Articles #Memory and loss

Mosque of Shadows

In a neighborhood with ancient streets, where the copper walls breathe the rust of memories, lived a child named Nabil, nicknamed "the collector of shadows." Nabil would wander through the narrow alleys carrying a colored glass bottle, in which he secretly captured the shadows of passersby. The shadow of the sad old man, the laughing shadow of the saleswoman, and the shadows of the stray cats. He kept them all like secrets suspended in a cocoon of light.