Alaa

“The streets of Aqaba are shell spirals and, on summer nights, crowded and complicated as a woman's heart.”
― Diana Abu-Jaber, Crescent

“He tells about his Sudanese roommate at Georgetown who owned a prayer rug with a compass to find Mecca built right into it. "After a few weeks in America, he rolled it up and used the compass to go camping," Han says.”
― Diana Abu-Jaber, Crescent

“You want to protect you children, don't you? You let them out of your body but you never let them all the way out.”
― Diana Abu-Jaber, Crescent

“..a phantasm, a pink-palmed jinn, a ghost from one of the drowned cities.”
― Diana Abu-Jaber, Crescent