Feature image by Ahmed akacha
HOF — After 14 years of war in Syria, here’s the hardest lesson I’ve learned:
The real war isn’t between you and your enemy. It’s inside you—between the part that wants to fight and the part that wants to compromise. Victory only comes when the will to compromise leads even the will to fight. Because only then can you reach the same part in your opponent.
Feature image by TOMO
Rehau – The Palestinian flag is everywhere.
Painted on faces. Draped across shoulders. Waving above crowds in London, Paris, New York, Sydney.
But here’s the strange truth: for most Palestinians, that flag has rarely carried the power people project onto it.
Continue reading “A Flag Without a People, for a People Without a Flag”
This is a personal story for those born into the spaces between worlds. These are the children of intermarriages—the outsiders who never belonged to any tribe. To those who’ve felt like mistakes, like intrusions, enduring the weight of invisible exclusion and the quiet violence of not fitting in.
Continue reading “The Thread That Holds Us in the Power of Love”
HOF – The battle isn’t against an external enemy—not with armies or wars. It unfolds quietly within us, when the smallest parts of our souls grow weary of resisting our own wickedness. We let the rats of fear and fatigue fester, gnawing away at the cry for justice. With a thousand invisible daggers, they slice at the core of who we are. Only then is the human truly defeated—not by a sword, but by surrendering to the rot inside.
Continue reading “Déjà vu: Roadmap to the Abyss”
Originally published at the Foundation for Economic Education (FEE) under What War and Terror Do to Principles: A Young Syrian Recounts the Years in His Smoldering Homeland. Feature image by Ahmed Akacha
GRAZ – I lived in Syria for three out of the four and half years of war. I’ve never been physically harmed, even though there were several close calls. In another sense, though, I’ve come to realize this war has killed so much in me that I’ve turned into something completely unfamiliar; something that often works like a calculator.
Continue reading “The devil between the Details and the Big Picture”
Roumani Line 