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feral-ballad · 5 months

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Susan Abulhawa, from Against the Loveless World: A Novel

[Text ID: “I wanted to be chosen, maybe loved. I wanted out of my life, out of my skin,”]

#susan abulhawa #palestinian literature #excerpts #writings #literature #prose #fragments #selections #words #quotes #typography #prose collection

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luthienne · 5 months

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Mahmoud Darwish, from Journal of an Ordinary Grief (tr. from the Arabic by Ibrahim Muhawi)

[Text ID: A place is not only a geographical area; it's also a state of mind. And trees are not just trees; they are the ribs of childhood.]

#mahmoud darwish #journal of an ordinary grief #words #lit #typography #palestinian literature #in the wild forest #xx

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thenextdoormatilda · 3 months

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–Palestinian poet and editor of Mizna, George Abraham.

#poetry #words #classic literature #literature #quotes #english literature #palestinian poetry #palestinian literature #palestine #free palestine #free gaza #ceasefire now #quote #george abraham

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girlfictions · 6 months

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Hiba Abu Nada, from I Grant You Refuge (trans. Huda Fakhreddine)

Hiba Abu Nada was a novelist, poet, and educator. She wrote this poem on Oct. 10th, 2023. She died a martyr, killed in her home in south Gaza by an Israeli raid on Oct. 20th, 2023. She was 32 years old.

#urge you all to read this piece in full #this verse - to write it amidst so much death and destruction - leaves me speechless #palestine #words #quotes #poetry #typography #free palestine #palestinian literature

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chaiaurchaandni · 6 months

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the last poem written by a Palestinian martyr

read the full poem here!! <3

#free palestine #palestine #gaza #long live palestine #glory to the martyrs #from the river to the sea palestine will be free #long live the resistance #death to israel #palestinian literature #poetry

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flowerytale · 6 months

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Mahmoud Darwish, from "Mural", Unfortunately, It Was Paradise: Selected Poems (tr. by Munir Akash & ‎Carolyn Forché)

#mahmoud darwish #unfortunately it was paradise: selected poems #poetry #poem #poems #palestinian literature #fragments #ghosts #haunted #*

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haykhighland · 6 months

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By Najwan Darwish, Palestinian Poet

#Najwan Darwish #palestine #Armenia #Palestinian #armenian #west asia #west asian #indigenous west asian #Middle East #Palestinian poetry #palestinian literature #freepalestine #freeartsakh #Artsakh

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houseofpurplestars · 3 months

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"...in 1948 "israel" had not only expelled the Palestinians from their country but also frozen all their bank assets. Not content with depriving the Palestinians of their homes and taking over their country, "israel" was also pursuing them across the border and depriving them of the means to live in the countries where they were exiled. "Israeli" officials were working on the principle of "no money, no country." They wanted to turn the Palestinians into beggars."

-Raja Shehadeh, "We Could Have Been Friends, My Father and I"

#free palestine #free gaza #i stand with palestine #raja shehadeh #palestinian literature #palestinian history #genocide #zionism is terrorism #colonialism #capitalism

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hussyknee · 4 months

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I woke up to the news about Refaat Alreer. I still feel cold. Imagine seeing someone talking on your TL every day, narrating what the genociders are doing, counting the dead and telling their stories, amplifying his colleagues in Palestinian activism and academia, advocating and pleading endlessly for a ceasefire, delivering blistering witticisms about Zionist propaganda and then...he and his whole family are dead.

Two of my favourite tweets by him, calling out the craven Western media for never naming Israel.

It feels like a funeral today. My whole TL full of his students and Palestinians mourning Refaat alongside writers and journalists and academics from all over the Global South. The only people who matter to us is us.

Meanwhile, Zionists are attacking us under our mourning tweets, circulating the tweet where he laughed at the monstrous lie of Hamas cooking a baby in an oven during Oct 7th, one of the lies that fuelled the slaughter that eventually killed him too.

This was his last tweet.

USAmerican disability activist Imani Barbarin's tweet today was partially motivated by Refaat's death.

I need to go offline for a while.

I leave you with Refaat's last poem that was his pinned tweet for over a month. When a storyteller dies, generations are robbed of universes. When a poet dies, the world loses a piece of its soul.

You can find Refaat's book "Gaza Writes Back" in my gdrive folder of Palestinian literature. I don't know where the royalties will go now, but please also try and find it in a bookstore or library.