My Alternative Reality

"عند رحيل المستحيلة.. خلفت وراءها سوساً ناخراً أعماق كل اكتمال نابت"

"My memory of you is better than you." ~ Lao Tzu

"If you have no more happiness to give, give me your pain." ~ Lou Andreas-Salomé

The song I came to sing remains unsung to this day. I have spent my days in stringing and in unstringing my instrument. The time has not com...

I am reminded by your "otherness" so much so that it expands and fills up all the void around us, sucking up all the air. I try to...

"Le pardon n'est pas un outil de guérison de la blessure. Il n'est pas nécessaire à la libération de son passé. Il l'est en...

If you think you're going to break me by forcing me to listen to Mayada's Ana Ba3sha2ak in EVERY taxi ride, and stage it like it...

Overheard said to a colleague who is even more anal about communication consistency than I am: "you didn't transform the document o...

Et après toi, que dois-je faire? Fais de crochet!

I just discovered this song this morning as a part two to a song I love (Jeet Ta Hibbak). The lyrics are very meaningful :) حبيت...إوعك تقول...

My (not-so-secret-to-someone) Secret: Every week I check it, thinking which ones sound like they were sent by me, and which ones could'v...

مع اقتراب تمام انتصاف الليلة سيشتعل الصخب ويحلق طائر البهجة الفضي فوق رؤوس المدعوين غير أن أصواتهم جميعا سيصاحبها الصدى وسيتحركون كأطياف متر...

يا ماري- أنتِ تعرفين سبب سكوتكِ أما أنا فأجهله. وليس من العدالة أن يكون جهل المرء مصدرا لتشويش أيامه ولياليه الأعمال والأقوال بالنيات، ولقد ...

"She wondered what she was afraid of, losing him or losing all those things: the curtains, the paintings, the carpet. All the security ...

The title is what attracted me, I simply "got" what he meant. Then the synopsis. Then the writer's bio (Italian, working on a ...

I am awkward around children. It is true.. I always treat them like little short grown-ups, assuming they understand more than they show. Fo...

If you wish someone a great time "with friends and family", doesn't it simply imply that you're neither?!

أحلامي رَكِبَتْ، أمسِ، قِطارَ الليلِ ولم أعرف كيف أودعها وأَتَتْني أنباءُ تَدَهْوُرِهِ في وادٍ ليس بذي زرعٍ (ونجا سائقُه من بين الركّ...

You give your hand to me Then you say hello I can hardly speak My heart is beating so And anyone could tell You think you know me well Well,...

" That's the day I realized that there was this entire life behind things, and this incredibly benevolent force that wanted me to k...