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Maybe that’s what people saw, because dancing is the nearest I’ve ever come to true faith.
“Woman, you better put your hands on your head when you talk about Palestine, or I’ll put my shoe in your mouth,”
The stars were thick in the sky, a web of eternity.
her anguished life in a world that could not spare a space for her.
They came for solidarity, curiosity, to bear witness, and because they would want people to show up when their time came.
“Only Arab-killers are Israeli heroes,”
To act is to be committed, and to be committed is to be in danger.”
I don’t have sufficient words to explain how thoroughly and exquisitely I unraveled in love.
God bless the resistance. God protect them. Allahu akbar.” God is bigger.
I thought I would never see Um Buraq again. But here we are, the frayed strings of our lives closing a circle.
I feel the loss of what we never had, and it feels good to know that my heart stirs.
Her lips slowly stretch and out comes that massive laughter. It is the only part of her that has not been diminished.
