Ramblings of a Part-Time Egyptian

Part Egyptian, part American! Copt/female/21 My social justice blog and thoughts: https://ramblingsofaparttimeegyptianblog.wordpress.com/

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Senegal, Mauritania, Mali, Burkina Faso, Niger, Nigeria, Chad, Sudan, Eritrea, Ethiopia, and Djibouti. Those are the countries. It will be drought-resistant species, mostly acacias. And this is a brilliant idea you have no idea oh my Christ

This will create so many jobs and regenerate so many communities and aaaaaahhhhhhh

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more info here: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Great_Green_Wall

it’s already happening, and already having positive effects. this is wonderful, why have i not heard of this before? i’m so happy!

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Oh yes, acacia trees.

They fix nitrogen and improve soil quality.

And, to make things fun, the species they’re using practices “reverse leaf phenology.” The trees go dormant in the rainy season and then grow their leaves again in the dry season. This means you can plant crops under the trees, in that nitrogen-rich soil, and the trees don’t compete for light because they don’t have any leaves on.

And then in the dry season, you harvest the leaves and feed them to your cows.

Crops grown under acacia trees have better yield than those grown without them. Considerably better.

So, this isn’t just about stopping the advancement of the Sahara - it’s also about improving food security for the entire sub-Saharan belt and possibly reclaiming some of the desert as productive land.

Of course, before the “green revolution,” the farmers knew to plant acacia trees - it’s a traditional practice that they were convinced to abandon in favor of “more reliable” artificial fertilizers (that caused soil degradation, soil erosion, etc).

This is why you listen to the people who, you know, have lived with and on land for centuries.

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“We will be together again بالعافية.”

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الواقعة الشهيرة لمضايقة  الجمهور لعبد الحليم في عيد شم النسيم في أبريل  1976 - عند غنائه قارئة الفنجان لأول مرة , حليم حتى قبل ما يبدأ غنائها على المسرح بدأت الصفافير و الهتافات بأزعاج و دوشة , طلب منهم الهدوء  لأنها غنوة صعبة و كلماتها أصعب و لازم تـتسمع الأول , طبعا كلمات نزار قبانى و ألحان محمد الموجى اللى اخدت منه سنـتـيـن لـتلحينها , حليم قبل مـيـبـدأ كمان شكر الموسقيين اللى قاعدين وراه على مجهودهم لأخراج الأغنية ، أغلب الجمهور اسـتقـبلها باستـحسان ، إلا أن مجموعة منهم كانت تصدر الهتافات والصفير طول الوقت ، وليس في نهايات المقاطع كما هو معتاد ، عبد الحليم قلهم ” بس بقه ” و “ دى هيصا بقا “ ، و قام بالتصفير زيهم ، ده خلى الصحف المصرية تـنـتـقده بحده و تهاجمه بشراسة!! , حاول عبد الحليم في أكثر من لقاء توضيح موقفه - نقطة مهمة - حليم كان دايما معاه كرسى قريب عليه كوباية الميه و فيها المسكن و الأسبرين ف حفلاته الأخيرة على المسرح - قدرته على التحمل و التماسك كانت ضعفت و رغم كده كان مستمر- طبعا لم يكن الجميع يعرف ان دى حفلته الأخيرة

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Mogadishu’s Lido Beach, Somalia, 24 April, 2015.

Jerome Starkey

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كن خيراً و سيعود الخير لك.

Do good and good will come to you.

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BILLIONAIRE IS A SLUR

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HOW THE NAZIS WIPED OUT THE ROMANI MIDDLE CLASS

By Jonathan Lee CW genocide, ethnic violence Between 1936 and 1945 the Nazis wiped out over 50% of Europe’s Romani people. Whether they were choked to death in the gas chambers of Auschwitz-Birk…

The Romani people who were the easiest to record and exterminate were those who were the most integrated in society. Like the Jews, these people existed on census records, military rosters, and school files. The decimation of this Romani middle-class meant that there were few strong voices who were in a position to speak up about the Romani genocide after 1945.

There were no Sinti or Roma called to testify at the Nuremberg trials. There were no Romani scholars, no Romani lawyers, no civil servants. No one left to document the atrocities committed against Romani people alongside the Jews – the only two peoples specifically targeted by the Nazis’ Final Solution to ensure German racial purity.

Whereas census data for Jews can be compared before and after the Holocaust, this is rarely the case for Sinti and Roma, meaning the total loss of Romani life is extremely difficult to piece together. Estimates vary somewhere between 500,000 and 1.5 million people. In 1939, around 30,000 people referred to as ‘Gypsies’ lived in what is now Germany and Austria. The total population living in Greater Germany and its occupied territories is unknown, though scholars Donald Kenrick and Grattan Puxon have provided a rough estimate of 942,000. Of the Sinti and Roma living in Germanic Central Europe, only 5,000 are thought to have survived.

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It’s Colder in Chicago Illinois than Antartica!❄️

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This literally looks like a post apocalyptic universe WHY is no one talking about that

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GINA LINETTI

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Selena Gomez successfully finessing a singing career is the biggest scam of the modern entertainment industry 

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