May 2012
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Tales of the Phoenix City - Chapter 12
The sun shone a little too brightly, the noises outside were a little too shrill. She closed the shutters and went back to the uneasy sleep that had been hers for the past week.
The damp sheets were clinging to her body, draped around her like a shroud. Very still, she just lied there on her white wrought iron bed, trying to control her breathing and follow her racing thoughts.
It started off with...
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Yours
The tension, the frantic phone calls to make sure your loved ones are safe, the sleepless nights, the apnea feeling of barely being able to breathe, the staying up late for no obvious reason other than the fact that your mind is resisting sleep, the liquid air filled with the stillness of death, the outbursts of violence, the constant news, the stretched nerves and hysterical laughs, the...
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Move Over! We Don't Need Your Feminism Now!
Amidst the tension and clashes recently happening in Lebanon, I got to thinking about a million and one things, like, why do I feel so helpless? What is it that I can do? What is it that I’m willing to do?
A thought crossed my mind, among the chaos of these never ending questionings: now is the time when our detractors will enter the scene, soberly telling feminists that “now is not the...
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This Morning, I woke up in Lebanon
“We Will Never Learn” - Picture by @Z_iad of the devastation caused by this morning clashes. No amount of words can speak more loudly.
I woke up this morning cursing. Tfeh! Wou Tfeh! Shi be arref!
I woke up this morning in Lebanon.
When my friend asked me how come I could stuff my face with jelly beans while the country was burning, and what I was on, I soberly answered,...
Tales of the Phoenix City, or Beirut and Other...
Tales of the Phoenix City - Chapter IA great admirer of the Tales of the City from American author Armistead Maupin, I love the serialized version the books were initially pu…Share on FacebookShare on TwitterShare on Google+Share on LinkedinShare by emailmyrrhandmint0
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comments Tales of the Phoenix City - Chapter 2This was turning to be a most unpleasant day. First the order of...
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Tales of the Phoenix City, Chapter 11
Airport halls are all the same. Rows of humans treated like cattle, trying to bear the excruciating tedium that is waiting in line for an hour behind families of screaming children, haggard travelers harassed from waking up at the break of dawn to catch a flight schedule at an ungodly hour, excitement and laughters, a condensed sample of humanity stocked up under the same roof while waiting to be...
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Hear us!
Hear us! Hear us! Hear the uproar of our silence, the 2000 banshee screams of our sealed mouths!
Feel us! Feel us! Feel the strength of our empty stomachs, the blade of our emaciated figures rip through the guilty bubble of your indifference, and neglect and ignorance.
If our destiny is submission, oppression, humiliation and injustice, then we choose death over that sliver of a life. We close...
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On Speaking Arabic and Other Identity Stories
So where do you come from? is a question I have heard more than I care to mention. Attending school in France, my hair intrigued people, crossing the borders between France and Switzerland, my name on a French passport intrigued people, at university, I’ve been told it was my nose (true story) that intrigued people, or one of them at any rate, probably not the most brilliant specimen of...
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Plastic Capitalist
Today, I was attending a Meeting on women’s leadership: men in suit moderators, outdated data, lack of content. The meeting was supposedly women’s leadership, yet the was not discussed and rather, the whole thing looked more like a company’s team building retreat, with moderators apparently on a mission to complete their template.
When my colleagues and I raised the issues, we...
