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Reading Camus at 18 and 52

  • by Cafe Dissensus Everyday
  • Posted on April 9, 2023

By Umar Timol
But at fifty-two years old, I read Camus differently. What strikes me is the absence, like a black hole that devours all matter, of the Arab, a nearly invisible character who serves as the backdrop and pretext for the existence of the colonizer.

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The Grave of Kamala Das or the defeat of Prometheus

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  • Posted on July 17, 2022July 28, 2022

By Umar Timol
During a trip to Trivandrum, India, in 2019, a city which greatly resembles Port-Louis, the capital of Mauritius, I visited her grave which is found at the Palayam Jumah Masjid, a mosque, accompanied by my Indian poet friend, Chandramohan.

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The Death of the Less-Civilised Child

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  • Posted on June 3, 2022

By Umar Timol
This dead child is a less civilized child. He is not like the other kids, the ones who are civilized. He will not make the headlines of the international press. His abusers will not be imprisoned.

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A Letter to Slaughtered Palestinian Children

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  • Posted on June 9, 2021

By Umar Timol
Every time a Palestinian child dies, he bequeaths this light to his people, which entrenches in their lands, nourishes it, and unleashes sustenance for uprising and freedom.

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Open letter to Trevor Noah

  • by Cafe Dissensus Everyday
  • Posted on May 20, 2021

By Umar Timol
I believe that the Palestinian body has become a metaphor for the bodies of the powerless all over the world. The destruction of our bodies is what is awaiting all of us, if we don’t do anything about it.

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