In March 2020, the world stopped. Dubai - relentless, magnificent, never quiet - went very still. And in that stillness, something unexpected happened.

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People started becoming human again. Conversations across balconies between neighbours who had shared views of the Burj Khalifa for years without once sharing a sentence. A city too busy to notice itself, suddenly with nothing to do but notice.

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I wrote it down - as fiction, because fiction reaches emotional truths that reportage cannot. The short stories in Stillness In The Air are invented. The experiences that produced them are entirely real.

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Stillness In The Air was published in English in 2023. Respire, Résiste, Réinvente - the French edition - followed in 2024, because some truths travel better in a second language, and stillness deserved to exist in the language of Camus.

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Both editions are available on Amazon.

Stillness In The Air -Kindle, Paperback, Hardcover

Respire, Résiste, Réinvente - Kindle, Paperback, Hardcover

 

The world has become noisy again. The stories, and the stillness, remain. To be explored.