Posted : 10 hours ago
writing is safer, somehow
because my pen cannot stutter like my lips do,
and words get stuck in throats,
not fingertips, can’t stumble
on paper trails of blue lines
because writing is definite and clear
and no one can tell if i am crying
or laughing
through written words alone
Today is the 65th anniversary of Al-Nakba, or The Catastrophe in Arabic. It marks the period in which 750,000 indigenous Palestinians were forced into exile by Zionist leaders so they could establish the State of Israel. Benny Morris believes of 330 Palestinian villages that were abandoned, 282 of…
