Well, i hope my memory doesn’t fail me on the details but as i recall on that day, i was at the hospital with my mom and brother. My mom had at that time undergone a major surgery. We were sitting there with her in the room trying to keep her company. Naturally, we turned on the TV and there it was, smoke coming out of a building, later to be identified as one of the twin towers of the WTC. I didn’t understand what was exactly going on but then later I understood that some plane had crashed into the building. At first i thought it was coincidental, but then afterwards, to everybody’s shock, another plane struck the second building. It became quite clear that this was a deliberate attack. I remember the commotion in the hallway of the hospital and the neighboring patients trying to find out what was going on. Amidst the confusions, shock and speculations, theories started to come out… Later on the rest was history.

One thing for sure, ever since, it has been getting more and more difficult to be middle eastern…