Wonders of Diana
I always say this, but: bloody hell, long time. Gosh, I miss when my website was called http://www.dianaism.com. I need to contact WordPress and get my old domain back. Anyway, I completely forgot about this blog when I saw no use for it. Maintaining it became a chore and I was uninspired to the point [...]
يقين - yaqeen - a word which has no real translation in English. It's a cross between certainty and conviction. It's like taking a blind, yet somehow calculated leap of faith. In Islam, when we pray, we pray with a sense of yaqeen, knowing that God will answer our prayers. He is there, he is listening and [...]
at ab felA Selling dreams of sultry surroundings Sordid coffee Scandalous serenity Of the silenced voices Within the locutions that have constrained my fading Arabic tongue Squiggles Vowels Seens س and sheens ش Leave nostalgic backdrops Oh, To fluently embrace the outcasts of the old Middle East Silent reconnections Of sepia screams Unwrapping rebellions In [...]
Hey everyone, this is an article I wrote for Middle East Monitor. For those who are not able to access the original, I am going to paste it on my blog. Here's the original. A self-proclaimed “humanitarian” and women’s rights activist from Jordan was caught recently taunting domestic workers at a recruitment agency on Snapchat. [...]
NOTE: This is re-published because there have been some difficulties in people accessing the original article on Middle East Monitor. Click here for the original. Eating disorders have for long haunted the lives of girls and women all over the world. The thought of a girl as young as 11 scrutinising herself and starving herself [...]
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Falsifier Moulding masks of infinite terrains evaporated clouds... Flawless face Meaningless pretty smiles hide soul-less laughs. Apathetic eyes. Anxious remarks. Manly beards and feminine hips Feminine beards and manly hips. Manly beards, and feminine hips Feminine beards and manly hips. Moulding masks fake infinite terrains evaporated clouds... And a fucking flawless face
Supple half smiles... Surround you with barbed wire during a thunderstorm and watch you inhale peace as you electrocute your mind. Supple half smiles... Blind stars until they collide Bring anarchy to the highway And sleep in a house with a rooftop that blows away on a freezing night. Supple half smiles... Come with sweet words [...]