Sonya Syed

Listening to such painful news from Brussels one is left without any words to express sorrow. It is upsetting to see how a developed and resourceful country like Belgium is completely chaotic and in the grips of tension and fear.     Nothing however can be taken out of the context, there is a chain of events that had lead the world to such a vulnerable situation. The problem of Palestine which have maintained status quo amongst the world leaders had ignited a chain reaction which spared no one. Lebanon, Palestine, Iraq, Syria, Turkey and other disturbances created within the Muslim world partly due to lack of unity amongst Muslim leaders and partly because of over-involvement of unconcerned international parties in our problems.        All these unresolved issues lead to sever injustice, and constant injustice is similar to a dormant volcano. Today what we witness before us is the eruption of the silent volcano. Everything is linked ...

Last night was a sleepless, anxious night. I felt the discomfort I have never felt before, and when I did get some sleep it was filled with strange dreams. In the long series of dreams I had, I remember couple of them. In one dream a man and woman, probably husband & wife, were sitting in a waiting room. The wife kept crying and her husband looked away. Then in another dream I saw a man slapping a woman and then that woman began crying. She yelled at that man, ‘you have hit me, now I will throw you out of my house, you cannot live with me anymore’. Then she was running from one corner to another trying to find someone- but no one was there. Entire series of these dreams I saw a woman anxiously moving around a house, it was crazy and chaotic. When I woke up I was seriously worried about those dreams, my heart and mind were heavy. I thought probably it was because of my caffeine intake. It felt as if I was on the edge ready to collapse. But why I was happy yesterday e...