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Abandoning the imposition of a calendar helped me understand that time isn’t real; it has no logic in the absence of hope or anticipation.
When I see women “belly dance” to music they do not understand, in clothes of a people they do not know—or worse, disdain—I feel they are colonizing me and all Arab women who are the keepers of our traditions and heritage.
Mama was pregnant with me when Israel made her a refugee for the second time.
Only, I was never acting, because even though I was getting paid, it felt like rape, my screams muffled by his hand.
They have all the power in the world, but it’s possible to have power over them. This is what you must learn.”
“Normal isn’t what other people do. You make your own normal.”
There was an immense silence just beyond the bustle of people milling about,
Israeli settlers setting fire to trees during the harvest had become so commonplace in the past ten years that international aid organizations had been established for the sole purpose of defending Palestinian farmers.
“For the ones we love, nothing is ever trouble, and everything is never enough.”
the struggle itself is not against them as a people, but against what infects them—the idea that they are a better form of human, that God prefers them, that they are inherently a superior race, and we are disposable.”
Bullets and missiles, like moths, were attracted to light.
