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@na5leh

9 months

bombing Yemen on the first day of the ICJ case as if they are not constantly telling on themselves

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Plestia being forced into exile from Gaza to protect her family because of israel’s systematic targeting journalists. I don’t know what is to be said that we have not said before.

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Mama’s latest tatreez creation…8 hours every day for 8 months 🤍🇵🇸🤍

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@na5leh

4 years

my brother passed away this morning, four days after his 25th birthday. if you could please read al fatiha for him, my family and I would appreciate it.

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@na5leh

10 months

do you understand the severity of even having to write this, even more so for the world to let it happen! to let it reach this stage?!!!!

Hamzé Attar

@hamzattar

10 months

Please, do not share the video of the cat eating the corpses. those are our friends and families. we don't know the cat is eating which one of them. من فضلكم لا تشاركوا فيديو القطة وهي تأكل الجثث. هؤلاء هم أصدقاؤنا وعائلاتنا. لا نعرف تلك القطة تأكل من منهم.

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@na5leh

10 months

a global strike in the US alone would cause a ceasefire. instead we are entering the third month of genocide and nearing the 76th year of the occupation of Palestinians and Palestine.

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@na5leh

6 months

just gave $15, who will match me or share around?

‏Help Bring My Autistic Brother Safely out of Gaza, organized by Abdelrahman Alimari

Dear Friends, I am a final year medical student in Egypt… Abdelrahman Alimari needs your support for ‏Help Bring My Autistic Brother Safely out of Gaza

www.gofundme.com

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@na5leh

1 year

head of @UNICEF Catherine Russells is married to the CEO of Blackrock, supplier of weapons and crude oil, Thomas Donilon. again: these institutions do not care for us. we are to be killed and used.

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@na5leh

11 months

this dystopian reality we are in is hanging on by a thread. all we need to do is pluck. oops. new worlds opening. we don’t have to live like this. this is not the pinnacle of humanity. there is a better world for us so in reach.

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1 year

@lilearthquakess love also how the paper is clean and crisp. also love the sheer brilliance of carrying ‘top secret plans’ in ur pocket like…at least try to lie better?

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@na5leh

9 months

‘reflecting a change in war strategy’ no you decimated the ministry and hospitals so the death toll could no longer be counted. may god damn you all.

Jehad Abusalim جهاد أبو سليم

@JehadAbusalim

9 months

A @nytimes headline this morning:

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@na5leh

10 months

‘no we’re natives’ listing every country but palestine meanwhile my literal mother can go up seven generations in one city in the west bank alone. ok. brain cells NOT rotting.

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@taraxrh

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No, we’re natives

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@samah_fadil seeing them in a kuffiyeh like 🤡🤮

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@na5leh

10 months

@ireallyhateyou Common thieves, from their grandparents to now.

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@na5leh

10 months

so funny how people are so accustomed to only the imperial core and simply cannot truly imagine any of us who exist beyond it with agency. talking shit about a strike not being coordinated when multiple ‘periphery’ cities/countries shut down entirely as per the demand.

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@na5leh

4 years

june jordan. i’ve been thinking ab this poem since i was sixteen.

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@na5leh

3 years

I know we know this but reducing protests in Jordan + Lebanon as just solidarity isn’t fair. these are Palestinians who have been displaced for generations, fighting for our return, for justice & for our people. fsh ha2 to simplify them into solidarity wa bas. msh ardeh.

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@na5leh

10 months

nothing will ever mitigate the amount of unbearable horror and grief in this genocide. I don’t even know why I’m tweeting this. I saw a photo of a dead child today and bawled my eyes out. surreal watching people live normally, as if anyone can breathe through this horror.

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@na5leh

4 years

habib albi. we love you beyond comprehension. the most kind hearted. you deserve an eternity of peace.

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@na5leh

9 months

shutting down material economy and refusing to commit labour, especially in weapons industry and shipping, terrifies death-makers more than a polite permitted protest. unions n workers are vital in mobilisation in literally forcing the economy to halt. asking the ‘global south’

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@na5leh

11 months

how to find full time work that somehow does not support the genocide of ur people?

