This is my uncle, my love, and my best friend, a bookworm, so funny he can't leave you sad, so wise and mischievous at the same time, he has a special world, a different mind, a way of speaking that makes you want to keep talking to him forever, very, very, very funny,
I have zero interest in apologizing for centuries-old tropes created by Europeans, when millions of us confront real, tangible oppression, living behind cement walls, or under siege, or in exile, and living with woes too expansive to summarize.
Today, I lost my entire family,
My mother, my father, and my beloved sisters, Sarah, Saja, and Manar were all martyred.
I have no words to describe the pain, Please, keep them in your prayers.
I am the one thing in life I can control. I am inimitable I am an original. I'm not falling behind or running late. I'm not standing still I am lying in wait.