Tell me,' the man leans forward and says, 'have you heard of a lady called Madeleine? No? In 1996, this lady named Albright Madeleine, the US ambassador to the United Nations, was asked on television...
Pull a thread here and you’ll find it’s attached to the rest of the world.
Be careful, she said. You can’t fight a tiger.Yes you can, he said. You can if you are a tiger yourself.
Afghanistan had collapsed and everyone's life now lies broken at different levels within the rubble.
The soles of his shoes are worn the way the edges of erasers become rounded with use. As though he walks around correcting his mistakes.
What strange times are these, says Tara as they wend their way through the dead to safety, when Muslims must fear other Muslims.
The sky is a blue so clean it verges on joy.
On the journey towards the beloved, you live by dying at every step
Women joked amongst themselves: 'Why do you think a bride cries on her wedding day? It's for the love that this marriage is putting an end to for all eternity. Men may think a woman has no past- you w...
We are warriors of Allah.You are thugs with Korans.
We are not men of hate, but we must be men of justice.
All great artists know that part of their task is to light up the distance between two human beings.
To visit certain streets was to realise that only the sky remained unchanged there.
This is among the few things that can be said about love with any confidence. It is small enough to be contained within the heart but, pull thin, it would drape the entire world.
The opposite of war is not peace but civilisation, and civilisation is purchased with violence and cold-blooded murder. With war.
History is the third parent.
There is nothing that torments Satan more than the sight of a faithful in prayer.
If love was the result of having caught a glimpse of another's loneliness, then he had loved Mikal since they were both ten years old.
God is just a name for our wonder.
At the gun shop, AK-47s were stacked six high on the shelves … The day after the West invaded Afghanistan, a ‘piety discount’ was introduced for those who wished to buy the weapon to go the jihad.