Roya ElMedia | رؤية الميديا

By: Lojain Borhan - Roya El Media  Some books don’t simply tell a story—they stir something hidden beneath the surface. The Zahir and Aleph by Paulo Coelho are not ordinary novels; they are inner landscapes disguised as journeys across countries, memories, and moments. These works speak to a quieter kind of longing—the kind that doesn’t scream for answers, but quietly aches for understanding. The Zahir explores what happens when love turns into attachment, when absence becomes louder than presence, and when freedom becomes the ultimate act of love. It questions the illusion of control that often hides beneath the word “care,” and invites a deeper reflection on what it truly means to let someone go. Aleph dives into the unknown spaces of the soul—the lives lived before, the wounds carried silently across time, and the chance to confront them in moments of stillness and truth. It is not a story about the past, but about healing the present through remembering. Forgiveness is not ...

By Roya ElMedia – Written by Lojain Borhan Originally submitted as a school assignment on December 22, 2019 – Revisited and expanded in 2025 This reflection began as a high school assignment, written in Grade 11, on a quiet December afternoon in 2019. What started as a simple classroom task gradually unfolded into something deeper: a personal exploration of identity, pressure, and the quiet desire to reconnect with the self. At the time, life moved quickly. Between school demands, extracurricular activities, volunteer work, and the silent need to excel, it was easy to fall into a pattern of constant performance. Each task completed, each box checked, gave the illusion of success—yet something essential remained missing beneath the surface. That day, the act of writing became a pause. A moment of clarity amid the noise. Words emerged not to impress, but to express. Honest, simple, and slightly unsure, yet they carried the early seeds of awareness. In those lines, one truth stood ou...

Reflection by Roya ElMedia - Lojain Borhan Originally written on December 22, 2019 – Grade 11.  Revisited and expanded in 2025. I wrote the authentic model of this piece after I was in Grade 11, on a quiet December day that invited a mirrored image. Back then, I nevertheless found myself attempting to find solace in a world that frequently felt loud, rushed, and overwhelming. Writing has become my manner of creating a feel of things, of slowing down the noise to listen to what actually matters. Years later, as I revisit those phrases with greater enjoyment, greater softness, and greater understanding, I understand the message nevertheless holds: that pressure is a part of being human; however, so is compassion. And while we feature every different light through our storms, we start to heal in ways we by no means idea possible. This mirrored image is both a go-back and a continuation. A reminder to my more youthful self—and all of us—that we are now no longer supposed to undergo lif...