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Waiting for “amnesty”1999 The telephone rang. Thanks to the caller ID service newly introduced to Syria’s telecommunications system, we could see it was a foreign number. When I answered, I heard my aunt’s voice, panting as though she were about to have a nervous breakdown. “I read his name in the paper! I swear to God Almighty! It was written wrong, but it was his name….
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“May there be relief”: On food in Adra Women’s Prison[Editor’s note: The below article was produced as part of Al-Jumhuriya’s 2017 Fellowship for Young Writers. It was originally published in Arabic on 11 January, 2018.] It’s two o’clock in the morning, the lights are turned off, and I’ve been in a deep sleep for two hours now. Although nighttime in prison is not much different from daytime, even if it could be said to…