Omar

“The death of a memory is agonizing. It's an extraction of a thread in the brain that happens slowly over time with nothing to numb the pain”
― Ream Shukairy, The Next New Syrian Girl

“Love was a choice. You had to keep choosing love. Over and over again, you had to choose to forgive and move forward and heal”
― Aamna Qureshi, When a Brown Girl Flees

“I went to the West and saw Islam but no Muslims; I returned to the East and saw Muslims but no Islam.”
― David D. Kirkpatrick, Into the Hands of the Soldiers: Freedom and Chaos in Egypt and the Middle East

“Identity was not a singular branch—it was an entire tree, with vines and leaves and branches jutting out in all directions, some blossoming and thriving while others shriveled and died.”
― Aamna Qureshi