Meg

“As I write this, a ceasefire has still not been called. I wonder what reality you now live in. From the point in time at which you read this, what do you say of the moment I am in? How large is the gulf between us?”
― Isabella Hammad, Recognizing the Stranger: On Palestine and Narrative

“I try to breathe,
but as I inhale,
the light screams,
the sea roars,
and the world around me threatens to collapse.
I run--
above water, below water
chasing shadows that twist and disappear.
A colossal hand flips me over,
tossing me left, then right,
spinning me endlessly in this vast, burning pan.”
― Fatima Hassouna

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

“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