The Failed Experiment of Digital Fasting

1444 Hijri, 2023 Gregorian This year’s Ramadan has been an experiment in digital fasting. This explains (post-hoc) why I haven’t written on my website in some time, and why I’ve been writing but not sharing my work. At the start of the month, I intended to use social media less, post less, to pick up…

2020 Or the Year of twirling

Covid-19 has turned so much upside down. There has been the usual things — death, loneliness, public health catastrophe, paranoia and anxiety permeating from every pore. My daughter often twirls in the air and collapses from the effort. I feel like that is the metaphor for how we are spinning, so fast, again and again…