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… boy plays in an abandoned boat in what used to be the Aralsk Harbor. Brothers look out the train window at what used … been forbidden to pray. Mira’s reasons, however, were more complex; she hoped to one day adorn herself in hijab when … marriage town, there is something about Aralsk that has died. It is a beach town with no sea, a surreal endless …

… the bulbous nose—with a self-deprecating anecdote for his audience. Thanks to the fairy tales his own mother had read to … Austria, making it impossible to verify. However, it was completely plausible that a scholar of this stature would be … their death.” As his former student Ronald Angres astutely points out: “Structurally speaking, his implied attack on …

… degree for the family’s child or children. The cost has become as necessary as the cost of a car, and for a similar … was miraculous. It was too late for my father, who had died in 1937. Everyone knew it was ghoulish to delight in … industry, the more it dominated education, from the viewpoints of both teachers and students. Teachers could not …

… the footsteps, bouncing balls, and carts from the nearby commercial street—the sound emerges: a high-pitched murmur, … most first-time visitors to the medina assume that the medieval urban nucleus expanded in a haphazard fashion. In … houses are owned primarily by foreigners, and laid-back Chefchaouen, the marijuana and backpacker capital of the Rif. …

… flock of gulls. Lately, I’ve been thinking about how we come to love an unlikely place, the way time and attention not only reveal beauty but also grant a sense of belonging, the feeling of being … (In my notes I’ve written, “where old ships go to die.”) So this is what I’ve got. A tally of things made and …