Suffering is not some big idea in the sky. It is a lived experience, a profound knowledge, scattered across the many sites of sorrow that I have witnessed. Feeling injustice is the only means of understanding justice: stories, both enchanting and heartbreaking, are the only means of knowing why our dignity matters. This then is a story among stories, a glimpse of our shared longing to redeem irredeemable loss, a tale of how wounds open us to search in darkness for the dawn of a better world.
-Payam Akhavan
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