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@na5leh

7 months

there is no such thing as an innocent zionist 🤍

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@na5leh

10 months

Just to illustrate the disproportion: zionist settlers get 300 litres per day per person.

بلدية غزة - Municipality of Gaza

@munigaza

10 months

People in Gaza are getting less than 1L of water daily for all uses (drinking, cooking, personal needs, etc..) while the international standards are at least 120L per person daily.

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@na5leh

10 months

need to be honest, while the economy collapses around us the only place my friends and I hang out now is the library and we’ve been amazed by how many resources it has and what we’ve been missing out on

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@na5leh

10 months

they literally want us to thank them for not killing us, all the while they’re still living on our land.

sippin on that 🇵🇸

@vivafalastin

10 months

i find it genuinely ludicrous that people think it’s heroic to refuse joining an occupying army. is it unfortunately not the norm, and therefore brave? sure. but heroic? good lord, is the bar so low?

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@na5leh

11 months

continually amazed at people and friends who ask me how I am doing as if I can even explain. no I don’t want to be out late. no I don’t want to party. no I don’t want shit. I can’t even think straight most days and you want me to balance genocide and my old life?

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@na5leh

10 months

@cnnipr @clarissaward Rare???? You have no shame. Over 87 Palestinian journalists have been murdered for reporting with integrity and truth — concepts so foreign to you — and you think you’ve done something invincible here? All you ever had to do was listen to Palestinians when we talk!!!

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@na5leh

1 year

one solution, one nation: free palestine from the river to the sea. we will not be expelled and massacred for sick freaks to eat our land. you are not indigenous and you have no right to touch what our ancestors spent centuries cultivating and nurturing.

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@na5leh

5 years

will die on the hill that cutting fruit for someone u love is intimate

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@na5leh

1 year

can I get recommendations for Palestinian children books (preferably in English)?

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@na5leh

3 years

spring in jordan

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@na5leh

11 months

but even rome fell. all empires fall. palestine has shown ones us again: palestine frees us, we do not free palestine. we are from the land and for the land. we do not own, do not control, do not demand. our land loves us. nurtures us. cares for us. i don’t know what to say.

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@na5leh

9 months

to be the only ones committed to practical resistance is not fair. we are the ones labouring under the conditions empire has imprisoned us in and still we push more than the average westerner. yes our resistance will liberate us, but what have you done while living &

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@na5leh

4 years

what’s up today we went to salt

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@na5leh

1 year

honestly at this point the tactics used by @PalActionUSA should be the immediate standard. the marches are not enough. boycott is so vital, but we need to literally severe the ability to send weapons of mass destruction out.

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@na5leh

10 months

the first month I saw language dead & useless. I found pockets of resistance & remembered the Six saying ‘we have shown the occupation is an illusion of mere dust.’ today I poured over Dr. Refaat’s work & feel a fundamental commitment as a Palestinian writer that will outlive me.

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@na5leh

10 months

unions becoming bastardised entities of the state & capital; a purposeful lack of funding for public education; a intentional decimation of the healthcare system; and the social crises in the US have made sure that Americans do not have the will to meaningfully enact change

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@na5leh

11 months

the zionist state is a european colonial project. biological warfare? smallpox. spanish influenza. covid. starvation? they hunted the buffalo into extinction. ethnostates can only be fascist; can only function on genocide and apartheid. we as palestinians pay for europe’s guilt.

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@na5leh

11 months

‘The documentation is not for collecting sympathy from the world but to revive our Palestinian case. To tell the world that we have a land that Israel stole from us. And to make our martyrs follow the war criminals in their dreams.’

NO NIIN

@noniinmagazine

11 months

Noura Selmi, a writer and translator from Gaza, has written us an account of her experience living in the south of Gaza amid Israel’s unfolding genocide of Palestinians. Please read and share!

