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Hijab
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In vacuum,” he said evenly, “anything loose becomes hazard.”
“It is not loose,” Shirin replied without looking up.
Sergei hesitated. His English was good. Cautius. “I mean no disrespect. But after revolution… after blood… I thought perhaps…” He gestured vaguely toward her head. “This would be… gone.”
... “You thought,” she said carefully, “we rebelled against God?”
Sergei frowned. “You rebelled against a regime that used God.”
“Yes,” she said. “Exactly.”
A quiet settled over the chamber.
Shiri
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― Maradok
― Maradok
“
What do you see when you think of me,
A figure cloaked in mystery
With eyes downcast and hair covered,
An oppressed woman yet to be discovered?
Do you see backward nations and swirling sand,
Humpbacked camels and the domineering man?
Whirling veils and terrorists
Or maybe fanatic fundamentalists?
Do you see scorn and hatred locked
Within my eyes and soul,
Or perhaps a profound ignorance of all the world as a whole?
Yet . . .
You fail to see
The dignified persona
Of a woman wrapped in maturity.
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― Ayesha at Last
― Ayesha at Last
