Lady Breeze

كم يمر الوقت ببطء شديد عندما تنتظر شيئا بشدة ... ويمر بسرعة البرق عندما لا تكون منتظر شيء ...

''Thirst for knowledge and greed for explanations never lead to a thinking inquiry. Curiosity is always the concealed arrogance of a self-consciousness that banks on a self-invented ratio and its rationality. The will to know does not will to abide in hope before what is worthy of thought.'' - An Inquirer

''If you can imagine Western civilization as a large circle with a series of satellite circles intersecting the larger one but disconnected from each other, diversality will be the project that connects the diverse subaltern satellites appropriating and transforming Western global designs. Diversality can be imagined as a new medievalism, a pluricentric world built on the ruins of ancient, non-Western cultures and civilizations with the debris of Western civilization.'' - Walter Mignolo

''It needs to be said that criticism modified in advance by labels like “Marxism” or “liberalism” is... an oxymoron. The history of thought, to say nothing of political movements, is extravagantly illustrative of how the dictum “solidarity before criticism” means the end of criticism.'' - Edward Said

Cairo - Downtown, 13.01.2016 Cairo, Egypt - Downtown -  Mohamed Mahmoud -  Bab Ellouk - DSB  I felt I want to have a walk in downtown. The sky was perfectly pure blue and the sun was beautifully warm shining. I walked with no intention nor a specific aim. I left my foot to lead the walk. And all of a sudden a storm of nostalgia and mixture of emotions hit me. All the memories, all the hard times, long nights and struggles were right infront of me. Now, I remember everything. It feels so real. It feels so fresh as if it was just yesterday. And here we are again. Who thought that this day would come again? And who thought that we would ever meet once again? I never thought that I will be standing here again, but this time without the bright blue skirt and the yellow blouse and fully aware of the adulthood.  With a surprise,  it was right in front of me. These dark orange walls that once used to look too high and it's bright green windows... but...

“This is the thing: When you hit 28 or 30, everything begins to divide. You can see very clearly two kinds of people. On one side, people who have used their 20s to learn and grow, to find… themselves and their dreams, people who know what works and what doesn’t, who have pushed through to become real live adults. Then there’s the other kind, who are hanging onto college, or high school even, with all their might. They’ve stayed in jobs they hate, because they’re too scared to get another one. They’ve stayed with men or women who are good but not great, because they don’t want to be lonely… they mean to develop intimate friendships, they mean to stop drinking like life is one big frat party. But they don’t do those things, so they live in an extended adolescence, no closer to adulthood than when they graduated. Don’t be like that. Don’t get stuck. Move, travel, take a class, take a risk. There is a season for wildness and a season for settledness, and this is neither. ...

Will it? Who said so, and who said that they said so, and how did they know? And just what is the truth anyway and where does it originate? Welcome to my world. It's as if the ground beneath my feet has quite simply vanished, evaporated. I just don't know what I know any more. Previously held beliefs, based on my own perception of truth, just seem to be falling away. I'm questioning where all my core beliefs came from and there is no solid ground. And that's even before getting into relative truth versus ultimate truth, and dimensional realities. I can't even be as clear as to say 'I know nothing', because maybe I know something, or everything, or nothing!!! And does it matter anyway? My list of uplifting soul moments got off to an easy start, then it started to require more thought. But I persevered and suddenly it was like creation itself burst through my mind and an overwhelming array of images and memories came flooding in. For the re...

Today marks a very special day. Like today, 5 years ago… 5th Anniversary. You probably don’t know about it, not because you are ignorant, but because our chances didn’t gave us a real opportunity yet. Like today, 5 years ago… we were there and it was the start of everything that you probably still haven’t figure it out yet... neither I. But it was and it will always be a perfect and beautiful coincidence that none of us have thought of it. The 6th of january will always be marked as an incredible yet an absolute lovely encounter. I'm thankful, and I'm blessed.