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“Our civilizations do not cause us to clash. No, our clashing allows us to pretend we belong to civilizations.”
― Discontent and Its Civilizations
― Discontent and Its Civilizations
“Human beings don’t necessarily exist inside of (or correspond to) the neat racial, gendered, or national boxes into which we often unthinkingly place them.”
― Discontent and Its Civilizations
― Discontent and Its Civilizations
“Why South Asian actors could be funny or nerdy but never sexy, yet South Asian actresses had to be.”
― No Land's Man
― No Land's Man
“How odd it would be to call Homer’s Iliad or Rumi’s Masnavi “the Great Eastern Mediterranean Poem.”
― Discontent and Its Civilizations
― Discontent and Its Civilizations
“Yes, the empire is sick, and, what is worse, it is trying to become accustomed to its sores. This is the aim of my explorations: examining the traces of happiness still to be glimpsed, I gauge its short supply. If you want to know how much darkness there is around you, you must sharpen your eyes, peering at the faint lights in the distance.”
― Invisible Cities
― Invisible Cities
Ali’s 2024 Year in Books
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