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2:27am
Night has become a time of restlessness for me lately. Thoughts begin to flood my mind as soon as my head hits the pillow. When everything is turned off, all that accompanies me are my thoughts. And I think a lot. Thoughts lead me to many places. Sometimes they lead me to excitement and happiness. Other times they lead me more so into anxiousness. Either way, I find myself traveling to and from,...
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All humans are dead except those who seek knowledge. And all those who have...
– Imam Shafi’i
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April 2013
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The first red flag was when people stopped calling them songs and started calling them tracks. It’s almost like they’re not even songs anymore, but numbers first. Our generation doesn’t really relate songs in a connective way like our parents did when their favorite albums came out. A song used to be interpreted as part of an ongoing storyline or message within an album. Today,...
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March 2013
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How do we, in the Middle East, expect the rest of the world to feel an obligation to help our countries when we can’t even find it within ourselves to help one another? When a Sunni MUSLIM and a Shiite MUSLIM cannot even pray together let alone talk to one another? When we isolate Christian Arabs, as a whole other separate category of Arabs, and don’t really talk about their existence?...