Author Archives

• Little Women: At the End of the Female Tether

  By The Elixir on 30 Mar 2020 • ( 0 )

  

  Suhail AlHammady “I just feel like…. I just feel like women (sighing), they have minds and they have souls as well as just hearts, and they got ambition; they’ve got talent as well as just beauty”, said Jo to her… Read More ›

• A Queen for 48 Hours

  By The Elixir on 30 Mar 2020 • ( 0 )

  

  Ann Hultberg “Honey child! Grab yourself an RC Cola and straw and wet your whistle,” perked up my grandma as I flew through the front door of her apartment, eager to spend the weekend. Calling me honey child, her pet… Read More ›

• All The Difference

  By The Elixir on 30 Mar 2020 • ( 0 )

  

  Maryam Qureshi Whenever I read Robert Frost’s poem, “The Road Not Taken”, I just feel it to be highly relevant and relatable to the situation that we often come across with while making a difficult decision or approaching to a different… Read More ›

• Tomato Soup

  By The Elixir on 30 Mar 2020 • ( 0 )

  

  Recipe by Sedra Ameri 10 Tomatoes 2 garlic 1 Chilie Pepper 1/4 cup of Olive Oil 1 Table Spoon of Salt 1 Table Spoon of Pepper 1 Table Spoon of Butter 1 Table Spoon of flour Preheat oven On a… Read More ›

• Celebrating Women’s Day with the World’s most Inspiring Women

  By The Elixir on 30 Mar 2020 • ( 0 )

  

  Shoutout to the women who fix another woman’s crown without telling the world it was crooked. Here is a Women’s Day Celebration with the those women, women who through unbreakable determination and an act of kindness have written their names… Read More ›

• TEDXSANA’AWOMEN: DON’T STOP UNTIL YOU REACH THE VERY TOP

  By The Elixir on 30 Mar 2020 • ( 0 )

  

  Esra’ AlNaggar She has wondered over and over again of what was happening behind those walls. In the morning, she’d hear the laughter and the running; sometimes the deafening silence. And in the afternoon, she would see them carried by… Read More ›

• Duende

  By The Elixir on 30 Mar 2020 • ( 0 )

  

  David Estringel Green is the taste of bitter rind that lingers on your fingertips,cutting through the sweetness of icebox orange smilesbursting on my tongue, lovingly fed,conjuring the salty sting of solitude’s imminence,as if a shade. How dreaded the tic-toc of… Read More ›

• The Audition

  By The Elixir on 30 Mar 2020 • ( 0 )

  

  Gary Beck “Next,” the stage manager called. I looked around to be sure it was my turn, and she repeated impatiently: “Next.” I took a deep breath, put on my combat face, stood up and walked to center stage, struggling… Read More ›

• Give me your shoulder to Lean on, he cried.

  By The Elixir on 30 Mar 2020 • ( 0 )

  

  Ogu Chukwuebuka Kizito A woman I loved more than my life now loves another. A man I once knew as a friend banned me from his presence. I had awoken with a loneliness more lonely than a deserted island. As… Read More ›

• LIFE AFTER THE 26TH OF MARCH: WHAT WAS IT LIKE TO BE IN YEMEN

  By The Elixir on 30 Mar 2020 • ( 0 )

  

  Esra’ AlNaggar 26th March 2020 The above date is of great importance to all Yemenis. How can it not when it marks year five of the Saudi-led war on Yemen. The media is still deaf and blind to all that… Read More ›