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@na5leh

4 years

hi! a new poem of mine is now out! ab museums / white cubes, living under the settler colonial gaze + violence and mostly, being a Palestinian woman in these layers. you can read it here alongside sm other amazing works! big TY to the team at SH:

art exhibition: west bank girl on fire

isn’t that what we imagine? no missing skin or the sovereignty of fighter jets.

strangehorizons.com

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@na5leh

8 months

I hope every single monster who supports this death cult is haunted and tormented. May they never find peace or mercy. May they be the fire of hell. May every curse placed on Palestinians is given back onto them tenfold.

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@na5leh

9 months

breathing the benefits of our deaths inside the swell of empire itself? bffr.

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@na5leh

1 year

@emanyxo he’s speaking to us

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@na5leh

3 years

جبل عمان

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@na5leh

10 months

where would their power & money go if you deem it worthless? if you refuse to participate in long dead systems? if you realise you are very much a part of the social fabric destroying this world? if you truly believe in radical love & care & realise we owe each other everything.

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@na5leh

11 months

the point is not to negotiate oppressors’ language and tools, but to make reality so untenable and uncomfortable for them. dismantle it all. we are all fugitives in this state.

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@na5leh

8 months

every day u think this world cannot get worse and empire proves it still has one more day left in its decaying, bitter hands. let us break its hands.

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@na5leh

1 year

Scoundrel Times reached out to me for work in support of Palestine. After being told by trusted Palestinian comrades that this journal is publishing ‘crying and colonising’ apologia and propaganda, I retracted my work and sent forward a letter, attached below. Boycott Scoundrel.

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@na5leh

4 years

I am tired of you being dead. I miss you the most when I am so alive. I forget you are dead & think you are on holiday. I walk with your photograph engraved. I keep looking for you. in the flowers, the windows, the sidewalks. I see you when I stir the tea leaves & sit in the sun.

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@na5leh

10 months

I believe in the imperative & immediate need to dismantle these systems & end capitalism and its white superiority. but fuck is it pathetic to watch the literal residents inside the very material belly of the beast only able to call their reps, if even that.

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@na5leh

10 months

this is what you two sides freaks are for btw. this is who you want us to befriend & care for, as if it is normal to live side by side with our oppressor. as if it’s possible to look them in the face & not see every missile they signed, every home stolen & looted, every execution

Lana Tatour

@Lana_Tatour

10 months

This is by Israel’s representative to the UN. #2 : dispossessing and recolonising Palestinian land. #4 : expulsion of the population. Ethnic cleansing. Classic settler colonialism. This is all about land and population.

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@na5leh

9 months

@alitlstrawberry @MyNrhindi also co-wrote a call to boycott the Poetry Foundation for its silence and neutrality that you can check out here: 🤍🇵🇸🤍

TAKING SIDES: TO THE BOARD OF THE POETRY FOUNDATION

To sign, follow this link: https://docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1FAIpQLScZqKDVeH4F-9_SjtFYcFdQ6sNpc_LsTA9PFI0LhYLEDVeX9w/viewform TO THE BOARD OF POETRY FOUNDATION AND THE EDITORS OF POETRY We, the...

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@na5leh

4 years

how strange in grief to forget. I forget my brother isn’t alive and laugh to myself about something, to turn around expecting him to climb onto the roof with me and then I remember. again and again reminding myself.

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@na5leh

4 years

no 7assad 🧿🧿🧿

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@na5leh

7 months

mind you, all of these crimes are committed by people who not only form a colony atop of Palestine but return to other states - France, US, Canada, Germany, etc - and they exist alongside you in your daily life. rapists, murderers, thieves surrounding normal civilians.

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@trhxianl

7 months

Nothing “Israel” ever does is the worst that could happen nor the worst that it can do. Literally, nothing. Every action of “Israel” is a tiny bit worse than its last to see if anyone will stop it knowing very well nobody in the West will. So “Israel” goes on to test the waters.

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@na5leh

4 years

what is hell besides being an arab woman

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@na5leh

3 years

may grief be banished, may those in grief find respite, may those who passed be content, may the next be better than this.

