Artist / Writer / We Are The Medium | My books “Take Care of Your Self: The Art and Cultures of Care and Liberation” and “Shams” out now ☀️ Link below ☀️
My book “Take Care of Your Self: The Art and Cultures of Care and Liberation” is officially out worldwide! Grateful to my publisher @CommonNotions for believing in this book from the beginning. Happy book birthday to me!
Call for submissions! A thread. Being uprooted is never geographic. It’s waking up in a place you never thought you would live in, or even worse, living on a street you no longer recognize. As Iraqis, whether we are in the diaspora or not, we are all in search of roots. 1/4
@TheNarcicyst The edit was great! I’m even more pro-Palestinian now! Thanks for consolidating all the important information by celebrities, journalists and politicians in a super smart edit 😉
I am sending out a prayer of protection to our artists, writers and activists who have been working so hard, knowing full well how art, culture and knowledge are viewed as enemies of the state. 🤲🏽
@mtlgazette It would be great if you also added your voice to the growing movement of journalists condemning the unconscionable aggressions and war crimes of the Israeli government against Palestinians in Gaza, Jerusalem, the West Bank and within Israel. Cos you know... “both sides” 😉
Israeli authorities bombed Gaza’s biggest library and main publishing house today.
History has seen this before.
In 1258 Mongols destroyed the leading library in Baghdad.
The Great Library of Alexandria was burned multiple times.
Burning books is the work of Empire.
samir mansour, despite the limitation of its offering due to the siege, was the biggest bookshop in gaza. i would find myself roaming it for hours, aimlessly too, because being surrounded by books was a reminder i’ll perhaps find myself in one of these words. it’s all gone now.
Last night, the government of #Iraq drastically slowed down the Internet across the country so it can violently crack down against peaceful protesters with minimal social media backlash.
#KeepitOn
Real time decolonization taking place in Palestine right now and can’t help think of the liberal version of decolonization disseminated in Western universities and academia, reduced to reading lists and stripped of all revolutionary meaning, and how they would probably condemn it
@mtlgazette Hey @mtlgazette , this style of journalism is sooooooo 2001. Get with the program, and step onto the right side of history for a change. #freepalestine
Palestinians & non-Palestinians abroad: it is time to break the silence. Risk your job, have that difficult conversation, it will never be as difficult as living under Israeli occupation. Revaluate your life; center Palestinian voices, support our economy, pressure for sanctions.
Palestinians of ‘48 / citizens of Israel, led by young activists, standing with #SheikhJarrah & Jerusalem in downtown Haifa tonight. Israeli police fired stun grenades, arrested about 18, injured several. Protests in other Palestinian towns too.