Meg

“To induce a person's change of heart is different from challenging the tremendous force of collective denial.”
― Isabella Hammad, Recognizing the Stranger: On Palestine and Narrative

“I try to breathe,
but as I inhale,
the light screams,
the sea roars,
and the world around me threatens to collapse.
I run--
above water, below water
chasing shadows that twist and disappear.
A colossal hand flips me over,
tossing me left, then right,
spinning me endlessly in this vast, burning pan.”
― Fatima Hassouna

“A new loin,
a new dagger,
a new Brutus.
The stabbing is ancient,
what's ancient is the stabbing.
O world,
the stabbed have become three.”
― Hashim Shalula

“We emerged from the scream,
we lived within it for a thousand years,
and we didn't ask from which throat we spilled.
Suddenly, everything went silent,
and screamers no longer had a voice.
It is said in lore that an epic has melted our traces.”
― Hashim Shalula