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@na5leh

1 year

thanks for giving ur staff their pen back

Kundiman

@kundimanforever

1 year

Kundiman stands in solidarity with Palestinians and their struggle for justice, liberation, and sovereignty. We unequivocally condemn the ongoing occupation of and genocide in Palestine.

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@na5leh

9 months

“‘Even if somebody helps us repair the damage and plants new trees, who will give me those years back that I spent nurturing them and supporting them to grow?’ he snapped back at me. ‘Who will pay for the 20 years we have lost?’”

Leslie Jamison

@lsjamison

9 months

I'll be sharing a few words from others, including an excerpt of this essay by Yousef Dawas, killed in an airstrike on October 14.

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@na5leh

10 months

instead live under zealot, greedy pundits with the binary of either assimilating or apathy. I understand the US is stolen land and we are all settlers here.

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@na5leh

6 years

@Doughbvy deadass bee

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@na5leh

3 years

"The Workers Love Palestine" by Zaina Alsous

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@na5leh

10 months

it will actually damn you

Saul Williams

@SaulWilliams

10 months

Not speaking up about the horrors happening in the world will not protect you.

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@na5leh

10 months

@la_malaaa @mant2et_enheyar also funny bc you were always able to do that if you asked your barista lol

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@na5leh

11 months

slow genocide. humiliation. they want our knees and backs broken.

Quds News Network

@QudsNen

11 months

A desperate young Palestinian is seen attempting to collect spilled water after #Israel destroyed the neighborhood's only water tank. Israeli occupation forces persist in targeting civilians. #Gaza #Palestine

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@na5leh

3 years

I can appreciate John Oliver’s segment but the implications are clear. yes w/o a doubt, I am overjoyed to see the narrative shift so wildly bas this still feels bare minimum to me. how much violence have we endured for someone, for a white man, to call it apartheid?

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@na5leh

4 years

amman (@/ba7rarchives)

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@na5leh

10 months

reached out two weeks ago to Chestnut Review asking for my work to be removed from their site under moral injury, re: PACBI. today I received this lovely response. I have no interest in feeding this energy, but what a response tactic to utilise…

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@na5leh

3 years

staring into palestine directly from da baptism site. as in four steps across. literally.

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@na5leh

1 year

we found a printer! thank u everyone! but yes: boycott big bang screen printing in NYC - they are zionists.

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@na5leh

6 months

I’ve been translating some of Anees Ghanima’s poems for work and saw ⁦ @Mizna_ArabArt ⁩ linked his family’s evacuation fund. Please share and give whatever you can.

Help me Evacuate my Family from Gaza, organized by Reeham ghanima

Dear Community Members, My name is Reham Ghanima, and I am a programming expert f… Reeham ghanima needs your support for Help me Evacuate my Family from Gaza

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@na5leh

4 years

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@na5leh

9 months

‘there is no wall round it’

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@na5leh

11 months

@MosabAbuToha in @Poetry_London , Autumn 2023.

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@na5leh

7 months

total sum: this is an ad for a hedge fund. they actively refuse to name our killers and will never admit there is a genocide. zionism & it’s lackeys are worthless death makers. enjoy your endowment <3 losers.

Poetry Foundation

@PoetryFound

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A boycott of the Poetry Foundation that began last November was recently lifted. This update is intended to foster better communication, connection, and understanding following the conversations and learning that came from this time. Read in full here:

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@na5leh

1 year

9to5Mac

@9to5mac

1 year

Apple Maps Israel and Gaza drops live traffic data at request of military by @benlovejoy

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@na5leh

2 years

hi!! this is me :) I am very excited to share me lil chapbook w/ u … so excited that here’s the ToC PSA: if ordering the chapbook to Jordan, please do so asap as it’s only the initial shipment w/o delivery fees (use code LEENAFANCLUB) thank u graciously 🤍

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@violetetc

2 years

PREORDER NOW:

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@na5leh

5 years

2020 is the year of banat al arab unionising

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@na5leh

9 months

why is the US not considered a failed state when easily half the population uses GFM for healthcare

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@na5leh

10 months

I must ask some of you: is the respectability rot in your brain so severe that when you continually center zionists while witnessing the atrocities being done onto Palestinians that you believe you have unlocked some sacred third space none of us are privy to?

