Hyphenated Journey

Yasmeen returns back to her younger self, this time with a new perspective. Can we change our past to change our future?  

The Bird sang to himself and lamented about his cage.  He sang so loud his voice startled the wind.  And threw him so far outside his comfort zone  That he had no choice but to fly It was only then that he realized he was not a caged bird after all.  

Yasmeen starts off with a poem that she wrote that was inspired by the film she wrote and co-produced “A Star in the Desert” which follows the life of a young Iraqi boy in Baghdad on the eve of the first Gulf War, as he escapes into a fantastical reality on the search for his mis ...  عرض المزيد

Have we done everything we could to avoid war? Everything? Is there another possibility that could exist without the need to go to war? 

Yasmeen relives her recurring nightmare and what it feels like to push against the current of her inner and outer world.