I had the opportunity to write about a new virtual reality experience that captures the memories of the Iraqi diaspora straight from their own recollections in what artist Basil Al-Rawi calls a “counterarchive.” Super cool project.
Read more
@newlinesmag
:
@vivafalastin
like how are these people not embarrassed? Talkin bout “save” like we’re dealing with an endangered species of elephant and not a fucking piece of space we designate for cars to sleep in 🙄
In the spring of 1968, hundreds of Columbia University students infamously took over campus buildings in support of the swelling civil rights and anti-war movements of the era. That uprising resulted in the school severing ties with the Institute for Defense Analyses. Now this 🙄
these cards are being handed out to student protestors. have been informed by columbia university admin that protestors face conduct violations. protest has remained peaceful & complied with instructions. anyone know if these cards are legal?
On the Global Day of Solidarity with Egypt's Political Prisoners, I'm wearing white, the same color that thousands of those detained in Egypt wear behind bars.
I join those at
#COP27
and around the world to say
#FreeAlaa
,
#FreeBaqer
,
#FreeOxygen
,
#FreeThemAll
.
"People always think of Mina as a Christian martyr but that is not true. Mina was a martyr of the poor. It was the plight of the impoverished that concerned him the most..."
@Can_Libertarian
what a truly moronic take. considering most industries have been affected by lockdowns, isolation, etc—HOW THE FUCK ELSE ARE PEOPLE SUPPOSED TO GENERATE AN INCOME?!
Israel “has wreaked more destruction than the razing of Syria’s Aleppo between 2012-2016, Ukraine’s Mariupol or, proportionally, the Allied bombing of Germany in World War II. It has killed more civilians than the U.S.-led coalition did in its three-year campaign against ISIS”
On this day 51 years ago Egyptian President Gamal Abdel Nasser died.
The official cause of death was a heart attack though rumours still persist of alleged poisonings (at the hands of the Russians, the Saudis, Israel, the US, etc.)
Over 5 million mourners marched at his burial
Twenty years on from the barbaric US-led invasion of Iraq, there is no shortage of punditry going around. Here is an insightful reminder from my dear friend
@Mamoudinijad
about some of the photographers who covered the invasion:
With much ado being made over Twitter's future, I think of this keynote speech
@alaa
delivered at the first ever RightsCon held in Silicone Valley in 2011. Alaa speaks frankly and presciently about the role that tech companies ought to play in human rights
The choice to portray Cleopatra as Black in an upcoming Netflix series has angered many Egyptian nationalists, but their protectiveness over a Greek conquering tyrant is ironic and the result of a complicated legacy, writes
@Sandmonkey
.
Commenting on Sisi’s remarks commemorating the 10 year anniversary of
#Jan25
@tekaldas
says:
“if the president has something nice to say, he can go visit the (revolutionaries) in jail, where he’s holding many of them”
Career diplomat Stuart Seldowitz who has worked at the State Department & served as National Security Advisor under President Obama berating a food cart vendor and telling him “killing 4000 Palestinian kids isn’t enough”…
Convocation day!!
Wish I hired someone to zaghrat for me & that we could order food while waiting & that my daddy was here to see this & that I left my hair curly & that I tried to get more funding before I graduated & & & &
“A local magazine for the world.”
Thrilled to be part of the new expansion at
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We are driven by extraordinary storytelling, sharp ideas, original scholarship and the curiosity to look beyond the daily news and headlines.
@hxhassan
@Talabat
Aw man this is so heartbreaking. I wish people would flex their basic empathy for others more instinctively than their need to make a spectacle of things
This is insane: a
@CANADALAND
investigation found that an anti-Trudeau “hate farm” which purports to be an “independent news organization” is actually a company based in Egypt and run by an Egyptian national named Mohammed Ashraf:
#DidYouKnow
Renowned civil rights activist, poet, and author Dr. Maya Angelou (1928-2014) lived in Egypt for almost two years. During her time in Cairo, Angelou worked as an associate editor at the weekly English-language newspaper The Arab Observer and even met Nelson Mandela.
