
Jamil Jan Kochai
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Story Collection The Haunting of Hajji Hotak @VikingBooks - Aspen Lit Award Winner - National Book Award for Fiction Finalist - Stories @NYerFiction
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The The New York Times atrocity propaganda piece “Screams Without Words” completely fell apart as cases and details were found to have been fabricated but they never issued a retraction or correction. Corrections are reserved for stories about a sick child who was starved to death.




"On March 25, PEN America fired me for living up to their mission" writes Kori Davis on his termination from PEN America after he shared articles critical of Zionism to the internal listserv. Davis now shares how the free speech organization betrays their mission and employees.

Can anyone, *anyone* at the The New York Times explain to me why this hasn’t merited coverage? Is the testimony of Israel’s defense minister on Oct 7 and a confirming investigation by Israel’s paper of record not enough to earn it 1 brief article amid the deluge of campus protest pieces?

In solidarity with Haya Adam from soasliberatedzone, I promised I would 🔥 my Masters certificate from SOAS University of London if she was expelled. They have chosen to unfairly punish her, so I don’t want to be associated with a uni that markets decoloniality while punishing those who practice it.



This is my will and my final message. If these words reach you, know that Israel has succeeded in killing me and silencing my voice. First, peace be upon you and Allah’s mercy and blessings. Allah knows I gave every effort and all my strength to be a support and a voice for my



My new story “An Open Heart” is out in the New Yorker Fiction flash fiction series. It’s a long, strange sentence with stories within stories and a MySpace reference.

"The characters [in The Fort Bragg Cartel] are middle-class American men, often fathers and usually white, massacring families while high on drugs they bought with money they stole while defending a regime of pedophile warlords." -- Grayson Scott for The Baffler




“I've never in my 37 years experienced the amount of hatred, racism, and bigotry than my few days in captivity over there in Israel.” Chris Smalls tells Prem Thakker about the racism he experienced after getting arrested by the Israel while trying to deliver aid to Palestinians.

CajunExile I stand by this comment 100% and only deleted the thread because I don’t like you blue check losers cluttering up my TL where I’m trying to promote my best selling book. I support Somali self determination and reject the reductive “pirate” label🖕