“ Say what you wish about media in the Arab world, but say it knowing that no media channel in the world is absolutely free. Aysha Taryam
“ In a sea of human beings, it is difficult, at times even impossible, to see the human as being. Aysha Taryam
“ When an entire segment of the world is burned and reduced to a lawless battleground for thugs and mercenaries, a land where government does not exist, where the slate of history is being wiped out and… Aysha Taryam
“ The cost of war is like an immeasurable tremor that knows no borders, its shockwaves reverberating across the world resulting in universal suffering. Aysha Taryam
“ Just as one goes on a fast or a body cleanse you owe it to yourselves to detox your mind, it will not be easy but easy never yielded lasting results. Aysha Taryam
“ We are imperfect creatures created with egotistical defects, insecurities and an incomprehensible desire for perfection and the excessive use of social media feeds the raging fires within, most of the… Aysha Taryam
“ The Arab Spring whose seeds failed to bloom anything other than a chaotic mess that requires only blood to grow has contributed immensely to the rising numbers of these migrants. Aysha Taryam
“ I have come to realise that the most critical of the social media accounts are the least verbal in real life and I can assure you that most social media trolls have no physical troll land to dwell. Aysha Taryam
“ Much of the atrocities that are committed towards Arab women occur partly because the victim does not know that she has a basic right for her body to be hers, for her privacy to be respected and for h… Aysha Taryam
“ Faith is intrinsic to humanity and the freedom to practice one's religion is a right no power can deny Aysha Taryam
“ Impressionable young students must be given true examples of the Arab woman through her own words. When I say students I do not mean young girls alone for in order to raise a generation that truly bel… Aysha Taryam
“ And so it is inevitable that the day has come when we write about privacy with such nostalgia, analysing it as we would some unearthed fossil of a creature our human eyes had never fallen on. Aysha Taryam
“ In this world where I sit at my desk writing these words, people die, they pass on, people are mortal. In the cyber world we inhabit they do not. Aysha Taryam
“ Societies have a peculiar way of relating, or more accurately non-relating, to rape maybe because it is so vicious, they choose to live in denial about it. Aysha Taryam
“ Viciousness is part of the world we live in, some of us choose to ignore it with the rationalisation of wanting only positivity to flow our way. How selfish we have become! That the pain of others has… Aysha Taryam
“ What social-media really becomes after years of use is a constant stream of information both verbal and visual that at first drenches the mind, quenching its thirst for knowledge, and subduing its cur… Aysha Taryam
“ If we are to fight discrimination and injustice against women we must start from the home for if a woman cannot be safe in her own house then she cannot be expected to feel safe anywhere. Aysha Taryam
“ There is no point of relaying statistics on rape because for every figure given there are thousands missing, unreported. It is a shameful state we have created where a victim chooses to endure the pai… Aysha Taryam
“ Violence is violence and can in no way be misconstrued as discipline under any circumstance cultural or otherwise. Aysha Taryam
