Eleonora

“I saw the terrible wrath of the place, saw it obliterate hundreds of thousands of people with names and ethnicity and religion like mine, knew for certain that there were deep ugly cracks in the bedrock of this thing called “the free world.” And yet I believed the cracks could be fixed, that the thing at the core, whatever it was, was salvageable. Until the fall of 2023. Until the slaughter.”
― Omar El Akkad, One Day, Everyone Will Have Always Been Against This

“What happens if we pivot away from the way things are currently done, and attempt to unlearn what have been presented as universal truths and ways of being?”
― Leah Cowan, Border Nation: A Story of Migration

“They gave us watches and took away time They gave us shoes and took the paths They gave us parliaments and took freedom They gave us playground swings and took celebrations They gave us dried milk and took childhood They gave us fertilizers and took spring They gave us guards and locks and took safety They gave us rebels and took the revolution. —MUHAMMAD AL-MAGHOUT,”
― Marwan Hisham, Brothers of the Gun: A Memoir of the Syrian War