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jaffababe · 5 months
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Gazan portraits by Palestinian Photographer Motaz Azaiza (pictured in the center of the final photograph) :
Motaz’s photography captures the daily life of Palestinians in Gaza; from old to young, from happy to sad, from living to dead - he is currently documenting the Israeli onslaught and mass destruction of Gaza live on his social media. His Instagram: Motaz_Azaiza
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haykhighland · 5 months
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[left: Anam is 90 years old. She lived through the Nakba in 1948, and today she was displaced again from the city to the south of the Gaza Strip.]
via ig: belalkh
[right: Amalia born in Martakert, Artsakh in 1920. Older than the borders of her region. She has experienced genocide all her life. She is now a refugee.]
via ig: stufankjian
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folkfashion · 5 months
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Palestinian bride and groom, Palestine, by Hosam Salem
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palipunk · 10 months
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Happy AAPI month! I wanted to do something Palestine-related so here’s a wedding costume and breakdown from Al-Dahiriya, a village south of Hebron in the West Bank. 
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sayruq · 2 months
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clayandsorcery · 23 days
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I'm still just blown away at the audacity of someone insisting that Jerusalem's name is not Jerusalem, but Al-Quds. That those evil Jews have *checks notes* have colonized the original name *checks notes* 1700 years before the Arab conquest of the Levant. Jerusalem has been continuously inhabited since 3000 BCE. It is a 5000 year old city (which is bananas by itself.) Jews have been there continuously (in varying degrees) since 1000 BCE. The Arab conquest of the Levant occurred in the 700s CE. Egyptian tablets that reference the city in the 14th century BCE call it Urusalim (that's before the Israelites mind, that's still Canaanite time period) and other references extend back to 1900 BCE. The oldest NON-Biblical HEBREW reference to Jerusalem is from the 7th century BCE. That's 1400 years before the Arab Conquest of the Levant. I'm begging you to not pick and choose what history you read of this region. It's so cool - Bronze and early Iron Age history in West Asia is incredible! And in case you haven't noticed, a lot of it still matters and has shaped current events. Lying about things like this isn't a gotcha for assertions of a VERY modern concept of Colonialism - very modern in comparison to a 5000 year old city.
The Arabs conquered Jerusalem (which wasn't colonizing because that wasn't a thing in the time period and it makes no sense in assigning a modern concept to ancient behavior.) And the Arabs called it something else. But the people from the region, the people who stayed and the people who had been expelled STILL called it by the old name. Don't you dare say that's the same thing as the colonial act of changing a name. The name Jerusalem is one of the oldest surviving concepts in the whole world. And I for one will observe the old ways.
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safije · 2 months
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Counting money, Yemen
Photographs by Pascal and Maria Maréchaux
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workersolidarity · 5 months
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🇺🇸🇵🇸 🚨
PRESIDENTIAL CANDIDATE DR. CORNEL WEST SLAMS US COWARDICE AND LACK OF LEADERSHIP ON GAZA IN FIREY SPEECH IN SOLIDARITY WITH PALESTINIANS UNDER SIEGE
"The least we can do with this moment of overwhelming vulgarity is have a ceasefire. And yet you got these cowards in #Washington DC talking about a humanitarian pause. Please, get off the crack pipe, wake up!"
Presidential candidate Cornel West gives a powerful speech during a protest at the UN plaza protest.
#source
@WorkerSolidarityNews
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songs-of-the-east · 6 months
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Armenian Folk Costume
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lilithism1848 · 4 months
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azural83 · 1 year
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Yes people there is still a massacre going on here. the reason you don't hear much about it is because our access to any social media is pretty much nonexistent at this point (a miracle on it's own that I finally managed to post this) and non Iranians or different platforms aren't really talking about us now so there's that🚶🏻‍♀️
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jaffababe · 10 months
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Gaza City, Gaza Strip. 20th Apr, 2016. Palestinians in Gaza city celebrate World Heritage Day by wearing traditional Palestinian dress and showing a hand-made traditional products.
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haykhighland · 5 months
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By Najwan Darwish, Palestinian Poet
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folkfashion · 4 months
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Palestinian woman, Palestine, by Al Nawraj
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palipunk · 4 months
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@khalidistan I can make a list! I can't say how easy it is to find some of these online (I got really lucky with some of them or had them gifted to me) but I can just rec them here
Traditional Crafts of Saudi Arabia by John Topham and others
Oman from Stacey International London
The Story of the Eastern Province of Saudi Arabia by William Facey
Arabia Felix by Pascal Maréchaux
Bedouin Jewelry in Saudi Arabia by Heather Colyer Ross
The Art of Arabian Costume by Heather Colyer Ross
Liban er Levant d’Hier by Richard A. Chahine
Splendors of the Ottoman Sultans by Dr Nurhan Atasoy
(including this one because of the references it makes to Palestine but if you are interested in Egypt too I recommend it!) The Traditional Jewelry of Egypt by Azza Fahmy
And I have three Palestinian culture books I've already scanned and uploaded online and these are:
Palestinian Costume by Shelagh Weir
Palestinian Costume by Jehan S. Rajab
Traditional Palestinian Embroidery and Jewelry - Abed Al-Samih Abu Omar
Link to these: https://www.tumblr.com/palipunk/732988749793886208/palestinians-of-tumblr?source=share
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sayruq · 3 months
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