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Prayer & Pretending

Essays on Life Inside Prolonged Uncertainty

By Sadia Fatimie

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Essay 0: The Landscape of Survival
This series of essays is not a war memoir; it’s not an academic study. It also isn’t a collection of personal stories. While it includes pieces of those, along with reflection, it is rooted in what we lived, witnessed, or heard...

Essay 1: Living Inside the Threat
In Kabul, winter smelled like smoke. A smell I still notice, even far from there...

Essay 2: When a Society Adapts
When danger lasts long enough, it doesn’t stay contained within individual lives...

Essay 3: the family under siege
When danger becomes the environment, it doesn’t remain outside the home...

Essay 4: the inheritance
In Afghanistan, for many people, “before the war” is not a memory...

Essay 5: the first wound
Not every wound comes with blood...​

essay 6: living on alert
​Some dangers arrive with noise...

essay 7: when presence becomes too costly
When a nervous system has spent too long...

essay 8: quiet desperation
Sometimes the wish is not to die...

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