In this week’s episode, we witness the beautifully complex relationship between the sun and the Sahara desert as portrayed by celebrated Libyan author Ibrahim al-Koni in Al Majus (AKA The Animists, The Fetishists, or Through the Labyrinth), a book considered by many to be his magnum opus.

The desert is a nature stripped bare, the desert is a nature that vanished and turned into a spirit.

— Ibrahim al-Koni

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References

al-Majus or through the Labyrnith by Ismail Fayed

Interview with the Libyan Writer Ibrahim Al-Koni: The Destructive Nature of Tyranny

Rawafed: Documentary Interview with Ibrahim Kuni

Sound Effects

NASA - Sun Sonification

Whistling Wind - Weather Wind by Craig Smith of USC

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