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[جلال الدين الرومي @RumiArab]

أنتَ العليمُ بما في القلبِ من وجعٍ
أنتَ الرحيمُ بضعفِ لستُ أقواهُ..

[Ambereen Dadabhoy 🪬 @DrDadabhoy]

I honestly don't know how I am expected to do my job while everyone around me pretends that Arab people being mass murdered is no big deal.

[Dr Zahira Jaser زاهرة جاسر @ZahiraJaser]

If you understand that Beirut is an international city, in a sovereign country, inhabited by people with lives like you and me, how can you stay silent when 2000lb bombs are dropped on densely populated quarters?
I cannot comprehend. Unless you participate to the dehumanisation.

[Mona Fawaz @mona_fawaz]

#Beirut- The sea and sky are still as beautiful and the wind flows… but the city smells of sulfur and the background is loud with the sound of a buzzing drone. War is here, in every aspect of our lives-

[مقولات وإقتباسات مُلهمة @Mohabdalrb11255]

كنت دائمًا خارج السّرب ، لا أحد يعرف ما يدور في ذهني ، لا أتعمّق مع أيّ أحد ، كأنما لي قضيّةٌ أخرى ، وأرضٌ أخرى ، وحربٌ لا تعني الجميع ".

➖كافكا .

[جلال الدين الرومي @RumiArab]

عندما تقرر أن تبدأ الرحلة سيظهر الطريق.

– جلال الدين الرومي

[Friendly Neighborhood Comrade @SpiritofLenin]

“Bodies fall, not ideas.”
- Ghassan Kanafani

[محمود درويش | درويشيّات @_darwishiat]

ولنا أحلامنا الصُغرى ..

[جلال الدين الرومي @RumiArab]

الرُّوح التي فيها شيء من روحك تعرفُ كيف تخاطبك بلا كلمات..

[ٻۧــٰا̍ڛۜــڔ قَصْدٌاللَّهِ 𓂀 @yasserkasdalla]

@MolMoHsen

[محسن /мσнsε:η/ @MolMoHsen]

الهوس بالتقاليد ينبع من الخوف من المجهول، و تقديسها يحرم الإنسان الاقتراب من جوهر كينونته لأنها تعفيه من عناء إكتشاف الذات، لهذا يقول أدونيس:"«المعنى ليس وراءنا بل أمامنا، لانملكه بل نتجه نحوه»

[Radical Books Collective @radicalbooks.bsky.social @WARSCAPES]

Novelist, filmmaker and historian Assia Djebar was born on this day in 1936 in Cherchell, Algeria. In her work and life, she continually centered the lives and voices women caught in the throes of war, revolution and patriarchy.

[Read the MENA @readthemena]

“What I do is not what Hollywood calls belly dance. I have travelled the world to show what I do is not belly dancing but a refined, artistic, dreamy dance, full of tradition and beauty. Oriental dance is, above all, an expressive dance and in that lies in beauty”
Samia Gamal

[GRAFIX - The infinite poster road. @365posterblog1]

Maya Fidawi ,Lebanese children's book illustrator.

[جلال الدين الرومي @RumiArab]

من السَّهل أن يَقف أيًّ شخصٍ وسط الجمُوع، لكنّ الشُّجاع فقط هو من يتمكّن من الوقُوف منفردا.

[Librarians and Archivists with Palestine @Librarians2Pal]

Discover new poetry by Palestinian authors published between 2023-2024. Let us know in the comments if there are other titles we should spotlight!

[Mosaic Rooms @MosaicRooms]

𝓒𝓲𝓷é-𝓢𝓪𝓱𝓻𝓪 screens 𝘈𝘯𝘥 𝘴𝘵𝘪𝘭𝘭, 𝘪𝘵 𝘙𝘦𝘮𝘢𝘪𝘯𝘴, 𝘎𝘢𝘭𝘣’𝘌𝘤𝘩𝘢𝘰𝘶𝘧 & the premiere of 𝘔𝘦𝘮𝘰𝘳𝘪𝘦𝘴 𝘰𝘧 𝘢𝘯 𝘜𝘯𝘣𝘰𝘳𝘯 𝘚𝘶𝘯. + talk w/ filmmakers 𝐌𝐚𝐫𝐜𝐞𝐥 𝐌𝐫𝐞𝐣𝐞𝐧, 𝐀𝐫𝐰𝐚 𝐀𝐛𝐮𝐫𝐚𝐰𝐚 & 𝐒𝐚𝐦𝐢 𝐄𝐥-𝐄𝐧𝐚𝐧𝐲
https://t.co/81BGbxZdkF

[ArabLit & ArabLit Quarterly @arablit.bsky.social @arablit]

If you really want to know about life in ancient Gaza -- what we know of it from the writings of ancient Egypt, the Romans, from early Arabic writing --

(then get a copy, all proceeds go to our partners Majalla 28, more info here: https://t.co/xqjDkvxnbu)

[Library of Arabic Literature @LibraryArabLit]

"Praise, in someone’s presence or absence, is giving the object praised his due for his fine qualities, acknowledging his possession of them, and informing him that the eulogizer is not just aware of them but grants and concedes them to him."