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Ahmed Warshanna: Ishta

by Mike Jurkovic
April 30, 2021

Maybe it's the underlying sound of Baltimore—the cry of nurses, the sirens rushing—that leavens his tone and tenor. Maybe it's the innocent in the shadow of a world that seems like it is closing in no matter how many walls one knocks down. Perhaps in real time retrospect, it's the genre-less style of his writing or the sly, collective voices of his septet, but Ahmed Warshanna's Istha is one of those debuts where you find yourself wanting more.