Akrat – A Luxury Arab Jewelry Brand

AKRAT BREIF Akrat, a luxury jewelry brand that takes its inspiration from the Eastern civilization, calligraphy designs highlighting poetry and love expressions. This brand designed by the jewelry designer, Enas Younis. Enas won the award “the best Arab jewelry designer for the year 2020” where the ceremony was held in London in December 2020. Akrat

Is it fair?

By Shahd Mahnavi Is it fair? Tell me now, is it fair? With all the advancements in technology and evolving mentality, laws claiming to uplift humanity, yet my people remain trapped in the year 1948, when the occupation began, stuck in a broken Time Machine, constantly traveling back to oppression and injustice. Tell me, how

I am what I am

I am what I am, my roots, the truth, I proudly stand. Arabic flows from my tongue,I am who I am, my identity unsung. I cannot conceal my mother tongue,I learnt different ones. English, Farsi I speak. In my veins, Palestine runs deep, accept me as I am, let prejudice sleep. My name is Shahd,

The Ember of Time

Is it the ember of  time that’s forcibly melted in us? or the trick of mirrors between reality and imagination? With my both hands I feel your absence… exactly the same I feel my body You once said “I will vanish behind the curtains of dreams” At that time…we didn’ believe you.. and we mocked you

COVID19 Patient describes her horrific experience with Corona virus.

By Hafiza Ibrahim PAINPain controls my veinsDigging inside my body and soulPain!! pulsing like a sudden urgeCrushing and shoving my energyDiscouraging every breath of air… My head feels heavySpinning green phosphor imagesDancing around inside my eyelidsDarkness seeping all over me like a heavy cloudSuffocating me by the throatI stifle a moan… Pain, splintering my musclesThreatening,