A Life After The War!

By Ibrahim Isam

Somewhere in the heart, there remains a life that the war never reached. A life we never truly said goodbye to, even though we have drifted far from it. Sometimes we return to it without knowing the way, and find a small door still open within us, leading us back to something we thought was far away. There, we quietly find ourselves again, and feel that what was broken outside could not reach everything within us. For a moment, we become who we once were, before the world became heavier than we could bear. We let our souls rest for a little while, and listen to that quiet part of us that still remembers what peace means.

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    Dr. Marwan Asmar holds a PhD from Leeds University and is a freelance writer specializing on the Middle East. He has worked as a journalist since the early 1990s in Jordan and the Gulf countries, and been widely published, including at Albawaba, Gulf News, Al Ghad, World Press Review and others.

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