Cirrus@Austlit

'If I must die, you must live to tell my story. As I write, it's hard not to think of Palestinian poet Dr Refaat Alareer and this line of his. I have been thinking a lot of him, of the Heba Abu Nadas and Roshdi Sarrajs, the creatives, the journalists, the truth-tellers; of the archives that were bombed, the universities and the libraries that were bombed, the museums and the cultural centres and the hammam-all bombed to concrete confetti. These aren't just crimes against humanity, they are crimes against history, as Ibram X Kendi writes.'  (Publication abstract)