Capitalism is like the law of the jungle with a few rules. There isn't another system that works for our society but left unchecked, capitalism can have a dehumanising effect.
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Empathy is about finding echoes of another person in yourself.
Islam is not a race, yet Islamophobia partakes of racist characteristics.
When I travel, I feel more like a nomad than a tourist.
Migration isn't a one-directional process; it's a colossal process that has been happening in all directions for thousands of years.
We recognise that, with time, every human being will cease being, will only have been. And so we seek to resist time. We rebel against it. We are drawn like lovers to the unreachable past, to imagined memories, to nostalgia.
Love places someone else in the centre of your being and your own self is blurred.