“The current war on Gaza has since silenced almost 35,000 voices, shut 35,000 eyes and maimed thousands more, many of whom no longer possess the ability for expression. Yet art has a way of transcending, even flourishing, through pain; one even dares to say that pain is its greatest muse, and in Palestine pain has become part of everyday life.” ArtWarPoetryIsraelWritersFreedom Of SpeechMusePalestineGaza Author:Aysha Taryam
“Israel’s well documented systematic targeting of truth seekers is a grave crime against humanity. It is an inexcusable eradication of a people’s interaction with the hideousness of their reality.” ArtWarIsraelWritersFreedom Of SpeechPalestineGaza Author:Aysha Taryam
“Humanity is and must remain unconditional in the face of political, financial and personal gain.” WarSufferingHumanityHuman RightsHumanitarianAysha Taryam Author:Aysha Taryam
“In a sea of human beings, it is difficult, at times even impossible, to see the human as being.” WarBodyHumanityHuman BeingsSeaIdentityDignityInjusticeHuman RightsMigrationCasualtiesRefugeesRefugee CrisisCasualties Of War Author:Aysha Taryam
“Yet the true significance of war lies not only in its destruction, but in its revelations. War strips away diplomatic theatre and exposes the underlying architecture of alliances — their strength, their limits, and their sincerity.” WarAlliesDiplomacy Author:Aysha Taryam
“Equating a pro-Palestinian stance to an anti-Semitic one is rendering the cause undignified by smearing it with an unjustifiable hatred for another. It is a cowardly way out of a real debate and a productive dialogue.” WarDemocracyIsraelProtestPalestineGazaAntisemitism Author:Aysha Taryam
“The words have forasken us but we continue to write because the brave souls of Gaza continue to bleed. It is as if we are part of an endless funeral procession. The grief comes in waves, it ebbs and flows but mostly it crashes onto our hearts with great force and leaves us breathless. Helpless.” WarGriefIsraelGenocidePalestineGazaAysha TaryamSurvivor Guilt Author:Aysha Taryam
“Here lies the truth of this grave injustice. Those who survive are far more gone that those who perished.” WarInjusticeTraumaPtsdAysha Taryam Author:Aysha Taryam
“Wars survived leave lasting scars and genocides witnessed will never let you go.” WarGenocidePtsdAysha Taryam Author:Aysha Taryam
“History will remember this war on Palestinian civilians and their displacement as the moment the world woke up to the Zionist plans of occupation and expansion.” WarIsraelGenocidePalestineGazaZionismAysha Taryam Author:Aysha Taryam
“Eradicating ‘terrorism’ is one vague mission we have heard repeated in this region, yet history has shown that America and its Western allies have used this excuse to wage massive wars only to never actually achieve this so-called mission.” WarAmericaTerrorTerrorismUnited States Of AmericaWar On TerrorAysha Taryam Author:Aysha Taryam
“One sits at her desk as the world outside catches fire and cities continue to burn, people continue to run for their lives - refuge is unattainable but we cannot tell them that, for the cruelest thing a helpless person could do is to tell those in a tragedy that hope, although visits them, is a stingy guest who brings with it nothing else, no rescue or cure.” WarHopePeaceTragedyCrisisAysha Taryam Author:Aysha Taryam
“When an entire segment of the world is burned and reduced to a lawless battleground for thugs and mercenaries, a land where government does not exist, where the slate of history is being wiped out and hope has drowned in gallons of innocent blood, the only respite comes in the form of the open seas and what lies beyond the horizon. So ships are boarded and pain is tolerated just a little while longer.” WarPoliticsMiddle EastAfricaRefugeeUnited NationsPolitical PhilosophyEuropean UnionArab SpringMigrant Author:Aysha Taryam
“People whose lives were determined for them by a group of politicians whose severing, dissecting and reattaching of their lands has turned their world into a monster that not even its creator can control.” WarPoliticsMiddle EastRefugeeArab SpringMigrant Author:Aysha Taryam
“As politicians weigh courses of action against their political agendas the death toll weighs heavy on the conscience of the world. The once vibrant Syrian streets are now haunted by the souls of the innocent and the historic monuments that told of an unrivalled Arab civilisation no longer stand tall.” WarDeathHistoryMiddle EastSyriaRefugeeArab SpringArabsSyrian Civil WarLevant Author:Aysha Taryam
“When the contradictions weigh on you, know that this has never been a war of rights and wrongs, of what is just and what is fair. Never has it been a war of political logic or historic sense. All it ever was and will ever be is a war of semantics that altered, redefined and constructed today’s reality and tomorrow’s path.” WarIsraelPalestineZionistGazaZionismAysha TaryamGaza StripGaza WarIsrael Palestinian Conflict Author:Aysha Taryam
“The cost of war is like an immeasurable tremor that knows no borders, its shockwaves reverberating across the world resulting in universal suffering.” WarSufferingIraqWorld War IiMiddle EastSyriaWorld PeaceWorld War 2LibyaCost Of WarWorld SufferingEarthquakeTremor Author:Aysha Taryam