MER Article Poems for the Women of Egypt The Future and the Ancestor The dead’s right grain ls woven in our flesh within the channels of the blood Sometimes we bend beneath the fullness of ancestors. But the present that shatters walls, banishes boundaries and invents the road to come, rings on. Right in the center of our lives liberty Nazik al-Mala’ika, Marzieh Ahmadi Ooskwi, Andrée Chedid • 1 min read