Meg

“I've forgotten how to breathe with my lungs
I've forgotten speech
I'm scared for my language
Leave the rest and just bring back my language!”
― Mahmoud Darwish, Mural

“We emerged from the scream,
we lived within it for a thousand years,
and we didn't ask from which throat we spilled.
Suddenly, everything went silent,
and screamers no longer had a voice.
It is said in lore that an epic has melted our traces.”
― Hashim Shalula

“Who am I to defy nothingness? who am I? who am?”
― Mahmoud Darwish

“It is a novel horror in human history to watch a genocidal war on our phones. For men, women, and children, scholars, artists, and journalists to live-tweet the moments before they are killed.”
― Isabella Hammad, Recognizing the Stranger: On Palestine and Narrative