Language

“"سجل !

انا عربي

انا اسم بلا لقب" p77 (Rana's diaries)

“اهلا وسهلا” p78 (Rana's diaries)

لاجئ" p84
"VOILA LA RAGE QUI EFFRAIE LA SOCIETE CIVILISEE!" p86

« لاجئ  Ref.u.gee / refyoo'jé/ Noun: a person forced to leave their country in order to escape war, persecution, or natural disaster. Synonyms: fugitive, exile, displaced person, asylum seeker, boat people. So many words. Why do you need so many words? What will I say if, when, someone asks? What will I tell them I am? I lash out at border officials, at men who push me too far, at women in village centers who spit at me in their foreign tongues. I use my words on them all, abusing them in Arabic and English and all the other languages I’ve picked up along the way—Kurdish and Turkish and French and a smattering of Greek.” p89

“Asylum seeker Yes: here, at last, is some truth. Asylum. Ref.uge / refyooj/ from the Latin re- fugere, re- “back” and fugere “flee.” Noun: a condition of being safe or sheltered from pursuit, danger, or trouble. The synonyms here are more innocuous. They carry no judgment—shelter, protection, safety, security, sanctuary.” p90

““Ya Allah, ihfithna min al’shar. Innaka raheemun ‘ath-, eem,” the grandmother began to pray, before the husband shushed her.”p206

"blut und boden".(blood and soil in German) p225

“If you believe as Muslims do, the Quran is the word of God, undiluted and uncorrupted. It is the miracle sent to a people who found divinity in language, who marveled at the potency of oratory, who thought words to be totems of power.”p275