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EgyptianAphorist

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🇵🇸 Writer of Palestinian background. Author of 11 books: aphorisms, poetry, essays & conversations.

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Forthcoming book, #Palestine Wail : https://youtu.be/_DbMYcfqCRc?si=Je_pXCj5FIucqLWz
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#Gaza #ceasefire #genocide
#fedi22 #wisdom #inspiration #books #writing #poetry #Egypt #Art #Islam #spirituality #faith #activism #meditation #politics #photography #Nature #quotes

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EgyptianAphorist , to News from fediverse
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🚨 Please, Help: Need Remote Work!

This happens in cycles & is happening again. Despite 11 books to my name, and 25 years varied work experience — United Nations, HBO, Pearson, etc…

If you know of any creative, meaningful work: communications, copywriting, even marketing, kindly, reach out.

The 🐺 is at the🚪

CV, below:

https://www.linkedin.com/in/yahialababidi

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O, , o, …

https://youtu.be/_DbMYcfqCRc?si=UkRJDaBSCLVjvJ4u

mondoweiss , to palestine group
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Jewish students participating in pro-Palestine protests on their campuses would have valuable things to say about the alleged "rising antisemitism" at their schools. But the media is ignoring them.

https://mondoweiss.net/2024/04/the-media-is-advancing-a-false-narrative-of-rising-antisemitism-on-campus-by-ignoring-jewish-protesters/


@palestine @israel

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@mondoweiss @palestine @israel Thank you, for all the good you do. As a writer of Palestinian background, here’s my modest contribution to the Cause:

https://youtu.be/_DbMYcfqCRc?si=LmWpQ50FwQ1yyYiQ

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There are more - these are the schools we know of where students and faculty are protesting the starvation and slaughter in , and the repression of free speech on campuses.

In some of these places, the administration has ordered in battle-armed police, and threatened to use the National Guard, to arrest what have been peaceful protesters exercising their constitutional rights.

If you know of other schools, add them.

https://youtu.be/_DbMYcfqCRc?si=KG1d7D6ISBeF4Iu-

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🚨HAPPENING NOW! Massive crowd of faculty walk out in solidarity with students and with the movement for at University

https://youtu.be/_DbMYcfqCRc?si=nPG-cSH8DlPa-1QY

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Students at , united

https://youtu.be/_DbMYcfqCRc?si=te6iG3BYhRfx8uGw

EgyptianAphorist , to Art
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Statuette of alabaster standing nude goddess, from Babylon, circa first century BCE-first century CE (with movable arms, and ruby eyes and navel).

EgyptianAphorist OP ,
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@mitch What’s that mean? 😊

EgyptianAphorist , to Random stuff
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Thank you, Spain 🇪🇸

https://youtube.com/shorts/2FdSoN4pYs4?si=sy9sH20bCWnChnU8

EgyptianAphorist , to Random stuff
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‘The memory of the is wielded to turn into a forever-victim that is unassailable.

Out of the 6 million who died in the Holocaust, 1.3 million died of starvation & disease.

Exactly, what’s being inflicted upon people of as a weapon of , right now.’

— Masha Gessen

https://youtu.be/YU6kP9UqhGI?si=9bT4x6bjZDgYYdoM

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, once upon a time…

EgyptianAphorist , to Random stuff
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airstrikes caused over 100 deaths in , with Red Crescent Society reporting "extremely intense" airstrikes & shelling.

The city, which become a refuge for more than 1.3 million people, more than half of 's population, is facing severe shortages of food, water, medicine & shelter.

The situation has been described as a "pressure cooker of despair" by the UN Office for the Coordination of Humanitarian Affairs.

https://youtube.com/shorts/85cRh2CgRnc?si=ZBivXESwQMWHqEsQ

EgyptianAphorist , to Photography
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The Black @ Utah, USA. An Enigmatic Natural Fissure, Mere Feet Across Yet Unfathomably Deep, a Silent Abyss Hidden in the Landscape, Where a Misstep Could Mean a Lethal Plunge.

