In Arabic, “wholeness” translates in a word that lifts when you say it rather than falling in your chest like in English.
Reconstructing Meaning
Even the birds in Gaza have wings but do not migrate - Photo Hla.bashbash, CC BY 4.0 creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0
Carrying the Mantle of Peace
Bil'in demonstration against the Apartheid Wall, 2005 (Mahmoud Burnat, CC BY-SA 3.0)
It was Nelson Mandela who told our leadership that the hardest negotiations are sometimes with your own people and how crucial it is to maintain unity.
How are we affected as we witness the savagery, the carnage, this unbearable, ceaseless attack on an already deeply traumatized people?
We can’t understand each other’s words—I am a stranger she wants to welcome
into her wavering world...
This is an auto-fictional story. It is not romantic. No palatable packaging. Just a complex series of nuanced, semi-fictional, real and raw events.
When we're all in bunkers on Proxima Centauri b, who’s to say we won't destroy those oceans...?
That the burden of peace should lie with the occupied rather than the occupier is one of the great and absurd myths of the colonial age.
My fragile sense of peace was collapsing.
a path of olive trees filled with booming laughter now whispers beneath a barrage of bombs.
Trans people are divine beings. Do not forget that.
