The Semblable Seema Atalla is marked by all the

is marked by all the restless energy

The narrator in Taleb Alrefai’s novel Samar’s Words is a young Kuwaiti woman

­— Robin Richardson

/ Kept the folded grave clothes where thy body lay"

Lebanon (Jad El Hage) and Egypt (Nael El Toukhy)

The Semblable Seema Atalla is marked by all theSpanish poet and philosopher Chantal Maillard asks whether a world without violence is possible. Beginning with the tale of Nietzsches embrace of the Turin horse, and engaging with thinkers from Confucius to Derrida to Sontag, Maillard reflects on how the concept of the semblable (ones other, neighbor, peer, fellow) justifies defensive foreign and domestic policy as well as state sanctioned global violence. Can we broaden our frameworks of belonging