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Is New Architecture Worse Than Old Architecture
People without a background in architecture are often quick to express their distaste for current building designs; they contrast the...
Ibrahim Khalid
Dec 13, 20243 min read
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An Ingrained, Insignificant, Image in my Mind
I recall one time in 5th grade when for a couple of weeks our English teacher could not come to class. In her place, the school had sent...
Ibrahim Khalid
Aug 20, 20243 min read
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An Oasis Does Not Feel Alone- poem
Words I thi- nk: words I feel: Words I p- ray; I listen: No more Words, St- o- rm I rain let- ters let- ters I No. An oasis does not feel...
Ibrahim Khalid
Nov 23, 20221 min read
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The Mountain- poem
The steep mountain suffers every storm, every wave. He fights all wrath, all the foaming tide, only to wither after gallant sacrifice....
Ibrahim Khalid
Sep 30, 20221 min read
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Will They- poem
When the philosophers’ well is empty What will the children drink? When the red cheeks are cold What will the sparrows sing? When man has...
Ibrahim Khalid
Jul 27, 20221 min read
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Two Thousand More Years- Poem
Sun and steel. Here is a world with neither. Many Heros martyred feeding the phoenix, Yet here is the cheating king's boulder rolling...
Ibrahim Khalid
Jul 22, 20222 min read
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The Last Triumph of a Man Named Abd
He was very much dead, living on borrowed time: Death had allowed him time for one last task. Just enough strength to navigate the former...
Ibrahim Khalid
May 9, 20227 min read
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When the Last White Petals Fall- poem
When the last white petals fall And all hope of spring is gone, The birds in their nests will call Where have the white lilies gone? The...
Ibrahim Khalid
Oct 8, 20211 min read
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An Autumn Picnic- short story
The wind rattled the dying trees to their roots. Every breeze slaughtered many fair golden leaves like a sword slash. On the youngest and...
Ibrahim Khalid
Sep 21, 20214 min read
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I Knew a Girl- poem
I knew a girl, and she knew me; I loved her, but she never loved me. She had many friends, but was always lonely. She spent her days in...
Ibrahim Khalid
Sep 17, 20212 min read
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Butterflies
Stop. Start. Stop stop start start stop. Stop. What am I thinking? Silence. Sound sound Sound! Silence sound sound silence. I can’t hear!...
Ibrahim Khalid
Aug 4, 20211 min read
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A Mishap on the Way to Cairo- short story
The first brother consulted the second brother’s eyes for an answer that never came. They had been on a journey from Aswan to Cairo when...
Ibrahim Khalid
Dec 8, 20202 min read
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Mice Business
In a room in a house with no broom and a mouse- not mouse, mice- gloom souse whomever witnesses the creature within. When slithers of...
Ibrahim Khalid
Sep 15, 20202 min read
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Sleeping Sixteen
Act One Small bedroom in an apartment in New York City. TRISTEN, an adolescent boy, is sitting on the bottom bunk of a bunk bed, and...
Ibrahim Khalid
Jul 6, 20202 min read
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