diaspora poets be like:
“the
light brown ring
around
teta’s tea cup
the
dark dirt ring
around
giddo’s sandalled feet
a memory
eclipse
- shai & shebshebs in shubra”
...and mean it 😂
I wrote about how dropping the F bomb, dancing, and being seen drinking in public are all grave sins when women are the ones doing them
for
@newlinesmag
:
oh gosh. this piece from
@Maya__Salam
makes me feel so warm and nostalgic 🥺❤️❤️.
and who doesn’t wanna look at farah al qasimi’s photos all day.
excuse me while I go dig out my بطانية
‘Like a Warm Hug From an Angel’
@kshaheen
Seriously- I spent all of 18 months in Egypt and know that savory/meat-based uses for the bird-nest kunafa pastry is a thing. How the hell do I know more about this than you?
So so proud of
@rfrwi
, whose been nominated in TWO categories for her groundbreaking story about
@CBCNews
bias against Palestine.
You can read it here:
#ICYMI
: Congratulations to
@ReviewofJourn
and the students who have been nominated for several COPA's, including Best Podcast (Academic), Best Investigative Article (Consumer), Best Multicultural Story (Academic) and more!
Learn more about the finalists:
“The fact that many of us are not quick to jump onto the Harris bandwagon should show just how desperate we are for the violence to end in Gaza. The reality is that the Harris administration needs to earn our votes.”
@emanabdelhadi
on this week’s episode
I hate in Egyptian movies/TV when they have like a rogue reporter type character whose investigating or rebelling against authorities somehow and they live in a huge, beautiful well-decorated flat in Maadi instead of like, a prison cell...
Today is
#NationalDrinkWineDay
and in celebration I am sharing this fascinating piece by
@alexjrowell
about early Arab poets’ love for wine and the entire language they gifted us for the enjoyment of it.
@newlinesmag
Horrible news coming out of Greece of yet another boat sinking off the coast, with dozens of migrants drowned.
I think of this harrowing essay by
@Anna_Pantelia
, who reflects on the unequal treatment of refugees after witnessing a similar tragedy:
@CP24
This headline is a lie, as the story indicates: “Tims is promising four retro doughnuts will reappear for a limited time on its menu in 2024 — though it's staying tight-lipped on the other three for now.”
Last night at the Oilers game, The Bearhead Sisters (Paul First Nation) performed a special rendition of O Canada in the Stoney Nakoda language, holding kuffiyehs in solidarity with Palestine
"Until Indian society reckons with the idea that rape is a larger epidemic it has to deal with, cases like the one in Kolkata will be discussed as an anomaly & not the norm."
@bysurbhigupta
's sobering analysis of the persistence of rape culture in India:
Actually
@nytimes
, International Law dictates that the occupying force Israel is in fact responsible for the well-being of Palestinians. Nice try though.
Israel's vaccine donations to faraway countries have angered Palestinians who say Israel is responsible for the well-being of Palestinians in the occupied territories, where vaccines are scarce
breaking from normal form, I am so l excited to say:
I have finally applied (& been ACCEPTED?!?) to journalism school!
Just wow. If you know, you know. ❤️
I’m very grateful I get to work on such interesting and important assignments
@newlinesmag
, like this podcast:
Catfishing a Killer — with Uğur Ümit Üngör and Annsar Shahhoud
A few weeks ago a classmate on zoom asked me if there was anywhere with water I could go to escape egyptian heat before catching herself and saying, “wait it’s desert, right?”
Me in Marsa Matrouh:
“I belong to a generation of Egyptians whose journalists were born from the womb of a revolution, our work fueled by a vision for social justice ignited during the Arab Spring…We Arab journalists in exile find our encounters with Western disdain of activist journalism puzzling.”
Palestinian journalists expose how 'objectivity' is used to silence them. Arab journalists are often perceived in the West as unreliable storytellers of their own struggles.
However you feel about the letter, whether you're one of the 500 journalists who signed or not: one thing it has done is force a conversation on an issue so taboo that to even point out that taboo and the silence around it is enough to label you 'biased' or get you 'noticed.'
