Ahmed Header Ashour

IT SHALL PASS…

Lubna Ahmad Abu Dahrouj, Ahmed Header Ashour

They always say:it shall pass.As simple as a three word sentence could be.They repeat it as if it were a curse.As if grief were smoke,easy to scatter with breath. But …

SUSPENDED

Shoug Basem Mukhaimar, Ahmed Header Ashour

Woman in an ambulance hiding her face as if in tears with a bloody corpse in front of her.

We wait—not because we expect peace,but because the bombing leaves us no other choice. We wait like one who hides a wound beneath the mud,Like one who buries their cry …