Following a piece I read on third culture kids or as they’re called in Libya double shafras, I began thinking of the numerous conversations I’ve had with friends… Read more “Living in between countries”
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Poetry
“I am large, I contain magnitudes.” –Walt Whitman
Solving my own puzzle
In a city of 22 million he lays his head on the dusty mattress and pokes the cotton tickling his face pushing it back inside, with provision,… Read more “Solving my own puzzle”
Dictator Stamp. Idealism
You Again. And the Inner Peace that Accompanies every thought like Pure Honey on a Green Tea Leaf. You and all that you are– and all I’m sure you… Read more “Dictator Stamp. Idealism”
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?”
