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Maha Bawab Tourbah
Maha Bawab Tourbah

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Jul 24

What Serendipity?

Confrere. It was July 2006, I was sitting in my grandma’s living room in a far-flung village in the north of Lebanon, dealing with live news on the pounding of my beloved Beirut and simultaneously trying to make up my mind on whether to contact the embassy and flee or…

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What Serendipity?
What Serendipity?

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Jul 5

A Letter to a Confrere

How is it that, whenever you write and I read, I feel like I plunged into your sea of wisdom only to float right back up in a sense of calm and serenity? How do you do it? You and me, we share a lot — our background, education, social…

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A Letter to a Confrere
A Letter to a Confrere

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Feb 10

He Saw The Light And Ran

Loyal to his routine, took the usual route home, just as he always has for the past couple of decades. He has trodden these same streets so oftentimes, he no longer needed to see them. His feet carry him, seemingly unguided, from his office in the more modern part of…

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He Saw The Light And Ran
He Saw The Light And Ran

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Oct 6, 2022

The Peace Helmet

It’s a glorious Sunday morning here in Montpellier, South of France. Montpellier is reputed to have the greatest number of sunny days a year in all of France, over 300 days! In the center of this sun-bathed town, lies the Peyrou gardens. And every Sunday, the city organizes “Les Dimanches…

Life

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The Peace Helmet
The Peace Helmet
Life

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Oct 6, 2022

When My Brother Laughs

She sat on the kitchen table, her hands landed on her lap, palms facing the ceiling. Her eyes looked straight ahead, past the kitchen into the entrance hall and peered into the freshly punched hole. The hole seemed to be mocking her with its wide-open mouth and vicious teeth. She…

Life

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When My Brother Laughs
When My Brother Laughs
Life

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Apr 19, 2022

Killing a Dog

She lay there in drug induced peace while her mama stared at her face tracing the stitches that went from her left ear across her half her jaw and down her neck and up to her right cheek. Her beautiful six years old child is scarred for life, physically and…

Life

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Killing a Dog
Killing a Dog
Life

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Apr 15, 2022

Finding Home

We head out of the restaurant towards the tramway and pick up where we left off: “Finding home has been a lifelong preoccupation of mine. As you suggested, it has plenty to do with one’s community, friends, and family. But the reality is, for so many of us, we’re in…

Life

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Finding Home
Finding Home
Life

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Apr 12, 2022

The Homeless Man Who Offered Me Bread

There is rampant homelessness in Montpellier, South of France. Perhaps it’s the clement weather and relatively cheaper life, but maybe also due to the fact that the whole Hérault department of which Montpellier is the epicenter is one of the poorest in France. Not to compare miseries, but to give…

Life

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The Homeless Man Who Offered Me Bread
The Homeless Man Who Offered Me Bread
Life

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Apr 11, 2022

Encouraging Girls to Major in STEM Fields

Using my 20 years career in software engineering, as a girl and woman. — Recently, I joined a local association for “women in science and engineering”, here in France. One of the missions of this group is to encourage young girls to go into these fields, by direct interventions at schools. The idea being to talk face-to-face to the students about the importance of…

Life Lessons

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Encouraging Girls to Major in STEM Fields
Encouraging Girls to Major in STEM Fields
Life Lessons

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Apr 1, 2022

Forgive

Forgive, while your heart aches in your chest Forgive, while your wounds bleed to your death Forgive, while your rage soars in a daze Forgive, while your tears flood you…

Poetry

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Poetry

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Maha Bawab Tourbah

Maha Bawab Tourbah

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It’s that voice in my head. It needs a place to vent, and a space to invent.

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