“Prayer is meant to be a personal expression, not a chore or an empty ritual. You can pray silently by yourself or out loud, and you can pray alone or in a group, as long as everyone in that group is also Yazidi.”
― The Last Girl: My Story of Captivity, and My Fight Against the Islamic State
― The Last Girl: My Story of Captivity, and My Fight Against the Islamic State
“I no longer feel the responsibility to give humans eyes for humanity.”
― Rifqa
― Rifqa
“It’s one thing to see shifts on an individual level, but quite another to see them on an institutional or governmental one. To induce a person’s change of heart is different from challenging the tremendous force of collective denial.”
― Recognising the Stranger: On Palestine and Narrative
― Recognising the Stranger: On Palestine and Narrative
“Empires have fallen. The Berlin Wall fell, political apartheid in South Africa did end, and although in neither of these cases were these putative conclusions by any means the end of the story, they are testaments to the fact that, under the force of coordinated international and local action, Israeli apartheid will also end. The question is, when and how? Where in the narrative do we now stand?”
― Recognising the Stranger: On Palestine and Narrative
― Recognising the Stranger: On Palestine and Narrative
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