Afghanistan had collapsed and everyone’s life now lies broken at different levels within the rubble.

There are no innocent people in a guilty nation.

But whatever any of them thought one thing was always certain: even though they suffered and had to struggle at times to bring meaning and even the most basic dignity into their existence and even...

He led her back to the house, the perfume from the acacia clinging to her. The djinn was supposed to live in the scent of the acacia blossom, making themselves visible only to the young...

A daughter, a wife, a grandson,’ You could say this place took away all I had. I could easily appear to be one of those unfortunate white men you hear about, who thought too lovingly...

Tell me,’ the man leans forward ans says, ‘have you heard of a lady called Madeleine? No? In 1996, this lady named Albright Madeleine, the US ambassador to the United Nations, was asked on television...

Pull a thread here and you’ll find it’s attached to the rest of the world.

The sky is a blue so clean it verges on joy.

How keen everyone is to make this world their home forgetting its impermanence It’s like trying to see and name constellations in a fireworks display.

Not even God can change the past.

The bullet that has hit us Muslims today left the gun centuries ago when we let the clergy decide that knowledge and education were not important.

I don’t feel old. I just feel like someone young who has something wrong with him.

Even the air of this country has a story to tell about warfare. It is possible here to lift a piece of bread from a plate and following it back to its origins, collect a...

Love was the result of having caught a glimpse of another’s loneliness.

On the journey towards the beloved, you live by dying at every step

God is just a name for our wonder.