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In Iraq, after a thousand and one nights, someone will talk to someone else. Markets will open for regular customers. Small feet will tickle the giant feet of the Tigris. Gulls will spread their wings and no one will fire at them. Women will walk the streets without looking back in fear. Men will give their real names without putting their lives at risk. Children will go to school and come home again. Chickens in the villages won’t peck at human flesh on the grass. Disputes will take place without any explosives. A cloud will pass over cars heading to work as usual. A hand will wave to someone leaving or returning. The sunrise will be the same for those who wake and those never will. And every moment something ordinary will happen under the sun. 

– Dunya Mikhail, The Iraqi Nights.

“العالم ليس مثل أمك،تغضب عليها وتصرخ في وجهها في النهار،وفي نهاية اليوم تناديك للعشاء.العالم سيتركك تموت جوعاً. This world isn’t like your mother. You get angry and yell at her during the day, but at the end of the day, she calls you for dinner. The world will leave you starve to death.”

— zaidalhouraniquotes