the reverse side of love is unbearable loss.

love is what we are about, my darling," she says. "Not even in death has our love faded, for I live in your veins.

The roots of our grief coil so deeply into loss that death has cometo live with us like a family member who makes you happy by avoidingyou, but who is still one of the family. Our anger is a rage that Westerners cannot understand. Our sadness can make the stonesweep. And the way we love is no exception

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.

They had bombed and burned,killed and maimed,plundered and looted.Now they had come to claim the land.

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

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