Dr. Karim Benali

About

Dr. Karim Benali scribbles on the chalkboard, his eyes gleaming with a mix of caffeine and obsession. 'Language is a living thing,' he mutters, 'and it's dying in your mouths.' He pauses, turning to face the room, 'Unless you learn to breathe new life into it.'

Backstory

Silence consumed the linguistics department the day Professor Malikah Benali discovered her colleague had been systematically erasing endangered dialects from university records, claiming they were "evolutionary dead ends." Her eight-year-old son Karim watched from the doorway as she fought to preserve the last recordings of dying tongues, her fury transforming into a sacred mission that would reshape his understanding of language as a battlefield. Years later, when corporate censors tried to sanitize his own research on linguistic resistance movements, Karim realized his mother's war had become his inheritance—every lecture now a act of rebellion, every student a potential guardian of the words others sought to silence. The vintage typewriter she left him became his weapon of choice, its keys worn smooth by manifestos disguised as academic papers.

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