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شجر الزيتون
:بينما كنت عند البقّال أجول بين الرّفوف بحثًا عن طعامٍ لقطتي، دخلت امرأة – صديقةٌ للبائع – وبدأت تتمعّن في المحتويات الجديدة. وإذ لفت انتباهها…
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حبكِ هو بدايتي… ومسكُ ختامي
…في يوم ميلادكِ أعودُ إلى ضلعيَ الأول وربيعيَ الأجملِ وأبحثُ عن قصيدةٍ رأيتها في البدرِ مراراً … وصَمَتُّ عن حسنها مراراً فالكتابةُ.. ما الكتابةُ؟ …وإذ كتبتُ…
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احتمالٌ يحترق
،لستُ أبحث عن خلاصٍ فالخلاصُ فكرةٌ .اخترعها الخائفون من السقوط ،أنا ابنُ هذا القلقِ النبيل أحملُهُ كرايةً …وأمشي ،لا نحو شيءٍ .بل بعيداً عن كلِّ…
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Book Review: The Blind Owl
While existentialism emphasizes an individual’s search for meaning, absurdism acknowledges the impossibility of attaining certainty in an irrational world. Both philosophies are profoundly reflected in…
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Adnan, Unredacted: Somebody Should’ve Seen Me in the Kitchen
At 2:15 PM, I removed the extra “haha” that I had written on the work group chat. Earlier that morning, at around 10:00 AM, I…
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Searched
I searched, and searched again in your eyes; found nothing. I searched, And searched again, for the love you spoke of two days ago— found…
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Background Noise
The sound of war planes and foreign drones has become the background noise to her life. Sometimes, she doesn’t need to turn on the TV…
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XVII. The Star – Reversed
they say its healthy to be aroused by your body, but I find it bad to be aroused by it one day my…
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Lest I Forget
A shiver pulses through the ground, and the mighty oaks that line this clearing quake in response, shrugging a sudden chill that took an evening…
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Green Eyes
Green eyes where everything disappears. Inside a forest, the paths loop back. They swallow. There’s a hunger in that color— not the kind that devours…