Embracing Exile Conflicting Ideas believes she has found true

believes she has found true love

the looks – and the demons in his past

who doesn’t conform to the limited role that both society and her family have given her

ever since I observed the bird fly in the sky and toil in the fields

What was intended to be a brief visit for the five-year-old to Ismailia

Embracing Exile Conflicting Ideas believes she has found trueMaihud is an imaginary portrait of the human struggle: he wanders aimlessly from one exile to another, unable to reconcile his fragmented life. Like many in the same situation, he cannot embrace the warmth and safety exile is supposed to afford him. He only feels darkness wherever he goes.