The choice

What happens when you pause? When you are drenched in a moment, be it of grace or of hurt and pain, what happens if you can just pause it and exit for a second? What happens if you pause a moment of suffering and step out of that frame and look at yourself? What would […]

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Comfort Space

I peer out of this room, and suddenly nobody remembers my name. Suddenly four birthdays have passed since I last had a dream. Suddenly, I did not know where I had been.  Friends and family attempt to make life easier, and sometimes they do. But for the most part, things get tough, the world gets […]

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A shy eulogy

I had not thought of you or even said your name in a very long time; until today when I found out you died. I feel bad, I am hurt, and unamused by all the coverage your death is receiving. I am not accepting or giving condolences on your behalf because you are simply somebody […]

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To Friendship

Let’s take ourselves back to that freedom of a young summer so forgiving of our limitations. Let’s stay in that fast car and dream of endless music. Let this companionship rest its head because we will not let go. Let it discover you softly and lift your soul as it whispers and fixes you. Let […]

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بالعربي خلص

قررت انو اكتب بالعربي لانو شكلك ما كنت عم تفهم بالاجنبي. اذا انتا شيعي لِاجري، سني لاِجري و حتا مسيحي لاِجري؛ و كل شي بالنص لاِجري. عم جرّب خليك تعصب بما انو انتا انسان متعصب. و يمكن تكرهني كتير بس شو فرقت معي؟ هيك هيك منّك طايقني و لا طايق طايفتي ولا ديني ولا وطني […]

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The only one

The only one. The beauty and posession of it. The peace and horror interlocked into one entity. The only one and the intensity of it, the anarchy within sensing the mortality of that human. The only one, the immense make believe of it, the shattering fairytale and longing in the most desperate sense. The whole […]

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Seeking security in an unsecure world; food for thought

The article by Robert E. Williams and Dan Caldwell, “Seeking security in an unsecure world” discusses war between the reasoning behind it, the ways it is done and the morality in all those means. The article presents the idea that the just war tradition claims that killing people will lead to saving and preserving lives. […]

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