Cultural Encounters!!

Between the educator as as a healer.... and as an oppressor

Between learning as an experience of spiritual ecstasy.... and as one of mental and psycholgical torture

Between knowledge as Sublimity.... and seudo-knowledge as vanity

Between the exam as "a round of cultural communication".... and as "a military parade"

Within the ample space between those cultural poles, we have to live.

But is it all about self-preservation in the midst of chaos, or about writing ourselves onto the Land??

Searching for serenity, I whisper to myself:

بسم الله الرحمن الرحيم

"فأما الزبد فيذهب جفاء وأما ما ينفع الناس فيمكث في الأرض"

صدق الله العظيم

And I feel quite serene.