Writing through loss, Leena Magdi keeps her brother’s voice alive
· Cairo time
RIYADH: “Mourning Air” by Leena Magdi is an intimate meditation on grief, belonging, faith and the enduring love between siblings. Published in April 2025 by The Dreamwork Collective, it is a deep breath of a book, though perhaps more accurately, as Magdi suggests in her introduction, “a written exhale”: an attempt to release what has become too heavy to carry alone. At its center is the sudden death of the writer’s younger brother, Hamoodi, who…
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