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The sun was setting over the molokhia fields, painting leaves in shades of pink and orange. Nadia’s pencils scratched furiously, her fingertips stained as she raced to capture the clouds bleeding on the horizon.
She didn’t resent the molokhia, not really. Fatima al-Hamid’s discoveries had brought too much good to the world to truly hate. Relief she felt, certainly. Relief that Egypt’s discovery of bioengineered carbon sinks had turned the Southwest Asian and North African provinces from colonist-ravaged settlements to the independent countries they were today. Relief that the land repatriation acts had allowed her refugee parents to bring their children home.
But Nadia had been raised in rainy diaspora, and she’d grown up to the... Read more
