Orient Gallery would like to invite you to Reem Yassouf’s Exhibition “Bedtime Story”
On Oct. 5, at 6:00pm
Exhibition will continue till Oct. 20
Sat- Fri from 10:00am – 7:00pm

حكاية قبلَ النوم
لنْ أَرويَّ لكمْ حكايةَ ما قبل النوم ..
فحكاياتي أَصبحتْ على قصاصات ٍ من ورقٍ صغير، سَكَنَتْها وجوهٌ وأجسادٌ وأصواتٌ، رَفضتْ دخولَ كابوسنا اليومي ..
ورَفضتْ أَنْ ترى الوحشَ، وقَدْ ابتلعَ جنيّات أُمنياتنا المُلوّنة، وحشٌ قَدْ اختطفَ كلّ ابتسامةٍ من وجوهِ أطفالي ،
وحشٌ غيَّرَ لونَ الأرضِ ، وغيَّرَ صوتَ أمّي وأبي..
وكلّ رائحةِ من جدةٍ حنونة ..
فَأخذتُ قُصاصاتي ونَثرتُها للعصافير، ومِنها ما وَضَعْتُهُ تحتَ وسادتي، ووسادةَ أَطفالي، لتكونَ نافذةً لنورٍ، في الغرفةِ المُعتمة ،
فهناك ..
ثمة أحبةٌ تَنتَظِرنا
BEDTIME STORY
I will not tell you a bedtime story,
All my tales are now on tiny bits of paper,
Bits of paper, inhabited by faces, bodies and voices
Of those who refused to enter our daily nightmare,
They refused to see the monster who swallowed the fairies of our colored wishes,
A monster that kidnapped every smile from the faces of my children,
Every scent of a loving grandmother,
A monster that changed the color of the earth,
Changed the voices of my father and my mother,
So, I took my tiny bits of paper and threw them for the birds,
Some, I put under my pillow, some under the pillow of my children ,
Hoping it could be a window of light in the darkened room,
Because there,
we have loved ones that are waiting for us .