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 reverse side of love is unbearable loss.

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.

Under the broken promises of superpowers and under the worlds indifference to spilled Arab blood.

I know she is crying. Her tears fall on the wrong side, into the bottomless well inside her.

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

For I'll keep my humanity, though I did not keep my promises. ... and Love shall not be wrested from my veins.