Reflections from Lebanese writer, researcher and podcaster Elia Ayoub. Memory, hauntings, liminality, authoritarianism, and alternative futurities. Host of The Fire These Times. Based in Sussex, England.

drawings from nightclubs and warzones

Making Real is a truth-fluid space, exploring how authenticity is constucted in marketing, politics, and pop culture. Designed to sharpen your BS filter, it challenges and repurposes the narratives that shape our zeitgeist.

I write about sinkholes.

I am Efe Levent former anthropologist turned fiction writer. These stories are a tribute to urban legends and folk stories. A simulation of living in a country where we wake up from dreams and nightmares only to find out that it's been real all along.

A writing practice focused on sound through artifacts, moments, music etc.

Hello this is Efe Levent, editor-in-chief and founder of Mangal Media. I am using this substack to share my strange alternate-history fiction all the images are generated by midjourney.

A depressed queer Arab leftist trying to figure things out.

Things falling apart.

Writing on fascism, antisemitism and Ireland