La Razon del Desanimo (English translation below) Ingenuos creyentes del paraíso abonamos al infierno, adheridos a los sentidos como único camino. Hemos convertido al mundo …
Read Full StoryA Twenty-Year-Old Letter from London: Memories, Midlife, and the Millennium
Let me paint you a scene — it is still one of my favourites in the world: I am sitting in the Royal Festival Hall …
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My father did the crossword every evening when he came home from work. I think solving puzzles helped him wash away the day. He’d fold …
Read Full StorySandcastles by the Seine: A Fable of Love and Longing
This was supposed to be the beginning of the beginning. But I don’t know where to start. Ten years ago? London. A dark …
Read Full StoryMarawi
By the side of Lake Lanao strips of dodol hang by a thread wrapped in cellophane and corn husks like body bags strewn together loosely unlike the …
Read Full StorySmog: Working through Heartbreak in Beijing
The grieving never stops. That much I can tell you. With certainty. It hits you when you see their name… on an old email, a …
Read Full StoryAt Majeed’s: Art, Truth, & War in Baghdad
The afternoon was overcast. The way most December afternoons are in Baghdad. A soft mud-yellow breeze blowing against a beige sky. The brown date palms …
Read Full StoryThe Sound of Pain
The sound of pain is universal. You do not need to understand the language of the words when the wailing the tone the texture of …
Read Full StorySnowflakes
“Into the clockwork universe the quantum child. Why doesn’t every mother believe her child can change the world? The child can. This is the joke. …
Read Full StorySandstorm
Where does one life end and another begin? In the whirlwind of a sandstorm… how do you see the beloved’s face? The beloved. A mirage. …
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