I saw the movie The Judge the other day. Billy Bob Thornton says something about how white trash is also protected by the law. I thought of… Read more “This post isn’t about love”
Author: yusratek
Arabic the mother tounge
I grew up speaking ‘broken Arabic.’ I could reply to my mom and understand but not fluently. It only got better as my family traveled to Libya… Read more “Arabic the mother tounge”
Human rights abuses ‘leave a third of Libyans with mental health problems’
” Research by Dignity – the Danish Institute against Torture – shared with the Guardian, paints a devastating picture of the human consequences of the regionalism, tribalism and… Read more “Human rights abuses ‘leave a third of Libyans with mental health problems’”
I’m always in a state of longing…
People say writers usually are. What for doesn’t need to be defined. Just longing. My blog 7obsessions, where I published all the poetry I’d written since high… Read more “I’m always in a state of longing…”
Libya-what happened?
It’s appropriate that I will mark my 30th birthday in Cairo. The last time I was in Egypt I was a Twitter-obsessed self-proclaimed revolutionary with intellectual crushes… Read more “Libya-what happened?”
Commentary: Libya is more than Gadhafi
Article I wrote for CNN, published Monday September 28, 2009 On Wednesday, Libyan leader Moammar Gadhafi spoke before the U.N. General Assembly for the first time in his… Read more “Commentary: Libya is more than Gadhafi”
Yusra Tekbali 