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“in Jerusalem, every footstep is a grave. /Here, every footstep is a grave, / every grandmother is a Jerusalem.”
― Mohammed El-Kurd

“A woman tells him a pen is a sword. What’s a pen
to a rifle? Another fed him a sonnet. If Shakespeare
was from here he wouldn’t be writing.”
― Mohammed El-Kurd, Rifqa

“Some of the fighters wear the best uniforms, do the best drills, but hardly anyone has seen them fighting. Some you won't even think that they are fighters, but they are the best knights on the battlefield.”
― Zain Hashmi, A Blessed Olive Tree: A Spiritual Journey in Twenty Short Stories

“Out of my ignorance, I called you a homeland and I forgot homelands are taken away.”
― Mahmoud Darwish