Exploring Mediterranean civilizational memory — one question at a time
Subscribe on Substack →Seven novels. Four centuries. One question. I stood in an olive grove in Cap Bon and realized I had no language for what I was standing in the middle of.
Read on SubstackMy name is the cycle made biographical. Each name is a thread into a different layer of the civilization: Tayeb the tree, Ridha contentment, Damerji the forge.
Read on SubstackThe fall of Granada as beginning, not background. What was lost was not just a kingdom but the transmission architecture itself.
Read on SubstackWhat the first five novels track: the progressive flattening of three-dimensional civilizational space into administrative subjects.
Read on SubstackThese essays explore the historical and philosophical questions behind The Trees Are Still Standing. Each essay stands alone but together they form a map of the civilization that produced — and lost — itself.
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