The Postmuslim

Nov 27, 2023 | therakha.substack.com | Youssef Rakha

Dear friends,After writing this personal obituary of Khaled Khalifa—which The Markaz Review were kind enough to publish for his arba’een—events in Palestine, or rather the civilized world’s response to events in Palestine, upstaged practically everything in my life. The horror forced me back into a state of engagement I hadn’t really experienced since the Arab Spring.

Oct 19, 2023 | therakha.substack.com | Youssef Rakha

If I don’t write now I never will. Since I published this Arabic response to the horror, people—Arabs—have argued with my decision not to address the West. They tell me it is necessary to talk to those worth talking to. They tell me they want to yell and growl and weep in English, and that I should bear witness to the sounds they make while the ghosts of murdered children from all over Gaza run to the Egyptian border.