Reluctantly, I dance. December 23, 2022 “I need God.” These were the words allegedly whispered by the Lebanese dancer, Dany Bustros, to her confidante before she tragically took her own life with a bullet. In the moments leading up to that fateful shot, Dany found herself besieged by financial distress stemming from accumulated losses…
Wealth created by women, claimed by men January 24, 2023 “From 2017 until 2022, he traveled to Qatar. He made around one million Egyptian pounds [approximately $33,000], while I’m stuck here with the children. He used to come every two or three years without realizing the hardships I faced as he worked abroad, which…
The specter of aging that haunts me in my mid-twenties May 31, 2023 Yesterday, I visited my neighbor, a young woman in her twenties—one year older than me—and a mother of three. After welcoming my mother, sister, and me into her home, I was shocked to hear her say to my mom, “May God…
Yasmina Hilal, On Self-Love, Mothers, and Grandmothers April 13, 2023 Yasmina couldn’t truly love herself until she felt that she was an extension of her mother and grandmother. Thus, her latest artwork, ‘I See Myself in You,’ was born. Yasmina sits on a white bed in front of a cotton-candy pink wall. “My grandmother…
The struggles of my little great one October 16, 2022 I was twenty-nine years old, carrying my first child, when I learned that I was expecting a daughter. I couldn’t explain the mixture of conflicting emotions between love and worry. Now, eleven years later, I realize that in my little one, I see my past,…