Sublime

reverie,

the ever elusive hope that I was beginning to recover. This hope gave me courage, and I began to dream—within pain, but gladly—that I could soon return to my former life, and that I would make love to Sibel, and that we would marry and begin a normal, happy married life. But these fantasies were short-lived; before a day had passed, the old familia

Her life is informed by loss but because she’s lost, she loves and loves freely, openly, with all she can.

sublime, pétillant d’une touchante intelligence. « Je voudrais que mes textes servent aux générations à venir », m’avait-il dit. « Ce sera ta part de postérité », avais-je cru bon de le flatter. Ses traits s’étaient contractés. Il avait rétorqué : « La postérité n’a jamais rendu l’étreinte des tombes moins dure. Elle a juste le mérite de modérer no

A saudade destrói e seca o coração.”

Bolbol saw Hussein coming back, escorted by an agent waving his gun and gesturing to the rest of the family to get out of the van. Hussein stood next to Bolbol and whispered, “They’re going to arrest the body.” Bolbol assumed there must have been some mistake, but no, when the agent led them to a tiled, windowless room, opened the door, and pushed

He’d already scoured his home of everything that might have caused him harm in this situation: purging each and every suspicious belonging and even canceling all the television channels that regime supporters considered “biased,” such as Al Jazeera and Al Arabiya, and filling his “Favorites” list with pro-regime channels: first came Al Manar and Al