My mind’s eye filled with bodies after the metro bombing: the most horrific image of all. I didn’t need to imagine any more than that – thanks Yan Lio.
I scratched my head. This was how capitalism, which refused to set, was rising. It would triumph, just as death always triumphs in the end.
Yan Lio read an article in a Chinese newspaper: Israel celebrates the launch of the new Horizon 10 Satellite, to spy on dining room tables and bedrooms in the Middle East.
I was leafing through an Arabic newspaper, and paused to read an article unrelated to space, or even the earth itself (where we still haven’t solved existential questions like whether women should be allowed to drive). I didn’t dare translate it for Yan Lio. It concerned a field we Arabs have a monopoly on: the science of ‘Punishme
