No matter who you are, no matter what greatness you’ve achieved in your life or what gifts you’ve given to the rest of humanity, if you criticize Israel, you must expect to become persona non grata. You should expect an utter onslaught of attacks...

How can one find the first moment of love? When, in what instant, does the night’s dark sky become blue?

An instant can crush a brain and change the course of life, the course of history.

Nima Shirazi is a rare voice of rational analysis and political insight that provides an eloquent counter to the pervasive absurdities that make up popular political discourse.

We’re all born with the greatest treasures we’ll ever have in life. One of those treasures is your mind, another is your heart.

Love cannot reconcile with deception.

We come from the land, give our love and labor to her, and she nurtures us in return. When we die, we return to the land. In a way, she owns us. Palestine owns us and we belong to her.

The land and everything on it can be taken away, but no one can take away your knowledge or the degrees you earn.

كنت امرأة قليلة الكلام و بلا أصدقاء. كنت ((إيمي)). اسم بلا معنى. آمال مفرَغة من الأمل. اللغة العملية فقط كان بإمكانها اجتيازُ الغصَّة التي صنعها الحب الذي يتلوى في رماد القصة التي كادت أت تكون. و على كل حال، هل ثمة أي كلمات يمكنها استعادة مستقبَل حُرم زمنَه؟

How was it that a man could not walk onto his own property, visit the grave of his wife, eat the fruits of forty generations of his ancestors’ toil, without mortal consequence?