انا قلبي مساكن شعبية

immigrant

Sun, 19 May 2013 23:23:26 -0400

miguu:

you broke the ocean in
half to be here
only to meet nothing that wants you.

yanorayanora: Third-class train to Cairo By Scott D. Haddow

Fri, 17 May 2013 12:28:23 -0400

yanorayanora:

Third-class train to Cairo

By Scott D. Haddow

aloverthatsighs: This body of work is an exploration of the...

Fri, 17 May 2013 09:17:43 -0400

aloverthatsighs:

This body of work is an exploration of the extent of cultural appropriation and encourages a discussion about it. I give the appropriator and the appropriated the opportunity to defend themselves and create a dialogue between them, while maintaining a neutral stance myself. I am not attacking those who appropriate, merely educating and creating awareness. I’m also exploring appropriation myself, and discovering the carying degrees of it within this visual conversation.

I’d like to make this a long term exploration, with a lot more participants as a form of generation-wide debate. If you’d like to be photographed to add your point of view, please do not hesitate to pop me a message here or an email at sanaahamid@yahoo.com and we could work something out!

lasiguanaba: Maya Women reversing that White Settler-Colonial...

Thu, 16 May 2013 17:36:00 -0400

lasiguanaba:

Maya Women reversing that White Settler-Colonial Gaze.

exotic white ppl we see u

qalbrawan: theuncolonizedmind: This video, in...

Thu, 16 May 2013 14:00:00 -0400

qalbrawan:

theuncolonizedmind:

This video, in its simplicity, portrays the Egypt I love.

reglobbing so I can come back and watch it tomorrow

Aidan Salakhova, I Love Myself III

Thu, 16 May 2013 12:47:54 -0400

Aidan Salakhova, I Love Myself III

35 Rhums. 2008

Wed, 15 May 2013 21:52:19 -0400

35 Rhums. 2008

"Write down: I am Arab my I.D. number, 50,000 my children, eight and the ninth due next summer —Does..."

Wed, 15 May 2013 21:12:00 -0400

“

Write down:
I am Arab
my I.D. number, 50,000
my children, eight
and the ninth due next summer
—Does that anger you?

Write down:
Arab.
I work with my struggling friends in a quarry
and my children are eight.
I chip a loaf of bread for them,
clothes and notebooks
from the rocks.
I will not beg for a handout at your door
nor humble myself
on your threshold
—Does that anger you?

Write down:
Arab,
a name with no friendly shortcut.
A patient man, in a country
brimming with anger.
My roots have gripped this soil
since time began,
before the opening of ages
before the cypress and the olive,
before the grasses flourishes.
My father came from a line of plowmen,
and my grandfather was a peasant
who taught me about the sun’s glory
before teaching me to read.
My home is a watchman’s shack
made of reeds and sticks
—Does my condition anger you?

There is no gentle name,
write down: Arab.
The colour of my hair, jet black—
eyes, brown—
trademarks,
a headband over a keffiyeh
and a hand whose touch grates
rough as rock.
My address is an unarmed village
with nameless streets.
All its men are in the field and quarry
—Does that anger you?

Write down:
Arab.
You have stolen my ancestors vineyards
and the land I once ploughed
with my children,
leaving my grandchildren
nothing but rocks.
Will your government take
those too, as the rumour goes?

Write down, then
at the top of Page One:
I do not hate
and do not steal
but starve me, and I will eat
my assailant’s flesh.
Beware of my hunger
and of my anger.

”

- Identity Card, Mahmoud Darwish (1964)

Written when the poet was 22 years old.

(John Asfour translation)

general psa:

Wed, 15 May 2013 21:04:29 -0400

jcatgrl:

freedom of speech means that the government is not allowed to tell you to shut the fuck up. it doesn’t mean that i am not allowed to tell you to shut the fuck up.

i love the ideas you share and the questions you raise. i would like to know what you think of mona eltahawy's article.... why do they hate us?

Wed, 15 May 2013 14:19:00 -0400

Thank you!!

I have a lot of thoughts about Mona Eltahawy in general, and none of them are positive. Her article ‘Why do they hate us’ is one of the many reasons that make her a problematic individual.

I’m going to link you to article responses that tackle her piece and I think they give a good overview as to why she should find a new job and not feel compelled to speak on the behalf of Muslim and Arab women.

