Alara Bekhan

To me, Jeff Buckley transformed twenty-first-century music without being alive to see it. I listen to him every single day, and I think the mind behind his music was profoundly beautiful. His songwriting was an extension of his extraordinary brain. He was music in the flesh. We live

Lately, I have been hyperfixated on movies. I have been watching one film a day and logging each one on Letterboxd. Recently, I came across an immortal classic: Carl Theodor Dreyer’s The Passion of Joan of Arc, a silent-era film that feels way ahead of its time. I

Having just finished watching Stanley Kubrick's masterpiece Eyes Wide Shut, I couldn't help but wonder about masks. The masks in the film were mostly used for anonymity purposes, but in my eyes, they also symbolize that much of social life is a performance. In many aspects

The biggest insecurity should not be a physical or tangible quality; it should be the traits that define a being's cognitive self, thoughts, and level of indifference, because those are the traits that primarily define the being. Therefore, my biggest insecurity is being easily defined. To be a