[image description: A graffiti wall with the words “make hummus, not walls” painted on it.]

I don’t really consider what I do on this blog to be formal literary criticism but I guess that’s essentially what reviewing books is. After writing my senior thesis for my English literature degree, I got burned out on formal literary criticism where I had to cite academic sources, so I stepped away from that…

Until recently. I got the urge to write about speculative fiction as a genre that’s growing in popularity for Palestinian writers and why that is. The Institute for Palestine Studies published it on their blog and renewed my dormant love of literary criticism. (Which sounds more stuffy than it is. I make it fun!)

Give my piece “Reimagining the Homeland Through Speculative Fiction” a read and let me know what you think!