In the link below, there are 25 article responses to her piece. I have many favorites, but I encourage you to read the responses of Samia Errazzouki, Mehreen Kasana, Omid Safi, Mona Kareem, Dima Khatib, and the various responses featured in Foreign Policy.

http://muslimwomeninhistory.tumblr.com/post/21781756225/list-of-responses-to-mona-eltahawys-piece-why-do-they

sunday morning

Wed, 15 May 2013 14:10:00 -0400

lifeisourstory:

i wake to the deep, guttural voice of baba
he is singing about the place of his birth
optimism crooning in his melody
“Baghdad al tareekh
Baghdad al jameela
Baghdad al huub —
Baghdad the history
Baghdad the beautiful
Baghdad the love”
he duets with every iota of his soul
“Baghdad al huub”
my heart is broken
because i am in love,
i am mad with love for this land
where death has become relief
because one will finally know peace
the land where plastic handcuffs bind wrists
and black bags blind heavily lashed eyes
the land my uncle travels miles and miles to
just to peer inside, over the borders
to see his heart is still there
ravaged and wounded but it still beats
pounding rhythmically
as strong as the authentic oscillations of the tabla
he gazes at her with longing of returning, “beyti - my home”
love impels his eyes to bleed bitter tears,
insha’Allah the dawn will come
when we can rest our rigid joints
and lay our eager bones
at the place where our hearts
have always remained rooted

but until that day comes, Amo
sing with us

—

"Native people become marked as inherently violable through a process of sexual colonization. By..."

Wed, 15 May 2013 13:57:21 -0400

“Native people become marked as inherently violable through a process of sexual colonization. By extension, their lands and territories have become marked as violable as well. The connection between the colonization of Native people’s bodies- particularly Native women’s bodies- and Native land is not simply metaphorically. Many feminist theorists have argued that there is a connection between patriarchy’s disregard for nature, women, and indigenous peoples. The colonial/patriarchal mind that seeks to control the sexuality of women and indigenous people also seeks to control nature.”

- Andrea Smith’s Conquest (page 55). (via countingmyfeathers)

2brwngrls: Oh, goodie! More racist fashion editorials! This...

Wed, 15 May 2013 11:36:24 -0400

2brwngrls:

Oh, goodie! More racist fashion editorials!

This time, it’s Diva magazine’s photospread entitled “Be My Slave.” Pakistani designer Aamna Aqeel decided, for whatever reason, that the best way to showcase her fashions was via these seriously offensive images, which feature a white model clad in chic duds, accompanied by a little boy playing her “slave.”

When confronted about the photos, Aqeel insisted that the spread’s concept was to bring awareness to child labor, and that the fact that the boy is dark-skinned and dressed in ~*tribal*~ gear was purely coincidental.

However International Herald Tribune writer Salima Feerasta has quite rightly called bullshit on Aqeel’s flimsly excuse, saying: It’s facetious of the designer to claim that she was trying to stimulate a debate on child labour. The model wearing her clothes is clearly comfortable with her dominant position. She is not made up in a way that shows her to be the villain of the piece. The use of a dark skinned child in a shoot entitled “Be My Slave” certainly reeks of racism, however much the designer may deny it. And if anything, the shoot seems to condone child labour.”

What do you guys think? Will the fashion world ever get a clue?

islawmix: Maybe we can finally get rid of that BBC stock image...

Wed, 15 May 2013 11:10:00 -0400

islawmix:

Maybe we can finally get rid of that BBC stock image of ‘veils of Muslim world’.

that gifset you reblogged ("i ask for no forgiveness, for i have not sinned") is from Lost :) it's an amazing show, you should watch it!

Wed, 15 May 2013 10:08:01 -0400

I will start it soon! Thank you, Anon!

"For the love of a rose, the gardener becomes the slave of a thousand thorns."

Wed, 15 May 2013 10:07:37 -0400

“For the love of a rose, the gardener becomes the slave of a thousand thorns.”

- Turkish Proverb.

justanotherpalestinian: “To everybody that says there is no...

Wed, 15 May 2013 09:37:51 -0400

justanotherpalestinian:

“To everybody that says there is no Right of Return.”

Traces of Tea:

Tue, 14 May 2013 20:19:04 -0400

chaiandpoetry:

I find your chai cups
Lying around
Aimlessly,
Leaving overlapping
Brown circles
Dried atop glass,
I discover the chipped cups,
Tall sturdy mugs,
And sometimes ones
With fancy bluebell flowers
That are deemed by Mamma
As fancy chinaware,
They are little
scavenger hunt clues,
Tracing back
Where you were-
Speeding in the car
7:40 a.m
Hot liquid sloshing everywhere,
Standing in the balcony
Feeding sunflower seeds
To birds
At 6:00 p.m,
Sitting on the rocking chair
Catching up
On politics back home
12:45 a.m,
You call me
With a tender smile
To fill up the kettle:
“Put an extra spoon sugar”
Means your cricket team won,
“Leave the tea bag in”
Is when you have a headache
“Heat it up again”
Translates over to
Nothing is going right,
I know this;
I also know
This is how we communicate
With exchanges of chai cups.

Photo

Mon, 13 May 2013 16:59:00 -0400

flawedscript: “Karbala mourning” by abdullahcoskun Karbala...

Mon, 13 May 2013 14:49:01 -0400

flawedscript:

“Karbala mourning” by abdullahcoskun

Karbala mourning - Thousands of Turkish Jafari, a Shiite sect, stage religious processions in Istanbul on Ashura to commemorate the death of the Prophet Mohammed’s grandson Hussain and his 72 fellows in 680 AD.