EgyptianAphorist , to Non Political Twitter
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https://youtube.com/shorts/mqY6cMu3DB4?si=-06xc9g-QRzqvdJ8

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Take the worst thing you can say about Hamas…

— @DrGaborMate

https://youtu.be/2KzfeFCtxrs?si=v57dlm-NX2vkGIqG

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If you ever come to :

https://youtube.com/shorts/eldnKTK7uLQ?si=lskwklxa0tzAEved

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A coalition of writers and artists are launching a Fast for Gaza — starting, tomorrow, from sunrise to sunset:

https://lithub.com/a-coalition-of-writers-and-artists-are-launching-a-fast-for-gaza/

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Disheartening to see this:

The New Frontier! Developers Harey Zahav Ltd. build settlements all over the West Bank and now they dream about building in . Here is their new advertisement "home on the beach in not a dream" amid the devastation.

https://youtube.com/shorts/o9VQHiJCSz8?si=HEhxdbokOi4hETAs

EgyptianAphorist , to Art
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The tallest tree in had been damaged by a storm and was supposed to be cut down ... but chainsaw Simon O'Rourke found a better solution to symbolise the tree's last attempt to reach the sky

https://youtu.be/iNams4by19s?si=Yho5NYSdCTcrxBfK

EgyptianAphorist , to Media Industry Discussions
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Since October 7th, these are the that has killed.

In many cases, they targeted and bombed their families, too.

How does this happen, you ask?

Some of them live in . Israel knows where they live AND their phone numbers, too.

Think about it.

https://youtube.com/shorts/cRqq4H7XNCA?si=kVNoMsJJKVPwFrQH

EgyptianAphorist , to Art
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Defiance

Poetry will feed my heart, like blood
It is salt to the bread
And liquid to the eye
I will write it with nails,
eye sockets and daggers,
I will recite it in my prison cell –
in the bathroom –
in the stable –
Under the whip –
Under the chains –
In spite of my handcuffs
I have a million nightingales
On the branches of my heart
Singing the song of liberation.

©️Mahmoud Darwish

by Sliman Mansour

https://youtube.com/shorts/RnIySfdh9io?si=BtVuxREKmhiAuzY2

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Satellite imagery obtained by human rights watch shows that during the bombardment of and the “humanitarian pause,” the military systematically destroyed orchards, farmland, and greenhouses in Northern Gaza.

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The nativity from the Lutheran Church in Bethlehem.

https://youtube.com/shorts/rW_5ViV6RaA?si=pUSNam70QyFjyvn9

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This is the highest toll of journalists killed during a “war” in modern history.

Where is the International Criminal Court?

https://youtube.com/shorts/bvMH9LtJj6w?si=_STFyYEAIugZ8Fzy

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🇮🇱🇵🇸 How are these T-shirt slogans different to ‘From the river to the sea’?

https://youtube.com/shorts/dy_TxIxqKN4?si=aQywpgHt5FZORz8_

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Ismail Shammout: "Palestine," (1967)

Driven out at age 18 by the Nakba, then a refugee in Gaza, Shammout drew inspiration for his important body of work from his firsthand experience

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by Sliman Mansour

https://embraceme.org/blog/painting-palestines-story

EgyptianAphorist , to Random stuff
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The countries voting against the bill:

🇮🇱 Israel
🇺🇸 USA
🇨🇦 Canada
🇭🇺 Hungary
🇲🇭 Marshall Islands
🇫🇲 Micronesia
🇳🇷 Nauru

https://youtube.com/shorts/M8YTa1sRh3c?si=9WhLQmUN2ddOjQnB

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A joint Jewish-Arab declaration for peace, signed by 36 different Israeli organisations

"The killing of additional civilians will not bring back those who were lost. Indiscriminate destruction and a siege harming innocents will not bring relief, justice, or calm"

https://machsomwatch.org/en/content/public-letter-peace-activist-organizations

EgyptianAphorist ,
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@inquiline As someone of Palestinian background, I thank you, for this 🙏🏼✨

Here is a powerful Voice for Peace worth knowing & emulating:

https://youtube.com/shorts/M8YTa1sRh3c?si=4I5Tos_beWusF7wY

EgyptianAphorist , to Random stuff
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The Israelis are no longer pretending it’s about eradicating anymore.

