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 was killed by an RSF soldier in August 2022. The a
