Category: by Luna Holden

• Lies and Disease: how colonialism distorts identity in al-Ṭayyib Ṣāliḥ’s ‘Season of Migration to the North’ 

  15–23 minutes

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  September 22, 2025

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  by Luna Holden, Michaelmas 2025

  “يا للغرابة. يا للسخرية. الإنسان لمجرد أنه خلق عند خط الاستواء، بعض المجانين يعتبرونه عبدا وبعضهم يعتبرونه إلها.” “How strange! How ironic! Just because a man has been created on the Equator some mad people regard him as a slave, others as a god. Where lies the mean? Where the middle way?”  This is the…