“Winning Expo 2020 marked the city’s coronation and the world could no longer deny Dubai its rightful status as one of the era’s more illustrious cities. The people who flocked there were looking for some sort of magic to occur in their lives, and life on the beach under these concrete gazebos offered many blessings. Some found riches. Some found religion. Some found love. And some, most importantly of all, found themselves.”
Soroosh Shahrivar“And envy, envious of a time when the poet, the mystic, the scientist and the statesman were nobler than the merchant.”
Soroosh Shahrivar, The Rise of Shams“Death, one way or another, would breathe life into a new order of balance today.”
Soroosh Shahrivar, The Rise of Shams“He was Lenin in a Lamborghini. He was Gandhi with a gun”
Soroosh Shahrivar, The Rise of Shams“He had never met a girl who shot an arrow straighter than Cupid did”
Soroosh Shahrivar, The Rise of Shams“In searching for himself, he had come to understand that he was defined by selflessness”
Soroosh Shahrivar, The Rise of Shams“The sun from far gives life. But get close to it and it burns anything down to ashes”
Soroosh Shahrivar, The Rise of Shams“Love was supposed to be the easiest path to divinity”
Soroosh Shahrivar, The Rise of Shams“People needed proof that Utopia was nothing more than a theory, an illusion read in fictional stories.”
Soroosh Shahrivar, The Rise of Shams