I Write, therefore, I Exist
Whoever kills a soul…., it is as if he had killed the entire mankind Qurain Whenever I watch the american news coverage of every terrorist attack on American soil, I hear media asking this question: Where are the moderate muslim? why don’t they speak up against Redial muslims who are killing on the name of Islam. I used to Continue Reading
Two days ago, I met a stranger in London underground as I was exploring the city. The conversation started small as I was asking about the underground map. Then, we found ourselves talking about everything from work to traveling to culture. He is from Canada working in UK and I am from Saudi coming here Continue Reading
“Extreme violence has a way of preventing us from seeing the interests it serves.” Part of Naomi Klein’s book “The Shock Doctrine: The Rise of Disaster Capitalism” “I was gonna tell him: You can ask the dogs why they want to get married” A Saudi friend telling me his story, as he was asked by Continue Reading
Since I left Portland, I have been struggling to write anything in my blog. I felt the loss of the most important thing in my life, which is the ability to express my feeling. Sometimes, I feel attempting to write is like giving birth to words, painful in the beginning and may require Caesarean surgery. Continue Reading
The French philosopher, Voltaire, has once said that “Doubt is not a pleasant condition but certainty is an absurd one.” And I have never been so doubtful and confused of who I am as now. Life is somehow like a cycle. We move from one doubt to another, from one confusion, to less or maybe Continue Reading
My beloved, you know how weak I am, you know for certainty how insignificant I am, I can o nothing to help you, I am a lonely woman, I cannot reclaim your rights, I cannot support you, or take your revenge, but I will do everything I can for you… I will cry for you” Continue Reading
Rights aren’t given, they are taken and if you aren’t willing to stand up and make a sacrifice for those rights, then just forget it. Black people would never gotten their rights, if Rose Parks had chosen to give up her seat to the white man in the bus, and let’s imagine the history of Continue Reading
I am a human being, a simple human being who wants to live his life to the fullest, achieve his dreams, read more and more, travel around the world, meet new friends, fall in love, get married and build a family. I am a human being with emotions. I feel sad when I see people Continue Reading
Romanticism is very complex topic and it is even more complex when we are talking about it in a country like Saudi Arabia. I am going to talk about in a simplistic term. I think Saudi people are very romantic but they don’t express or talk about Romance in public. They really look for it in their private life. Romance has been referred to as forbidden thing Continue Reading
by Nizar Qabbani* In a country where thinkers are assassinated, and writers are consideredinfidels and books are burnt,in societies that refuse the other, andforce silence on mouths and thoughts forbidden,and to question is a sin,I must beg your pardon, would you permit me? Would you permit me to bring up my children as I want, Continue Reading