These “celebratory” posts show that this genocidal war is and was always about expulsion & colonization.

https://youtube.com/shorts/3zUoYxTwiUY?si=lTp01ECtAUKY8gC2

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A reminder that People Are Not Their Governments…

https://youtube.com/shorts/rW_5ViV6RaA?si=jM2yiDXb5FBK-N_U

EgyptianAphorist , to Art
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By the artist Issam Al Hajj Ibrahim
(look closely)

EgyptianAphorist , to Art
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by , M. Salameh

https://youtube.com/shorts/OItNjJMg4s8?si=OdIv4DxF-FTSkpCx

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Breaking news: Israel strike on Jabalia Gaza refugee camp, targeting civilians

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We can disagree and still love each other unless your disagreement is rooted in my oppression and denial of my humanity and right to exist.

— James Baldwin

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Fitzcarraldo Editions are making Adania Shibli’s Minor Detail (tr. into English by Elisabeth Jaquette) free to download for the entirety of the festival.

The book was due to receive the LiBeraturpreis at the Frankfurt Book Fair this week until the organisers cancelled the ceremony.

Go download it wherever you get your downloads.

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Politics is not religion
& Israel is not Judaism ✡️

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“If you wish to learn to be good, never gossip, and never look for faults or weaknesses.”

— Shams of Tabriz

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I feel privileged to be invited back on ABC National/ & to celebrate 💯 year anniversary of Khalil Gibran’s ‘The Prophet’ — a I encountered as a young teenager & which shaped the person/ I am, today.

(My section begins at 18 minute mark).

Big Thanks, to sensitive host Meredith Lake of Soul Search for this gift 🙏🏼✨

https://www.abc.net.au/listen/programs/soul-search/khalil-gibrans-the-prophet-at-100/102814068

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Many thanks, Lena, for your support 🙏🏼

Grateful to hear that my new book is keeping you good company ✨

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From: @LenaLia
https://masto.nu/@LenaLia/111099317230469185

EgyptianAphorist , to History
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Ancient Egyptian :

https://youtube.com/shorts/SpHRKYQAaZ0?si=3wVWX4aUflHpMEzH

@histodons

EgyptianAphorist , to History
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Excellent of the featuring illuminating footnotes and essays to better understand in context & dispel .

Highly recommended for students of comparative :

https://youtube.com/shorts/0tHhqqEgUPw?si=NAN0YrZ28thrh_ix

@histodons

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Fascinating book about the tyrannical sympathies of philosophers who ought to know better...

https://www.amazon.com/gp/aw/d/1590170717?pc_redir=1410358730&robot_redir=1&fbclid=IwAR2rp8LN_b6Z3Zp_qdIlfd1z2yp4w2gjbWHca9JuJi1ijbdT5ftXjVZdiZk#productDescription_secondary_view_pageState_1410713067713

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EgyptianAphorist , to Media Industry Discussions
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Remembering my brave cousin, Yasmina Ykelenstam , who helped thousands to heal through her histamine , and tragically passed away at 43 years young 🕊️

https://youtube.com/shorts/PzzpnCxEuZQ?si=GkgP4r06coNcsblr

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Antidote to fear & worldly distractions:

https://www.youtube.com/@Yahia.Lababidi

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Unpopular opinions:

’s obsession with is unbecoming (I’ve been on here around 9 months & it does not let up 👀)

It’s time we grew out from beneath his shadow, stopped defining ourselves in contrast to him & weaned off feeding on anger/contempt towards him.

I feel much the same way about , btw, who also thrives on attention—positive or negative.

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Grateful to be quoted in this fine book 📕
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A sense of humor is a sense of proportion.

— Gibran

https://youtube.com/shorts/o0oSy2tWpbU?si=_LFrb0mY-k3eB639

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