Tag: Non-Fiction
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Book Review: Tasting The Sky: A Palestinian Childhood
Imagine you are three and half years old, a war has just started, your family is about to flee and you are unable to tie up the one shoe you had on. In the split of a second, everyone you’ve known your entire life has disappeared – gone. All while the Israeli enemy is spreading…
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العفن الذهبي
إلى جدي بدري مكارم… حضورك هديّة آخر أيّام العصر الذهبي… ’٧٥ ،كانت بيروت بعدها عم تتلألأ ،غافلة عن روابط ما كانت شايفتها بعد .وعن سطور بعد ما انكتبت ،الشوارع مليانة .والناس بعدها بتحكي بالقروش ،بعدن عايشين وقتن عمهلهن …كأنّو الوقت مارق من حدّن .من دون أيّ عجلة ،مدينة إلها نكهة …بس كانت عم تغلي وناطرة…
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Book Review: The Kite Runner
“The man who has a conscience suffers while acknowledging his sin. That is his punishment.” Published in 2003, The Kite Runner is Khaled Hosseini’s debut novel and masterpiece. The book has sold millions of copies worldwide, inspired several adaptations, and won various awards, including the Alex Award, the Borders Original Voices Award, and the Outstanding…
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But What If I Don’t Want To Be a Content Creator?
When I first joined social media, it didn’t look like what it does today. To create a Facebook account, I had to lie and say I was born in 1980-something. I was still in school, and we used to write inside jokes and birthday greetings on each other’s ‘walls.’ We used to update our ‘status’…
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Book Review: A Thousand Splendid Suns
A few weeks ago, the Taliban issued a law in Afghanistan permitting men to beat their women and children, provided they do not leave any fractures or open wounds. With this law, domestic violence is treated as a matter of discretion rather than a criminal offense, and women and children continue to suffer under the…
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Book Review: Utopia
As the world we live in crumbles in anticipation of a third World War, unprecedented economic deterioration, and multiple genocides, the media shows a different reality – from Red Carpet events to celebrity culture. Meanwhile, the real issues at stake spiral into endless doomscrolling. The reality we live in today echoes Suzanne Collins’ “The Hunger…
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سأقتلع عيني يا أبي
لقد فَقَدَتْ عيناي القدرة على التأثر والانفعال. صارت تمر بأحداث ومشاهدات، فيها ما فيها من القتل والعنف والدم والسلخ والجلد والتقطيع والتقطيب، ورغم ذلك، لا تومئ فيها ولا تتأثر ولا يرف لها جفن. لقد ظن من حولي أنني من النوع المقدام، فردوا ذلك إلى قيم الشجاعة وقوة القلب، وتهامسوا عني أن ذاك ”قلبه ميت”، وغيرهم…
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Relax Your Mind:180 Seconds of Restless Thoughts
“Inhale, lift your arms up. Exhale, drop your hands to the floor. Inhale, right leg back. Drop the knee. Hold.” When I hear her say the movements, they sound easy enough. But there’s a constant humming in my ear, the echo of a voice in my head. “Hold? You can’t hold any longer. Your legs…
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Book Review: Cockroach
When I first started reading Rawi Hage’s Cockroach, I was not immediately hooked. Unfamiliar with his writing style, I had picked up the book because I recognized the name. A follow-up to his acclaimed De Niro’s Game, Cockroach explores mental illness, immigration and an immigrant’s struggle for survival. The pacing of the book was not…
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Ten Insights On Happiness
1. Live close to your truth, even when it’s inconvenient.Pretending will keep you accepted, but never happy. 2. Protect your peace like sacred fire.Not everyone deserves access to your silence, your time, or your nervous system. 3. Feel everything fully.Happiness doesn’t come from avoiding pain, but from being real enough to let it move through…