the reverse side of love is unbearable loss.

Amal,I believe that most Americans do not love as we do. It is not for any inherent deficiency or superiority in them. They live in the safe, shallow, parts that rarely push human emotions into the depths where we dwell.

The land and everything on it can be taken away, but no one can take away your knowledge or the degrees you earn

Nima Shirazi is a rare voice of rational analysis and political insight that provides an eloquent counter to the pervasive absurdities that make up popular political discourse.

How can one find the first moment of love? When, in what instant, does the night's dark sky become blue?

A persistent breeze lifted the thin curtains, fluttering a few moments of tranquility into the turbulent day.

I watch life trickle from the bullet wound of a sixteen-year-old "example" and marvel how things weak, even words, will turn vicious and merciless to gain power,despite reason or history