Christine Aziz, Author at Words from a Revolution

17th June 2017 / Christine Aziz / Uncategorised

LESS THAN BEFORE

Now, I love less than before. It’s the only way. I shape-shift into a stranger,…

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12th April 2017 / Christine Aziz / Uncategorised

MAYBE IN MY SLEEP……

It’s a wonderful night. Owls hoot to a waxing moon,the cat’s flaked out on the sofa…

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5th January 2017 / Christine Aziz / Uncategorised

I WRITE LOVE POEMS BECAUSE…..

I write love poems with a wayward hand. Somewhere in a corner, there’s an oblique shadow…

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3rd November 2016 / Christine Aziz / Uncategorised

REDS UNDER THE BED….

All these mumblings about Russians fiddling with American democracy had me searching for my winter…

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24th October 2016 / Christine Aziz / Uncategorised

STAND BY YOUR MAN

While in Egypt, I lived for several weeks with a Sudanese family. One day, one…

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16th October 2016 / Christine Aziz / Uncategorised

HUNTER’S MOON

Late last night I went down to the beach, called by a fat, full moon.…

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18th September 2016 / Christine Aziz / Uncategorised

BITCH-SPEAK

Loving the bitch word! I’ve been a motherfucking bitch, a mean bitch, a hot bitch,…

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14th September 2016 / Christine Aziz / Uncategorised

IN BED WITH DICTATORS – THE PERSONAL IS POLITICAL

On a hot dusty day in Cairo, General Abdel Fatteh Al-Sisi kicked out President…

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13th June 2016 / Christine Aziz / Uncategorised

WE ARE ALL DROWNING

Every day this awful confrontation of consumer flirtation, ego and the overwhelming darkness of humanitarian…

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13th June 2016 / Christine Aziz / Uncategorised

TRUMP AND ISIS IN THE SAME BED……..

When Omar Mateen, a mentally unstable homophobic American killed 49 people in Orlando with guns…

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26th February 2016 / Christine Aziz / Uncategorised

ICE DREAM

Painting by Rebecca Belmore You and I wait for a boat. We do not know…

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21st October 2015 / Christine Aziz / Uncategorised

THE END OF A LOVE AFFAIR

Having witnessed several rounds of voting in Egypt for new parliaments, new presidents, new constitutions,…

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3rd October 2015 / Christine Aziz / Uncategorised

THE DIFFERENCE BETWEEN EAST AND WEST

One thing I miss about Egypt are the bum washers (hose taps connected to the…

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5th August 2015 / Christine Aziz / Uncategorised

A POEM – LEAVING EGYPT

I have lived in Egypt for three years. It has been a turbulent time, both…

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6th July 2015 / Christine Aziz / Uncategorised

LETTER FROM AN UNBELIEVER TO A BELIEVER

Dear Believer, I have lived in your (predominantly Muslim) country for three years and during…

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Author: Christine Aziz