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Monthly Archives: March 2011
“I don’t know where I’m going, but I’m on my way”
In the comfort and quiet of my sitting room I watch the uprisings in the Middle East on different news channels. Although the coverage is different from one channel to the next, the scene they show is that of the … Continue reading
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Fear Doesn’t Listen To Reason
“Mummy! Mummy!” Dalia heard a scream. Her clothes torn and covered with dust, a little girl stood in the middle of some kind of road, debris all around her. The little girl was screaming at the top of her voice. … Continue reading
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Who Would Find Their Bodies?
“It’s coming,” she said and there was the whizzing again as if the bomb was passing lower between the buildings; and then there was the deafening explosion. Then another, and yet another. This time the bombs were falling at a … Continue reading
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Tonight She was in a Hurry to Reach Home
“Do you do this often?” He asked. “You mean talk to strangers or – ? I am sorry,” Dalia felt a tightening in her throat. “It’s alright, you don’t have to apologize. In fact,” he didn’t finish his sentence. A … Continue reading
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How can the Ordinary Beat the Extraordinary
(Taken from The Lost I, Chapter 19) The basement- turned- shelter was full of people. There were chairs, rugs and mats spread on the floor for everyone to sit on. Hayat went to a corner and kneeled on a rug, … Continue reading
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Tagged Bahrain, basement, Beirut, bombing, bombs, book, chaos, chichikir, child, civil war, civilians, death, destruction, earthquake, Egypt, fear, Iraq, Ivory Coast, japan, Lebanon, Libya, Middle East, mother, ocean, sendai, separation, shelter, survive, The Lost I, tsunami, Tunisia, uproar, war, water, wave, yemen
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Once in a Lifetime
Did you ever wake up one day and say to yourself, today is a beautiful day and it is going to stay like that no matter what? Three mornings ago I got out of bed saying what a beautiful day … Continue reading
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Will things ever change for women in the Middle East?
Today is International Women’s Day. There are lots of things I would like to say on this day but I can’t sum it all up in one post, so instead I’ll just quote a scene from my book The Lost … Continue reading
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Tagged baby, Beirut, bombing, book, ceasefire, chichikir, civil war, civilians, friend, innocent, international women's day, Lebanon, Middle East, pregnant, The Lost I, war, woman, women, women's day
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I Am That Chrysalis
March 4, 2011, a little before 5:00 am, I am sitting in my living room in Montreal, with fountain pen in hand and a writing pad in my lap, ready to start a conversation with myself before my husband wakes … Continue reading
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