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Isabelle Eberhardt - Ghost in the Colonial Machine
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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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Part of the difficulty in reading her, though, is also, paradoxically, that she
herself didnt read, and this-a readinglesslife- I find impossible to imagine.#NSNuseibeh25
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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: Π° 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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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
Twenty-six libraries in the West, two in the East.
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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
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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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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We make ourselves with our stories, more than we are made by our genes.
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