I knew the original Monopoly game was designed by a radical Georgist, but no one told me the “Go” square went so hard

From my thrift store find of a book of Mao-era Chinese cartoons

"There is no end to the horror, no fade to black. The children here continue to age without ever growing up. The elderly speak of bread the way others speak of lost lovers." —Alaa Alqaisi for @arablit.bsky.social Read: arablit.org/2025/07/21/b...

Beneath the Howl of Hunger

“And though the world may have looked away, let this much be remembered: we named the hunger. We bore it. We endured. Let that remain.” – Alaa Alqaisi

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Drafted into the Dr Seuss mech war