Status Updates From A Return to Self: Excursion...

No offense, Taseer, but I don't understand your obsession with how old everyone is.

It came after the book burnings, the forced conversions, the demands upon a people that they erase every aspect of their identity only to find their tormenters questing after further proof of their sincerity, almost as if the very same people who had created this world of shadows were now afraid of them.

"It was full of harsh," he said of his fifty-four days in Assad's prison, where he had been sent for participating in the demonstrations that followed the Arab Spring. "These are not my real teeth. I lost my hair. I lost my mind."