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@na5leh

6 years

nah we just got debt

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@na5leh

4 years

can’t fathom how life keeps moving. rent is still due, bills are still accounted, thesis doesn’t cease and I am sprawled on my floor trying to figure out grief

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@na5leh

1 year

I love being in the US bc it means when attending a leftist gathering, I am told that Palestinians should not bother dreaming of having liberation like Algerians. it’s actually so funny how so many people only know textbook rhetoric of us & continue to exist in zionist paradigms

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@na5leh

9 months

@samah_fadil have to be real I also don’t know who she is

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@na5leh

11 months

@ZaraRahim ur translation is off. sweet water means not salty, as in drinkable. he never said the line about god’s tears. he basically just thanks god for the water from the rain and goes on to say god knows we’re thirsty and sent us water.

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@na5leh

10 months

I have never felt someone so accurately sum up my relationship with my mother; of how I am literally an echo of who she is filled with the brightest love, given entirely by her. I am writer because of my mother. I exist because of my mother. It is for my mother I carry her land.

Yasser

@Yasser_Gaza

10 months

Listen to dr. Refaat Alareer @itranslate123 at TEDx Shujaiya speaking about the importance of telling stories our stories and others.

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@na5leh

4 years

meet qamar wa shams

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@na5leh

11 months

is there any psychological research on european settlers (yes inclds the US) and their blood-thirst? because personally the rest of the world doesn’t function like them and I don’t understand how someone, let alone a group, crave such terrible horror.

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@na5leh

4 years

thinking about port said

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@na5leh

1 year

grateful to share three new poems in the stunningly beautiful issue of @Mizna_ArabArt , edited by @IntifadaBatata . here is ‘provocation of the night,’ in response to my sunshine @aidabardissi ’s 'عودة'

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@na5leh

4 years

“Ayyoubé” is a feature film that tells the story of a Palestinian woman in a Lebanese refugee camp. Dir. by Awad Awad, a third gen Palestinian raised in Ein el Helweh, a refugee camp in the South of Lebanon — please consider helping fund this project :)

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@na5leh

10 months

been sayyyyying this. crusader christians pretending to care about any iota of christianity meanwhile the literal descendants of the homies on your charms are being actively genocided for the last 75 years

İyad el-Baghdadi | إياد البغدادي

@iyad_elbaghdadi

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Not only are 10% of Palestinians Christian, it also happens that Palestinian Christians are genetically indistinguishable from ancient Israelites as confirmed by modern DNA analysis. They're the direct descendents of the same people Jesus walked with in the Holy Land.

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@na5leh

6 months

there is a difference btwn diaspora and exile. exile is not a cute little identity term. it is a literal state of being. to claim it when you’re a Palestinian American is so harmful, esp to actual Palestinians in exile. the capacity for selfishness is so, so sick. have shame.

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@na5leh

3 years

Amman

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@na5leh

8 months

hi!!! this is my homie, please PLEASE boost and share around. we have an insta set up with the same handle as well.

Hisham Fundraiser

@hisham_fndraisr

8 months

🔴EMERGENCY FUNDRAISER🔴 ~ Help us fundraise for Hisham and his family, whose home in occupied East Jerusalem is going to be demolished by Israel ~ Donate via PayPal or Venmo to: hishamfundraiser @gmail .com 🇵🇸🇵🇸🇵🇸

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@na5leh

2 years

I barely write on my grief about my brother because I find it still so difficult to articulate the emotions—I feel like when you’re writing about grief, you try to honour the person you write on. For me, that’s so difficult because all I think of is the futurity of loss, as in:

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@na5leh

3 years

joyful 🤍🔥🧯🍓

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@na5leh

4 years

daydreaming about running over every person who asked me, unprovoked w/ barely knowing me, how my brother died as if they have some self-involved right into his death and my family’s grief. choke. allah yil3ankom.

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