Samira Ahmed

In Paris, seventeen-year-old Khayyam, a part-Indian, part-French Muslim American, is at a crossroads when a chance encounter plunges her into research about Leila, a girl much like Khayyam who inspired Eugáene Delacroix.

Mad, Bad & Dangerous to Know

Lindsay

In America, we bulldoze our past, build the future on the rubble, and pretend that ghosts can't haunt us.

Si'la says that humans cry salt tears because we emerged from the sea searching for a new world to conquer, but are bound to carry our first home with us forever. A curse. A reminder of what we lost.

Is it possible to cry when you are drowning? Can you distinguish between the salt of your tears and the salt of the sea? Does the ocean weep with you?

The birds are singing, but after hours of no sleep, their joy feels like an affront. Their symphony, a cacophony. But the truth is, they don't know I exist. They only sing for themselves.

When we say history is written by the victors, we mean history is written by the patriarchy.

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