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“It was like taking a hammer to the home I had built in the Arabic language word by word, over many years in Sudan and Saudi Arabia. My increasing strength in English correlated negatively with my Arabic. The more I felt at home in English, the less Arabic felt like one. So much so that learning a new language was to acquire a new wound. Multilingualism meant multi-wounding.”
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“I didn't choose for my job to be a secret, Nasnet said. It's ironic, though. Society makes it so and then they try to oust you and ostracize you for the secret they have demanded and imposed in the first place.”
― Silence Is My Mother Tongue
― Silence Is My Mother Tongue
“First we root our sensibility in the camp, and with each seed sown a bit of that fear is stripped off.”
― Silence Is My Mother Tongue
― Silence Is My Mother Tongue
“Saba? What’s going on? It’s the mother, said Saba. I wish she was more like yours. How do you know my mother would have been different? asked Zahra. She is a fighter, said Saba. All women are fighters, said Zahra. It is just that we fight different wars. My mother carrying a gun doesn’t make her stronger than your mother, who’s been fighting for you since your father left.”
― Silence Is My Mother Tongue
― Silence Is My Mother Tongue
