Evren Sharma

RUMI - Captives of the Light

[World Scientific @worldscientific]

Evren Sharma’s Rumi: Captives of the Light reimagines the meeting of Rumi and Shams in 13th-century Konya, where poetry, mysticism, and forbidden love collide.
A timeless story of passion, faith, longing, and the women whose voices have long been silenced.

Available now.

[Evren Sharma @evrensharma]

#IStandWithScottishWomen
#IStandWithJKRowling
#TruthIsNotAHateCrime

[J.K. Rowling @jk_rowling]

🎉🌼🌸April Fools! 🌸🌼🎉

Only kidding. Obviously, the people mentioned in the above tweets aren't women at all, but men, every last one of them.

In passing the Scottish Hate Crime Act, Scottish lawmakers seem to have placed higher value on the feelings of men performing their idea of femaleness, however misogynistically or opportunistically, than on the rights and freedoms of actual women and girls. The new legislation is wide open to abuse by activists who wish to silence those of us speaking out about the dangers of eliminating women's and girls’ single-sex spaces, the nonsense made of crime data if violent and sexual assaults committed by men are recorded as female crimes, the grotesque unfairness of allowing males to compete in female sports, the injustice of women’s jobs, honours and opportunities being taken by trans-identified men, and the reality and immutability of biological sex.

For several years now, Scottish women have been pressured by their government and members of the police force to deny the evidence of their eyes and ears, repudiate biological facts and embrace a neo-religious concept of gender that is unprovable and untestable. The re-definition of 'woman' to include every man who declares himself one has already had serious consequences for women's and girls’ rights and safety in Scotland, with the strongest impact felt, as ever, by the most vulnerable, including female prisoners and rape survivors.

It is impossible to accurately describe or tackle the reality of violence and sexual violence committed against women and girls, or address the current assault on women’s and girls’ rights, unless we are allowed to call a man a man. Freedom of speech and belief are at an end in Scotland if the accurate description of biological sex is deemed criminal.

I'm currently out of the country, but if what I've written here qualifies as an offence under the terms of the new act, I look forward to being arrested when I return to the birthplace of the Scottish Enlightenment.

If you agree with the views set out in this tweet, please retweet it.

#ArrestMe #AprilFools #HateCrimeActScotland

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[J.K. Rowling @jk_rowling]

🎉🌼🌸April Fools! 🌸🌼🎉

Only kidding. Obviously, the people mentioned in the above tweets aren't women at all, but men, every last one of them.

In passing the Scottish Hate Crime Act, Scottish lawmakers seem to have placed higher value on the feelings of men performing their idea of femaleness, however misogynistically or opportunistically, than on the rights and freedoms of actual women and girls. The new legislation is wide open to abuse by activists who wish to silence those of us speaking out about the dangers of eliminating women's and girls’ single-sex spaces, the nonsense made of crime data if violent and sexual assaults committed by men are recorded as female crimes, the grotesque unfairness of allowing males to compete in female sports, the injustice of women’s jobs, honours and opportunities being taken by trans-identified men, and the reality and immutability of biological sex.

For several years now, Scottish women have been pressured by their government and members of the police force to deny the evidence of their eyes and ears, repudiate biological facts and embrace a neo-religious concept of gender that is unprovable and untestable. The re-definition of 'woman' to include every man who declares himself one has already had serious consequences for women's and girls’ rights and safety in Scotland, with the strongest impact felt, as ever, by the most vulnerable, including female prisoners and rape survivors.

It is impossible to accurately describe or tackle the reality of violence and sexual violence committed against women and girls, or address the current assault on women’s and girls’ rights, unless we are allowed to call a man a man. Freedom of speech and belief are at an end in Scotland if the accurate description of biological sex is deemed criminal.

I'm currently out of the country, but if what I've written here qualifies as an offence under the terms of the new act, I look forward to being arrested when I return to the birthplace of the Scottish Enlightenment.

If you agree with the views set out in this tweet, please retweet it.

#ArrestMe #AprilFools #HateCrimeActScotland

11/X

[Evren Sharma @evrensharma]

Before one war ends, another begins.

