Permission to Escape Death

Fadilah
6 min readJan 9, 2024

I allowed myself to forget about Palestine: graduation, marriage, honeymoon and new beginnings against the backdrop of silence.

As life caught up with me, I stepped away. I logged out of the massacre and decided to live in luxurious freedom from tragedy.

GRADUATION

I graduate, wearing a symbol of resistance as I walk to collect my diploma. The keffiyeh causes me to sweat as I wear it under my precisely arranged robes. The robes symbolise the tradition of my university, 432 years old. Everything is black and white. I could be…

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Fadilah

Muslim. Attempting to seek and express reflections of knowledge and truth.