Her voice and her work have shown her local community how important it is to embrace cultural diversity, diverse opinions and outlooks…
Read MoreIt is devastating to think that West Africa lost a highly-regarded member of their community, famous for his literacy in Arabic, to North Carolina, where it was illegal for a slave to even be literate in English…
Read MoreTo an outsider, the Arab world may seem like a culture where norms propagate misogyny and inequality, but this quote showed that sex is a two way street, and pleasure is bilateral…
Read MoreYou wonder whether you have traded one death sentence for the next as the engine fails and the old boat moans under the angry tumbling of ocean...
Read MoreYou tell me, eyes clouded by the heaviness, of a culture that has long moved away from your history, yet you cling to so stubbornly...
Read MoreI revelled in the power of my many homes. I sit in my room for hours and listen to that Thai singer.
and muse about the camels from my Arab home...