Sohair E.

“Mimesis

My daughter

wouldn’t hurt a spider

That had nested
Between her bicycle handles
For two weeks
She waited
Until it left of its own accord

If you tear down the web I said
It will simply know
This isn’t a place to call home
And you’d get to go biking

She said that’s how others
Become refugees isn’t it?”
― Fady Joudah

“Traveling—it leaves you speechless, then turns you into a storyteller.”
― Ibn Battuta, The Travels of Ibn Battutah

“As for the heart
It needs a beginning
The narrative
Burden of events”
― Fady Joudah

“traveling - it gives you home in thousand strange places, then leaves you a stranger in your own land.”
― Ibn Batuta