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Isabelle Eberhardt - Ghost in the Colonial Machine Isabelle Eberhardt defied every rule of her time: a Swiss-born writer who became a Muslim nomad, crossed gender lines, and vanished into the Algerian desert. At 27, she died in a flash flood, leaving ...

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Violence
as Arun Kundnani argues, in many ways
relational. We like to think our [Western] violence is rational, reactive, and
normal, whereas theirs is fanatical, aggressive and exceptional. But we also
bomb journalists, children and hospitals."
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"the Crusades had been seen by the West as completely legitimate, while
jihads were a form of reprehensible violence directed against us as the infidel.
Both were holy wars. "
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recent research cven
suggests that the same nerve regions are stimulated whether you're reading about an act or experiencing in actuality.
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today, these poems-- taught all over the
Arab world- are known as the Mu'allaqat, or the Hanging Odes of Mecca. An
oral victory captured, preserved, and thus transformed.
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As the eleventh-century poet-philosopher Abu al-Alaa al-Ma arri wrote:

Now this religion happens to prevail
Until by that one it is overthrown,
Because men dare not live with men alone
But always with another fairy tale.

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Jerusalem: а future promised every year to every generation during the Seder.

My past and my history and my home
promised to someone else.

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In the Israeli alter-narrative, the "Palestine of 1948 was
land without a people for a people without a land,"today"the hundreds of Palestinian villages & towns destroyed in 1948 are still forced out of Israeli public awareness, away from the signposts of memory."
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Perhaps Muhammad told
Nusayba how it was in this place, in the Old City of Jerusalem, that he met
all the prophets of the past- Adam and Jesus and Moses and Abraham and
understood his place among them The last link in a chain of belief.
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To be Palestinian is to carry the Nakba in ones genes, the shock alive and buzzing molding our subconscious. Reading about it brought the candle's flame closer to the skin.
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Jerusalem, then, is a contradiction- an
integrated, divided ciry.
Or, in the words of Amnesty International: apartheid.
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In Jerusalem- city of
Jez Butterworth's classic play- Palestinians face forced expulsions and discmimation. #NSNuseibeh25 #Namesake #ReflectionsOnAWarriorWoman

In Jerusalem-city of William Blake's poetry- -Palestinians cannot rely on the
authorities, knowing that these authorities (the law, the police, the army) will likely meet them with excessive, often deadly, force.
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Twenty-six libraries in the West, two in the East.
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Of course, none of this is the case for Israeli residents of West
Jerusalem, who are, increasingly, encouraged
to move into the Palestinian
neighborhoods in the East. In fact, according to a 2021 EU report rought
14,894 settlers now live in East Jerusalem.
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My residency is a precious,
precious thing that I live in constant fear of losing.
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Again another UN resolution condemned
the action, demanding that Israel rescind its actions.
That didn't happen-and still hasn't.
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He smiled at me warmly as if to ask
if I understood, and I nodded. It's obvious: the links between Judaism and
Islam are much, much closer than the links between theism and atheism.
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It is not just that we both live in this land, he said, taking a bite of the soggy bread.
It is that we both live in the world of God, you see? Whereas Your average
reformist Jew in New York, he does not!
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To feel, as Mohja Kahf, the Syrian-American poet put it, "a tent
of tranquility."
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#hijab

It's made more
painful by the security processes at the airport, which are particularly bad if you
happen to be a Person of a Suspicious Nature (read: Palestinian), and especially
if you are a Puzzling Person of a Suspicious Nature (read: East Jerusalemite).
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The Lady with the Veil, painted in 1768 shows his wife looking seductively
through dark veil worn à la Bolognese-women would
cover their headsoften also covering their faces as well as they sauntered along .You are veiled because you're valuable, untouchable, pure. #NSNuseibeh25

Experiences like anti-Islamism live under the skins of those of us it marks, writesSuhaiymah Manzoor-Khan It "alters our physiologies, lives in our nervous systems, makes us hypervigilant and afraid."
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Zakiya Al-Busaidi: Arabic term used to indicate somatization is tajseed. When translated back to English, this word means embodiment or embodying. This is perhaps a more accurate description of somatization than any other: a literal embodying of our mental states
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Palestinians- and Arabs and Muslims more widely-areknown to somatize their worries, the fear turnedphysical.
Headaches andbackaches and gastrointestinal trouble. Shooting pains in the arms and legs.Exhaustion. We are all exhausted, all the time.
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Tragedies have hit the rest of my family-my grandfather
had his leg shot off by the Stern gang
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So, though starvation is physically incapacitating, we have been sold the idea that to not-eat is to be strong; though emotionally draining. We buy that to not-need is to be invincible.
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when a cousin came to visit from the UK, my aunts, meeting her for the first time over a giant lunch, barely pressed
their foundation- covered faces to hers before adding, Yah allah, its such a pity
you're huge, habibti! Mashallah, your face is so lovely!
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when a cousin came to visit from the UK, my aunts, meeting her for the first time over a giant lunch, barely pressed
their foundation- covered faces to hers before adding, Yah allah, its such a pity
you're huge, habibti! Mashallah, your face is so lovely!
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