Hafs

“I no longer feel the responsibility to give humans eyes for humanity.”
― Mohammed El-Kurd, Rifqa

“Some of the fighters wear the best uniforms, do the best drills, but hardly anyone has seen them fighting. Some you won't even think that they are fighters, but they are the best knights on the battlefield.”
― Zain Hashmi, A Blessed Olive Tree: A Spiritual Journey in Twenty Short Stories

“Don’t tell the beloved, you are I
and I am you, say
the opposite of that: we are two guests
of an excess, fugitive cloud.”
― Mahmoud Darwish

“The British didn’t give your culture a visa: leave it at home”
― Jennifer Nansubuga Makumbi, Manchester Happened