Farah Abdessamad

Farah Abdessamad is a French-Tunisian writer/essayist based in New York City. Her work has appeared in the TLS, Michigan Quarterly Review, South China Morning Post, and Los Angeles Review of Books (The Philosophical Salon). She's also a regular literary critic for the Asian Review of Books and she's currently completing a novel and working on a collection of essays on Tunisia and spirituality of the Ancient Near East.

(A)theologies, Archive, CultureDecember 17, 2020

Into the Darkest Moment of a Dark Year Comes the Saturnalia, a Time for Drinking, Swearing, Gambling, and the Circle of Life

By Farah Abdessamad

Christmas is nearly upon us, and for those observing this means smaller if not cancelled…

Farah Abdessamad

Into the Darkest Moment of a Dark Year Comes the Saturnalia, a Time for Drinking, Swearing, Gambling, and the Circle of Life

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