There is no better feeling right now than walking around downtown D.C. and spotting Palestinian flags and kuffiyas and protest signs all over, people stopping to greet one another and ask where we’ve come from all to be here for one shared purpose…
Protests in support of Palestine:
LIVE FROM MONTREAL
(via @ palestinianyouthmovement on IG)
Toronto don’t forget, this evening @ 7 PM @ Nathan Phillips Sq.
Yosif Al-Hasnawi, 19, was shot on Dec. 2 near his mosque after intervening to help an old man. It took paramedics 38 minutes from the time they arrived to transport him to hospital.
Witnesses say paramedics told him he was acting, and that he'd been shot by a pellet gun.
just noticed this is the first time I’ve been back home since my father passed & probably that’s why so much of egypt is making me emotional. he always made these visits so special & lived life in toronto as though it were just a transitory phase between these trips back.
Mahmoud Darwish lays flowers at the graves of Palestinians killed in the 1982 Sabra and Shatila massacre in the Beirut, accompanied by Marcel Khalife and Elias Khoury
(12 November 1999)
Friends,
I’m looking for anyone who is on the ground in Imbaba and was present during the
#churchfire
at Abu Sifin yesterday who can speak to a Canadian publication. If you know anyone in the area who is okay with that, please connect
“We didn't want the Americans to prevail and the country to be invaded, and, on the other hand, we didn't want Saddam to win. It's very hard to get this point to someone who has not been born and bred under a dictatorship.”
-
@RashaAlAqeedi
📢 NEW EVENT: Join us Wed, March 9 for a panel on the aftermath of the
#Sudancoup
and ongoing resistance efforts with TIMEP's
@MuzanAlneel
,
@minlayla77
, Dr. Bakry Elmedni,
@Sarajalilo
, and moderated by Isma'il Kushkush.
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NEW: I wrote about the the National Union of Syrian Students' role in detaining & torturing students during the uprising & how the regime infiltrates and controls civil society institutions to consolidate power & silence critics, for
@alpheratzmag
Newly released English translation of
@patrickzaki1
’s article (which led to his previous torture and imprisonment and recent sentencing):
Forced Migration, Murder, and More: A Week in the Life of Egypt’s Copts - Dara’s
Hot off the press, my story for the latest issue of
@ReviewofJourn
:
For generations, the
@TorontoStar
has had a reputation as a progressive paper. But does its newsroom culture live up to its own ideals?
Star-Struck
This is a thorough and damning piece and it's good to see it making the rounds. I also want to point out that none of this scrutiny is new. Two years ago
@rfrwi
published this piece (online and in print) for
@ReviewofJourn
A CBC producer is lifting the veil on how the broadcaster whitewashed Israel’s horrors in Gaza.
In a tell-all essay, she describes the inner workings of newsrooms where double standards and biases sidelined the truth—before she resigned in protest.
i watched this beautiful documentary by egyptian filmmaker
@ShehabAbdlHafez
last night as part of
#TAF2022
.
Heart-wrenching, powerful story about love, loss, and (re)memory
The novel that the Hamas leader Yahya Sinwar wrote in prison 20 years ago helps to reveal both his perspective on the Palestinian independence struggle and his personal story. Amira Howeidy explores the fiction and the reality for
@newlinesmag
.
While the world’s attention is focused on Gaza, extremist Israeli settlers are, with their government’s complicity, violently annexing the West Bank. Nicolas Cortes tells the story of four villages in the South Hebron Hills for
@newlinesmag
.
Andrew Tate's fanbase among Muslim men is growing, despite human trafficking allegations. I spoke to folks for
@cnni
, who say the influencer exploits a disenfranchised section of society, while promoting a warped version of Islam for internet popularity.
Had a wonderful day meeting the best team members ever in person, working out of the office space and getting to talk more about the future of
@newlinesmag
💛
“I am here; I am seeing it for myself. I understand so much more, and yet I find myself even more incapable of articulating the extent of what I am witnessing.”
@IamArwaDamon
reports from Gaza