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One week before the annual commemoration of the Ezidi Genocide, Young Lions of the Caliphate: A Stolen Childhood documents how ISIS abducted, forcibly converted and militarised Ezidi boys. Yet its value is…
Fyodor Dostoevsky's Notes from Underground remains one of literature's most profound psychological novels. Exploring free will, self-awareness, alienation and the darker side of human nature, the book continues to challenge readers with…
Osamu Dazai’s Schoolgirl follows the restless inner voice of a teenage girl as she moves through an ordinary day filled with grief, insecurity, ambition and questions about freedom. Through her rapidly changing thoughts, the…
Published shortly before Sylvia Plath’s death, The Bell Jar follows Esther Greenwood as ambition, opportunity and social pressure give way to depression and psychological confinement. Through its haunting fig-tree metaphor and Esther’s fear of…
Franz Kafka’s The Metamorphosis begins with a man waking to find himself transformed into an insect, but its real subject is what follows: isolation, rejection and the collapse of family love when a person…
In this personal review of Nadia Murad’s The Last Girl, Jumana Omar reflects on the memoir as both the testimony of one survivor and the story of a people subjected to genocide.…
A moving review of The Kite Runner by Khaled Hosseini, exploring friendship, betrayal, guilt, loyalty, and the possibility of becoming a better person after painful mistakes.
Tuesdays with Morrie by Mitch Albom is a heartfelt exploration of life, love, and death, based on the author’s real relationship with his college professor, Morrie Schwartz. Through weekly Tuesday meetings, Morrie…
In the Midnight Library, Nora Seed explores the lives she might have lived, only to discover that happiness isn’t found in perfection—it’s found in the choices we make today.
In The Handmaid’s Tale, Margaret Atwood imagines a society where women are stripped of rights and autonomy—a fiction that echoes the real suffering of many Ezidi women. Forced to lose their identities,…
