gender transformation · metamorphosis · faith · headscarf · language loss · arabic · marriage · devotion · body change · cultural immersion
The light is a golden blade, cutting across an alley of pale stone and hanging laundry. You come to with a gasp, the ground hard against your back. A deep, unsettling strangeness resides in your flesh, swathed in unfamiliar cloth that cinches your form and tightly binds your hair. A man's shadow falls over you, his presence both a question and an answer.