Diaries That Don't Concern Me

Author: Kholoud Sharaf

In the land of asylum, she awakens to find numerous open doors. She is the one who fled war, survived death, and is entangled in the net of memory. Between a reality where life unfolds naturally, and a memory laden with all the fear, violence, and oppression she experienced, she mentally reconstructs her narrative, breaking through the barriers of time and space, searching for meaning in her human existence. Her story thus becomes a tale for all wars, a story of the desire to live, the struggle for survival, and the search for wishes whose features were once drawn by a childhood lullaby. It is the story of the dead, the exiled, the refugees, the drowned, and the victims, narrated by the survivor.