"If unity is a song, then let it be loud enough to drown the sound of bullets. Let it be a hand extended, pulling us from the brink into the light of ourselves."
- "A Country That Carries Its Dead Like Firewood" by Oladosu Michael Emerald
"The wound remained. The feeling of being less - because we had no home - hung in the air. The weight of loss settled into our lives like dust in the corners of our fragile houses. We were a word written before we were born - refugee - an identity imposed, printed on the UNWRA ration card, carried like a birthmark." ??
- "In the Absence, Fire", by Malak Hijazi
"If you think you can build distance, craft an architecture to shield your eyes from the wreckage, convince yourself the violence is far away - then believe this: the same system will one day reach you. What devours us now will hunger for you later - if not in blood, then in silence, numbness, or the slow decay of all that makes you human.
You are not safe in your forgetting.
And we are not gone." ??
- "In the Absence, Fire", by Malak Hijazi
When you inadvertently colour-coordinate with the book you're reading!
We've all done that, yeah? 💛💙📙💙💛 🤭
"Our decision to launch the 'elements' anthology series with "Rage" was unanimous.
- Editor's Note, Farhaana Arefin
"An urgency wrapped, packaged
in sheets of doubt
conveyed to you
through
commerce and you want to shout -
No."
- Untitled, Rasheed Rollins
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The Hajar Book of Rage | 
