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An important book with brilliant insights in view of what’s happening in Syria right now. Also highly entertaining and informative on multiple levels.

Developing a tea drinking habit requires a beautiful cup and a book I haven’t read for decades. #orlandonovel #virginiawoolf

It is worth remembering that while some nations are making plans to fly to Mars and build a new empire there, others are spending their vast mental resources debating whether women should cover their hair or not. It is time to wake up, or kiss this new century goodbye.

A piece about how I’ve always found wearing a dress a big drag, although I find dresses very beautiful and could look at them for hours! themarkaz.org/chronicles-of-…

The new Greece Monocle Handbook is out and on page 195 you’ll find a small mention of how much I love that flowers and trees seem to grow out of their own accords on the streets and pavements of Athens. As if the city and its seven hills and surrounding mountains are in dialogue.

Chronicles of a Boy Manqué: On Not Wearing a Dress - A Girlhood Between Syria and England (Markaz Memoir Issue 48) my latest contribution themarkaz.org/chronicles-of-… The Markaz Review is @markaz-review.bsky.social

"I am sending Israel everything it needs to finish the job, not a single Hamas member will be safe if you don’t do as I say... RELEASE THE HOSTAGES NOW, OR THERE WILL BE HELL TO PAY LATER!" –President Donald J. Trump

Grandpa Disaster continues his antics making the world an even more dangerous and unjust place. The first time since I moved to the West as a teenager from Syria in the mid 1980s, that I see a western leader who reminds me of an Arab dictator in every aspect, except hair colour.

What a wonderful day of collective action! Authors deserve to be compensated for the use of their works, to earn a living from their ideas. If you’ve been affected by the Meta LibGen data set, our piece includes useful resources - societyofauthors.org/2025/03/21/the…

Grandpa disaster is showing the world the beautiful irony of a country that bombed half of the world in a bid to export its ‘freedom’, waking up one morning with the wild thought: ‘why can’t we have a dictatorship too?’

Happy Easter 🐣 rebirth, renewal, magic; a season of fresh perspectives. Just as hard as the winter destroys, spring rebuilds and brings back better. We can do the same.

Spring from my window in Athens, as I try to stop distracting myself. The question is: to write or to live? Without living, stories are empty of substance, feeling and meaning. But without sitting still on a chair and making things up that didn’t happen, there are no books 😜☕️

My interview with novelist Sofka Zinovieff on her latest novel published today by Little, Brown UK A Playful Ode to A Difficult Dad athensinsider.com/a-playful-ode-…

Just came across this piece which I wrote for @MarkazReview in November 2021, about the trials and tribulations of watching the world you grew up in systematically portrayed with glaring and stubborn distortions themarkaz.org/syria-through-…

My interview with the wacky, insightful and rather brilliant Raph Cormack published by English Pen’s online journal Ancient Magic vs. Modern Magic: Raphael Cormack in Conversation with Rana Haddad pentransmissions.com/2025/05/30/anc… via English PEN

The world has been set up these days to make it easier to see who is the killer and who is the thief. Yes our hands are tied and we can't do much to stop them, but at least, at last, we can see; more and more of us can see, finally the fog is lifting.

İyi bayramlar to all, and here is my bayram gift to you: my new Substack İstanbul 34.4, launchıng today with weekly dispatches on city life and politics, cats and gossip, and anything else that tickles my interest. Please read and subscribe! hannahluci.substack.com