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November 2023

Amidst the constellation of responses to the October events, I read Judith Butler's article "The Compass of Mourning." Charting mourning as a compass, Butler describes its transformative potential to release Palestinians and Israelis from recursive, cyclical, and unproductive violence. In the article, Butler engages in a dual act of condemnation and contextualization, not settling for what she posits as a singular narrative of blame. Butler insists on an ethics of accountability that transcends unidirectional fault-refusing, for instance, the assertion by Harvard's Students for Justice in Palestine that the moral onus of the October violence rests on the shoulders of Israel

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Three Children Balancing on a Total Barrel | By Abdul Rahman Katanani Tessellate   My father tells a story about the boy who drowned.   Mud-licked dam: testament to time   unfulfilled. My father tells a story about the moon   unfulfilled. Going away and not coming back   the same way twice. He has nothing to say about   starving. Nothing about the dirt he drank, the bombs he   heard. He is a collection of stories   he'll never tell. In the moonlight, he looks like a vanishing horse.   In the daylight: a dog.   He has nothing to say about the question he wants to ask.   The same one I'll ask of the future.   About being

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Rusted Radishes: Beirut Literary and Art Journal was founded in the English Department of the American University of Beirut in 2012 with the intention of creating a space for both emerging and established writers who have a connection to Lebanon.
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