love is what we are about, my darling," she says. "Not even in death has our love faded, for I live in your veins.
Susan AbulhawaDo you know, Mother, that Haj Salem was buried alive in his home? Does he tell you stories in heaven now? I wish I had had a chance to meet him. To see his toothless grin and touch his leathery skin. To beg him, as you did in your youth, for a story from our Palestine. He was over one hundred years old, Mother. To have lived so long, only to be crushed to death by a bulldozer. Is this what it means to be Palestinian?
Susan AbulhawaTag: death mother palestine palestinians
Would words shatter the immensity of life and death so close to one another?
Susan AbulhawaTag: life death life-and-death
Always" is a good word to believe in.
Susan AbulhawaI grieved three thousand times. Then I grieved for myself, a lonely woman without the honor given to the wives of the fallen. The reverence for their loss, for their children's loss. It was eloquent and grand. So moving and charged with solidarity...On September eleventh, I faced the last moments of your father's life. I saw him in every person who tried to jump and every body they pulled from the rubble. And I saw myself as I was never allowed to be, consoled, understood, and loved.
Susan AbulhawaTag: america americans september-9-11 september-11-attacks palestinians
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.
Susan AbulhawaI feel sad for him. Sad for the boy bound to the killer. I am sad for the youth betrayed by their leaders for symbols and flags and war and power.
Susan AbulhawaYou and I are the remains of an unfulfilled legacy, heirs to a kingdom of stolen identities and ragged confusion.
Susan AbulhawaTag: identity confusion identity-politics
Death, in its certainty, is exacting its due respect and repose before it takes my hand.
Susan Abulhawathe reverse side of love is unbearable loss.
Susan AbulhawaTag: love loss love-and-loss
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