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Mona khattab @monakhattab.bsky.social · 03/08/2026

Medieval cartographers drew dragons at the edge of the unknown. It seems an appropriate place to pause. I’ll be away for a couple of weeks while the next series finds its shape. Until then, the dragon can keep watch.🐉 #Wonder #Literature #CreativeWriting #Drawing #Substack Original artwork and video

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Mona khattab @monakhattab.bsky.social · 20/07/2026

#Wonder isn’t the opposite of knowledge. It may be what makes knowledge possible. My piece on #Substack this week is on a blue flower, a goldsmith's hammer, a spinning room, and the child you were instructed to outgrow. #lotus #ancientegypt #rumi #sufism #philosophy #meaning #orientatiin #art

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Mona khattab @monakhattab.bsky.social · 13/07/2026

There are paintings we admire. And there are paintings that seem to breathe. My newest essay begins with Van Gogh’s The Starry Night and follows wonder across art, language, and myth. I’d love to hear what you think. #vanGogh #art #ancientEgypt #wonder #philosophy #paintings #mythology #culture

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Mona khattab @monakhattab.bsky.social · 11/07/2026

An excerpt from my article on #Substack on #reading and being properly oriented! Link: open.substack.com/pub/monakhat...

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Mona khattab @monakhattab.bsky.social · 06/07/2026

#AncientEgypt may have told one of the oldest stories ever written about reading badly. A prince steals the #Book of Thoth hoping for power. Instead, the book reveals who he is. My latest essay explores why reading is less about acquiring #information than becoming someone capable of carrying it.

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Mona khattab @monakhattab.bsky.social · 05/07/2026

While writing The Cup and the Flood, I kept returning to a simple image: A jug can pour endlessly. A cup can only receive so much. Perhaps wisdom has less to do with finding more information than with learning what deserves a place in the cup. (One of my sketches for the essay.) Link in 1st comment.

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Mona khattab @monakhattab.bsky.social · 26/06/2026

Sometimes we do not only miss people or places; we miss the feel of life itself: the smell of #newspapers, black ink on our hands, letters written slowly, #cassette tapes, #library cards. #Nostalgia can be grief for an older world’s textures.

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Mona khattab @monakhattab.bsky.social · 23/06/2026

What helps a person not give up completely? While writing about #Sisyphus, I found myself wondering whether #hope is less a #belief than a #habit. My first essay explores #Camus, #myth, #resilience, #faith, and the small reasons we keep going.

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The Boulder Always Rolls Back Down. We Push It Anyway.

On Sisyphus, the stubbornness of hope, and the small, embarrassing reasons we keep going.

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Mona khattab @monakhattab.bsky.social · 24/11/2024

The happy season in #Vaasa, #Finland, begins with the glow of a grand #Christmas tree, festive music in the air, and the enchanting Venetian Carousel spinning in the heart of the city. #Vasa

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