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Lamiya
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As happened with so many Arabs and Muslims in this country, neighbors and co-workers shunned me. We were proxies for the perpetrators.
“carry yourself with the confidence of a mediocre white man”
― The Love Hypothesis
― The Love Hypothesis
“that is what migrations and relocations do to us: when you leave your home for unknown shores, you don’t simply carry on as before; a part of you dies inside so that another part can start all over again.”
― The Island of Missing Trees
― The Island of Missing Trees
“You don't share a language, you think, and then you realise, grief is a language. We understand each other, people with troubled pasts.”
― The Island of Missing Trees
― The Island of Missing Trees
“To immigrants and exiles everywhere,
the uprooted, the re-rooted, the rootless,
And to the trees we left behind,
rooted in our memories ...”
― The Island of Missing Trees
the uprooted, the re-rooted, the rootless,
And to the trees we left behind,
rooted in our memories ...”
― The Island of Missing Trees
“A map is a two-dimensional representation with arbitrary symbols and incised lines that decide who is to be our enemy and who is to be our friend, who deserves our love and who deserves our hatred and who, our sheer indifference. Cartography is another name for stories told by winners. For stories told by those who have lost, there isn’t one.”
― The Island of Missing Trees
― The Island of Missing Trees
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Lamiya’s 2025 Year in Books
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