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She is the sun whose dwelling is in the sky, thus give your heart good comfort! For you wont be able to ascend to her and she won’t be able to descend to you.
ʿAbbās b. al-Aḥnaf
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“كان لا يتعبني في الليل إلا صمتها.”
— محمود درويش
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Anna Akhmatova, tr. by Lenore Mayhew and William Mcnaughton, from Poem Without A Hero and Selected Poems; “To Alexander Blok”
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Field kitchen. Chechnya autonomy. Russia. 2000
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