A poem — Yesterday, or it might be the day before because it cannot be the day after, can it now, even to someone whose days seep into each other like gauzy colours of aquarelle, a fellow writer mentioned me amongst those she named Female Poets — a kind gesture for which I…

The Origins of Antisemitism — I once read that hatred is like drinking poison hoping other(s) will die. If this is so, and the evidence of it seems to be everywhere, it explains why death, decay and destruction have plagued our world since time immemorial. Of all the carefully sown, nursed and propagated hatred, the…

Flash fiction — a short story — Iremember waiting every morning for a sleepy, yellow bus to appear at the end of my street — wind-swept, rain-washed, bathed in the sunshine. The small group of usual suburban commuters lingered around: bored office workers, a woman with broad hips and neon-pink lipstick, students hunched over their readings, fingers…

Reflections on my first year on Medium — It was on the 6th of November last year that I posted my first-ever article on Medium. It was a day much like today, a shy spring sun seeking its foothold amongst drizzly skies and winds whistling long into the night. Before November came to a close, I had 100…

A prose poem — From the ‘Letters to my Daughter’ If I were to stitch a quilt from all our Octobers, it would have twenty-three squares. The first made from the soft, fluffy fabrics fit for a one-month-old baby girl: pearly whites, pale yellows, pastel pinks, sky-blues, hand-knitted woollen booties with a matching hat…

Review of Netflix’s new documentary — Even if the words Netflix and documentary next to each other bring to mind slapdash pieces with surface-level examinations of facts, and/or gloss over the more mundane ones, when the introduction reads: ‘Using reenactment and home videos, this dark documentary investigates the apparent possession of a young boy — and…

History of Israel-Palestine Conflict — As I watch the ongoing bloodshed in the Middle East and biased reporting that often follows, I feel the need to provide a concise summary based on historical facts. My aim is to clarify my own thoughts and possibly offer some value to anyone who reads this. To better understand…

Wars, Slaughters, and Humankind — If any of the ancient people, whether a learned scholar or an illiterate peasant, suddenly found themselves transported into our modern world, there would be only two things they would recognize — war and religion. Interchangeably. It would be too easy, and possibly too convenient, to leap from that realization…

Making peace with the passage of time — We all know it. Or at least feel it intuitively. That we are creatures of time, that time is change and change is entropy and without entropy, there would be no time. At least not for us. Still, we yearn for permanence despite all reason as we struggle to accept…