The Semblable Seema Atalla is marked by all the

is marked by all the restless energy

realism and action

­— Robin Richardson

It is also a novel about youth and old age

The narrator in Taleb Alrefai’s novel Samar’s Words is a young Kuwaiti woman

The Semblable Seema Atalla is marked by all theSpanish poet and philosopher Chantal Maillard asks whether a world without violence is possible. Beginning with the tale of Nietzsches embrace of the Turin horse, and engaging with thinkers from Confucius to Derrida to Sontag, Maillard reflects on how the concept of the semblable (ones other, neighbor, peer, fellow) justifies defensive foreign and domestic policy as well as state sanctioned global violence. Can we broaden our frameworks of belonging