Sometimes, when I’m in my history class and the teacher is explaining some of the weirdest things that people allowed to happen in the past, I’m like, what even — In a recent class, an extremely vivid and horrifying vision hit me hard: As the…
Zoya Ibrahim
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Zoya Ibrahim aims to give a voice to the voiceless by writing stories that the mainstream media hesitates to cover. When she's not writing, she likes to study sociology and discover ways to improve the Muslim community's life and awareness to better suit their religion.
“I-I can’t…anymore…” Her voice broke, and with it, Ammar’s heart, for the thousandth time in the same month. Abeer was sitting on the hard, cracked floor, curled up in a frail little ball. One of her tiny little hands was on her almost non-existent stomach…
I don’t know about you, but whenever the exam season is over, I take a deep, fat sigh of relief. Until I remember that this whole life is an exam, and the Result Day isn’t as far as we like to think it is….
My grandmother used to say that a feast is not determined by the amount of food present – it’s measured by the joy of the occasion. So today, we have a feast. Bright sunshine gleams in through the freshly polished windows, and the whole house…