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The January Issue

Jan 15, 2025 | guernicamag.com | Youmna Chamieh

For Guernica’s January and February 2025 issues, guest-editors Salar Abdoh, Valeria Luiselli, Heather Cleary, Nimmi Gowrinathan, Omar Hamilton, Maaza Mengiste, Kamila Shamsie, Mirza Waheed, Meena Kandasamy, Jacqueline Woodson, Jamal Mahjoub and Nathalie Handal have selected works of fiction, nonfiction and poetry from writers and thinkers in their communities whom they felt it was important to shine a light on.
The January Issue

Jan 15, 2025 | everand.com | Youmna Chamieh

Manish Jangid / Pexels For January and February 2025 issues, guest editors Salar Abdoh, Valeria Luiselli, Heather Cleary, Nimmi Gowrinathan, Omar Hamilton, Maaza Mengiste, Kamila Shamsie, Mirza Waheed, Meena Kandasamy, Jacqueline Woodson, Jamal Mahjoub, and Nathalie Handal have selected works of fiction, nonfiction, and poetry from writers and thinkers in their communities whom they felt it was important to shine a light on. We are honored and excited
Best of PIC 2024

Dec 9, 2024 | pointsincase.com | Augusta Chapman |Tod Brubaker |Lillie Franks |Youmna Chamieh

Webster's dictionary defines humor as “a normal functioning bodily semifluid or fluid,” and as editors, it has been our pleasure to fill the internet with many funny semifluids and fluids this year. We've published so many funny pieces this year, and it was a tough task to whittle down to just 15. One of the joys of being an editor is getting to read so much good and funny writing, and it was a pleasure to go back through all of 2024's semifluids and pick out a few memorable ones to highlight.
Writing to Beirut, again

Nov 1, 2024 | ft.com | Youmna Chamieh

I was once in an English composition class where someone wrote a story about a woman whose husband beat her with a dress belt, raped her...
I Am Your Body, and I’m Not Too Crazy About You Either

Sep 30, 2024 | bylinebyline.com | Youmna Chamieh

Ass, waist, breasts. After cycling through the Timeless Three, bored and cruel as a French little child-king, you tend to dawdle your way up to my face. I want you to know: What my face is to you, your connective mind is to me. Your theory that shrimps are the gnats of the ocean? That’s your split ends. That bit about your ex doing for tapered jeans what Knut Hamsen did for those Norwegian peasants? The bump on your nose.
Samer Iskandar, FT correspondent, 1967-2024

Aug 22, 2024 | ft.com | Youmna Chamieh

Samer Iskandar, a former FT correspondent, passed away on August 13, 2024 in Paris. He was 57.
Brain cancer took away his words, but not his determination to write

Feb 24, 2024 | ft.com | Youmna Chamieh

Note: Samer Iskandar, the subject of this piece and former FT correspondent, passed away in August 2024. Samer could not remember its name.
Five Turtles You Saved to Get into College and the Spine-Chilling Deaths They’ve Died Since

Feb 5, 2024 | pointsincase.com | Youmna Chamieh

1. FlippyYou first met Flippy when he was but a tiny hatchling, as far from the sea as your SAT score was from the 75th percentile. Unfortunately, Flippy died a death of indescribable horror last March when a vicious Dutch boy named Carl smashed him repeatedly against a rock. Sources confirm that you were at your sorority's Saints & Sinners party when Flippy's helpless little body took its last blow. “No, WITH ice—WITH ice,” you mouthed to the bartender as Flippy felt the light leave his eyes. 2.
The Book of Genesis, If God Was Creating a Party

May 26, 2023 | pointsincase.com | Youmna Chamieh

In the beginning, God created the guest list. Now the guest list was looking bleak as hell, Marcia the “EDM Is Noise” activist was listed next to Rick with the Skrillex tattoos, and the fear of God was hovering over the prospect of His various friend groups discovering that God's tastes, beliefs, and entire personality were completely malleable. And God said, “Let there be great music so none of them talk to each other,” and there was a DJ who worked in finance but DJed on the side.
My Day as an Intern, as Imagined by My Exceedingly Optimistic Parents

May 9, 2023 | pointsincase.com | Youmna Chamieh

I am awoken by yet another massage—Swedish, this time. Strange. Thursdays are usually shiatsu, and since my private driver has been sent before I’ve even had a chance to call my mom, this is Strike Two. 12:30 PM, reads the Faberge Egg clock the CFO gifted me for having such a good PSAT score. It’s not much of a clock. Hell of an egg, though. “That’ll be all, girl,” I say to the anonymous hands kneading the soles of my feet. “I’m an adult man,” mutters a voice. But I’m already out the door.