Thoughts
But I felt it anyway
I would have loved to have you break my heart.
Caution, I am no fool. I know your intentions. I know what lies ahead. I know it is a barren terrain but that never really mattered in the presence of such affection.
I would have chosen to love you unconditionally. Like a moth, I cannot help but be attracted by the flames. Several rounds of gut-wrenching pain did not rid me of this desire to burn.
Exile and Love
“To be rooted is perhaps the most important and least recognized need of the human soul,” writes Edward Said. He defines exile as an unhealable rift, a forced separation between a person and their native place, between the self and its true home.
On Violence
I was reading Fyodor Dostoyevsky’s White Nights by the seafront of the Municipal Sports Stadium in Saida, a place that encapsulates all the contradictions of the city and mirrors the turmoil of my own feelings toward it. Notably, this was the very first work of Dostoyevsky I had ever read, despite being an avid reader.
Behind the Scenes of 'I cannot escape you'.
'I cannot escape you' is an experimental project that brought together more than more than 40 individual from three continents. The project is multidisciplinary and included different layers and forms of expression. The end result was an original composed song with a lyric and a music video.