@smokelong.bsky.social XD The best magazine!!!!

Israel’s renewed deadly Gaza attacks have continued for a ninth straight day, killing dozens of Palestinians, as the US says more than 140,000 people have been displaced since last week.

Read here: aje.io/u0jdmo

27 pages. Of babies. Whose entire understanding of what Earth sounded like was bombs dropping & people screaming at the sky

BREAKING: Yuval Abraham, co-director of Oscar-winning documentary "No Other Land," says Israeli settlers beat his co-director Hamdan Ballal, injuring his head and stomach — and then Israeli soldiers invaded the ambulance he was in and seized him.

Ballal's whereabouts are now unknown.

The insane levels of Islamophobia across the world—it keeps escalating.

A very valuable document about the deeply violent human rights violations and abuses that occurred in Bangladesh last year during the protests of July and August:

www.ohchr.org/sites/defaul...

Why does my writing drastically change within the span of a few months?

Ramadan Kareem! My short story "How to Be a Good Muslim Roommate" is out now, judiciously edited by the brilliant Sierra Nevada Review.
www.sierranevadareview.com/sam-matin

Je suis déçu ... médiocres autour de moi

Why does it take so long to write, finish, and perfect something? It's a never-ending trial...

I am almost done—almost done—almost done with the last research paper of my life. Almost there, aaargh!

Why doesn't any newspaper or magazine publish my pro-Palestine (as always) op-ed?

When will Elif Batuman's The Idiot and Either/Or get turned into movies or shows so I can watch them recurrently for many, many summers and winters?

I admire the dichotomy in education highlighted by @sammatin.bsky.social in this interview. Best read alongside the story, "People of Color Monologue," which to me is a politically charged piece that suggests that with love there's hope.

tinyurl.com/yvddv6dc

So happy that my story, inspired by community resilience and the Monsoon Revolution 2024, is published on December 16, the Victory Day for Bangladesh after nine months of genocide in 1971.

Incredibly thankful to SmokeLong Quarterly for being the only magazine to publish this!