Maha Barnes

Artist, poet, writer, humanist. My artwork and writings are about memory, history, trauma and identity.

[Maha Barnes @MahaBarnes]

A piece consisting of drawings, markings, digital collage and Arabic calligraphy “love stole me from myself” circa 2021. #art #digitalart #calligraphy

[Reuters @Reuters]

Vignesh Sundaresan, aka @MetaKovan, represents a new generation of investors: the cryptocurrency kings who have created fortunes out of sight of financial regulators https://t.co/gqzkHREosI

[Amy Chew @1AmyChew]

Terrible news. #Myanmar junta jails #US journalist Danny Fenster for 11 years after being found guilty on a range of charges described by US govt as “profoundly unjust”.

The junta military has cracked down on the press since taking power in a Feb coup

https://t.co/cv1eUtaZbS

[The Telegraph @Telegraph]

🔴 American journalist Danny Fenster has been sentenced to 11 years in jail in Myanmar, despite rights groups and his news organisation saying the charges have no basis https://t.co/51OKANiMpO

[Blinkist @blinkist]

When he’s not building rockets, boring tunnels beneath Los Angeles, or sending cars into space, Elon Musk reads a lot. Here are 9 nonfiction books he thinks we should all read.

[Naomi Klein @NaomiAKlein]

"I am angry at the way this COP is not managing climate change as a crisis. We can't even talk about fossil fuels in the final text. Polluters are more welcome than people and this is what we, as youth, will keep doing: fighting to phase-out fossil fuels" https://t.co/9EAmgfNigc

[The Globe and Mail @globeandmail]

Scientists and conservation groups say it must remain intact to avoid increasing global warming. If it’s disturbed, it could wreak havoc on Canada’s net-zero emission goals and have a massive impact on the planet.

https://t.co/jlPTQXcmAH

[The Globe and Mail @globeandmail]

Beneath the trees and networks of roots are the decomposed remains of plants that have been accumulating since the end of the last ice age, about 10,000 years ago. It’s carbon that for millennia has been kept from circulating in our atmosphere.

https://t.co/jlPTQXcmAH

[Maha Barnes @MahaBarnes]

Anyone noticing Twitter to be down now?!! I can’t reach any account except mine?! #Twitter

[✪ Hussain Ali , Bu Barak @mmnoue3]

Thank you for your efforts for the sake . I hope that you will not stop claiming and spreading his suffering to the world. Barak has suffered a lot of pain and his life is at risk. Look at the severe curvature of the spine. He is unable to tennis. His condition is dangerous.

[Maha Barnes @MahaBarnes]

@m_aljbr @hamasaty2021 الخوف من الله للاسف ليس في ضمير كل إنسان و لو خاف الظالم من الله ما ظلم.

[Maha Barnes @MahaBarnes]

A stateless child in Kuwait in need of an urgent medical procedure to save him. #Statelessness is a serious problem worldwide. #legalidentity #kuwait_MOH #براك_يحتاج_اجلاء_طبي_للسعوديه #براك #براك_حسين_علي_يبي_فزعتكم

[ناصر فهيد المرزقاني @Aboo_3eedh]

الطفل براك الشمري
من فئة #البدون بحاجة إلى إجلاء طبي فورًا للعلاج،

وعلاجه متوفر في مستشفى الحرس الوطني في الرياض،

@SaudiMOH

نرجوا منكم مشاركتنا في مناشدة المسؤولين بوزارة الصحة الكويتية ومجلس الوزراء للتدخل فورًا لإجلاءه.

@KuwaitiCM
@KUWAIT_MOH

#بدون_يحتاج_اجلاء_طبي_للسعوديه

[Maha Barnes @MahaBarnes]

#Nouf is a Qatari girl who left seeking safety in the UK from what she explained to be domestic abuse by her family. She went back with assurances from her government and vanished since October 13th. News she is now in a mental asylum with her family as guardian #نوف_المعاضيد

[Maha Barnes @MahaBarnes]

We have a serious problem called “crazy blind consumerism”! We create things we don’t need, we consume them in staggering rates, we damage our environment then we create more things we shouldn’t need to fix the damage! #ClimateAction #ClimateChange

[Business Insider India🇮🇳 @BiIndia]

@jainrounak In his tweet, Beasley had mentioned the $36 billion increase in Musk’s net worth after Hertz ordered 100,000 Teslas. He added that one-sixth of this increase, which is $6 billion, could help save 42 million people who are suffering from famine.

#ElonMusk #UN #Tesla

[Business Insider India🇮🇳 @BiIndia]

#ElonMusk is ready to spend $6 billion to end world hunger, asks #UN to provide a plan

https://t.co/CWwx4to5CZ

By @jainrounak

[Driving Change @_drivingchange]

Listen to the latest #BooksDrivingChange #podcast with @meighanstone on her new book about #MeToo and the Global Fight for #WomensRights.

https://t.co/p2nxJ4OOnA

[Nora Abdulkarim نورة الدعيجي @Ana3rabeya]

“My right hand pointing to landscapes of continents & the public road.
Not I, not anyone else can travel that road for you,
It is not far, it is within reach,
Perhaps you’ve been on it since you were born & did not know,
Perhaps it is everywhere on water & on land.”

#WaltWhitman

[Maha Barnes @MahaBarnes]

I know I started on Twitter with a focus on my art and the world of NFT but I am expanding on my other interests and issues that are also expressed sometimes in my artwork and I deeply care about. Pls bare with me and much love to you all💕🤗