Hafs

“And if you challenged her on altering her name or questioned her
loyalty to African culture she would ask What has Africa done for me?”
― Jennifer Nansubuga Makumbi, Manchester Happened

“Out of my ignorance, I called you a homeland and I forgot homelands are taken away.”
― Mahmoud Darwish

“in Jerusalem, every footstep is a grave. /Here, every footstep is a grave, / every grandmother is a Jerusalem.”
― Mohammed El-Kurd

“Some of the fighters wear the best uniforms, do the best drills, but hardly anyone has seen them fighting. Some you won't even think that they are fighters, but they are the best knights on the battlefield.”
― Zain Hashmi, A Blessed Olive Tree: A Spiritual Journey in Twenty Short Stories