Now that I’m older, I’m tired of doing this. I want to reconnect and remember the adan playing every morning, five times a day. Women wearing abayas and men wearing white thobes and checkered pink-and-black shemaghs. I’m detecting men wearing dresses, men with turbans, men with cloaks sitting in a garden. Where are you from?” Part of me feels like I’m not from one specific place, that I’m fragmented from different pieces.

Source: New York Times June 04, 2024 13:31 UTC