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"In the afternoons, me, Hashoush, and the other Arab children of the village went near Hashoush’s home and played soccer on a dry, vacant field."
From "The Desert," a devastating story about a young Kurdish boy, by Dr. Farhad Pirbal, translated into English for the first time by Basir Borhani. The original illustration is by Souran Kurdpour. New today at Scoundrel Time literary journal.

https://scoundreltime.com/the-desert/

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