a strange meaning in old fairy tales; woods, rivers, mountains, became living beings; mysterious life filled the night…
~Ouspensky
My weekend book will try to tell what it is like to have nightmares when you are living under dictatorship.
The Third Reich of Dreams
The Nightmares of a Nation.
By Charlotte Brandt and translated by Damion Searls
‘Pomegranate Seeds’ by Edith Wharton (from the collection Ghosts)#ShortStorySeptember
This was my first encounter with Edith Wharton’s short stories, and while I found most of the stories in the collection Ghosts to be solid, for me ‘Pomegranate Seed’ (1931) was th…
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If life is ephemeral, the fact of having lived a life which is ephemeral is an eternal fact.
~Vladimir Jankélévitch
First book to read in September with my 🐪 Milk
Our new baby Camel
Back to photography, i guess
"Sunday was the day that rebelled against him" - Ross Benjamin great here on Kafka's Sundays
open.substack.com/pub/franzjou...
Kafka’s Sundays
An Exchange with Judith Shulevitz
When I met my cows for the first time back in 2022
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tectonic plates before an earthquake:
Tonight's reading
So far,
#WITMonth is going great. I finished two intense, excellent books - NOTHING GROWS BY MOONLIGHT and KILLING STELLA - and starting my third book today, Han Kang's WE DO NOT PART. I have high hopes for this one!
Can't hide how excited and happy I am to see my country finally being recognised.
Somaliland recognition is a dream that finally becomes reality.
The photojournalist Sebastião Salgado documented some of the greatest human horrors of the past century, but he said, “I never. . . photograph the misery.”
Sebastião Salgado’s View of Humanity
The photojournalist documented some of the greatest human horrors of the past century, but he said, “I never, I never, photograph the misery.”
This
It's been almost a year since I last logged in Twitter, now called X, and though I was a heavy active user of it, I have mixed feelings towards it.
Missing all the friends and chaos I made in there but also after touching some grass am relieved to be not there anymore.
To live in interesting times
Tonight's reading 📚
Ganbarei workshops on dying by Katarzyna Boni
translated from Polish by Mark Ordon.
Neighbours saying Hi
When a clown moves into a palace, he doesn't become a king, the palace becomes a circus. -Turkish proverb
Back to photography 📸
The America I imagined to know is dead.
Now I have to understand the new America.
Eid Mubarek everyone
Friday!! (It's not too late to register)
For no reason, my thoughts stopped on that period when the obsession with emigration had taken over my life, my dreams, my desires, my very vision of the future.
My only desire then was to give myself a second chance. Leave. Go anywhere but here. Get far away from this life. Leave, live my dreams.
Final book to read in March
So Distant From My Life by Monique Ilboudo translated from French by Yarri Kamaara and published by Tilted Axis press
Final book to read in March
So Distant From My Life by Monique Ilboudo translated from French by Yarri Kamaara and published by Tilted Axis press
"It's terrible to live in a world where people just tell lies to each other. How can someone who's a scoundrel and a traitor be allowed to make decisions for a whole country?"
- Sjowall & Wahloo, The Terrorists.
ICYMI: Friday, March 28, 6-8:30pm at the Wende Museum. Event is free (register below); also a fundraiser for UkraineTrustChain
www.ukrainetrustchain.org
We'll be reading from our work about Jewishness, immigration, war, and more, including Alla Pugacheva.
www.eventbrite.com/e/born-in-th...Born in the USSR: Diaspora Writers Against War
Soviet-born writers weave together an intricate story of identity, memory, cultural intersections, immigration and war.
