We come from the land, give our love and labor to her, and she nurtures us in return. When we die, we return to the land. In a way, she owns us. Palestine owns us and we belong to her

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

Israeli occupation exposes us very young to the extremes of our emotions, until we cannot feel except in the extreme.

An instant can crush a brain and change the course of life, the course of history.

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

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.

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