[Evren Sharma @evrensharma]

@hannahluci @EngelsbergIdeas Lovely piece…
I guess you are right, it’s about time to go back to fairy tales.

[Susie Dent @susie_dent]

Word of the day is ‘sequacity’ (17th century): the slavish following of a person or cause without any independent thought or judgement.

[UNESCO @UNESCO]

Happy Nowruz!

This celebration of the arrival of spring is as rich in names as it is in traditions. Bringing people together for over 3,000, #Nowruz is a great moment to step into this new year with a renewal of hope.

Discover this #LivingHeritage: https://t.co/O8jw59Nmi2

[S🌸usanJ LDN @lifestylings]

Today you are my New Year & my New Day / #Nowruz. #RUMI

عيد من و #نوروز من امروز توئي

#NorouzPirouz ☀️🌱🍎🐠🌷

@roxanamjones @KariJoys @ybeitollahi @ArchiDame
#SpringEquinox #PersianNewYear

[Evren Sharma @evrensharma]

#IStandWithGaryLinekar
#IStandWithFreedomofExpression

[Evren Sharma @evrensharma]

#Pencerende1MumYak
#PencerendeBirMumYak

[Maya Angelou @DrMayaAngelou]

"Family isn’t always blood, it’s the people in your life who want you in theirs: the ones who accept you for who you are, the ones who would do anything to see you smile and who love you no matter what.” #MayaAngelou

[Ajay Sharma @AjaySharmaFCO]

+“Türk halkına olan inancı hiç sarsılmadı: kendilerine yeniden inanmalarını sağladı; zihinlerini özgürleştirdi, enerjilerini serbest bıraktı; yıpranmış bir geçmişi gömdü; geleceğin kapılarını ardına kadar açtı; ve halkına inancını asla kaybetmedi”.+

[Ajay Sharma @AjaySharmaFCO]

Dün akşam Sir Percy Loraine'in 1948'de yayınlanan, Atatürk hakkındaki açıklamalarının dökümünü okuyordum. Sir Percy, 1930'larda Birleşik Krallık Türkiye Büyükelçisiydi. Atatürk'ü "olağanüstü bir adam" olarak tanımıyor. Özellikle aşağıdaki cümle beni çok etkiledi:+

[Ajay Sharma @AjaySharmaFCO]

Yesterday evening I was reading the transcript of Sir Percy Loraine’s broadcast in 1948 about Ataturk . Sir Percy was British Ambassador to Turkey in the 1930s. He describes Ataturk as ‘a very remarkable man’. I was particularly struck by the following sentence as well. +

[Ajay Sharma @AjaySharmaFCO]

+“His faith in the Turkish folk never faltered: he restored their faith in themselves; he liberated their minds, he released their energies; he buried an outworn past; he threw open the doors of a future; and he kept faith with his people”.+

[Ajay Sharma @AjaySharmaFCO]

When someone today was surprised that I was a British diplomat, I was able to say, I am a British Asian just like my Prime Minister @RishiSunak

[Ajay Sharma @AjaySharmaFCO]

Bu habere şaşırmadım. Bir yabancı olarak 🇹🇷 dizilerini izlemeyi çok seviyorum En favorim #Ezel. #Çukur & #ÜçKuruş'u da sevdim. Kişisel olarak @ayyapim’ın işlerini beğeniyorum. Pazar günlerimizde #Yargı & #Teşkilat'ı izliyoruz. Bazen #GönülDağı da izliyorum https://t.co/FXpL15oGnB

[Evren Sharma @evrensharma]

Fifth day in this NHS hospital and still they can’t provide a gluten free toast for a gluten intolerant person for breakfast.
@NHSEnglandLDN

[IranianWIN @IranianWin]

We Stand with #EveryWoman in #IRAN!

Iran Banu!
Iran Khanoom!
Iran Khatoon!

Artwork by Kiarash Khalili

#IranianWomen #IranianWIN #PeaceDay
@UN_Women @WomanTreaty @SimaBahous @unwomenchief

[The Royal Family @RoyalFamily]

‘May flights of Angels sing thee to thy rest.’

In loving memory of Her Majesty The Queen.

1926 - 2022