MaRiem Mouhsine

Gli uomini potrebbero essere liberi solo se ne fossero consapevoli.

[julaibib]

[altayralmuhaajir]

Rediscovering Suakin: A Photoseries

By Leena Habiballa

Suakin: a city once lauded as ‘The Venice of Africa’ in medieval times, now reduced to ruins. Scattered around the island are a few remains – historical remnants of a rich legacy. Until very recently, Suakin (meaning populated/inhabited place) was ironically a ghost town, spiritless and desolate. Sudanese poet Ibrahim Shaliya lamented this tragic downfall in his now famous ‘Suakin al-Bakiya’ (Weeping Suakin):

حقا سـواكن كنت أنت جميلة كوسـام مجد خط في سودانها ولمن رآها زهـرة فواحـة فياضـة بالحسـن في ريعانها هي مرتع الأباء مهد صباهمو كم انطوى الأجيال في أحضانها واليوم لهفي يا سواكن لا أرى غـير التي تلتف في أكـفانها   والموج حــولك نادب فكأنه دمع الحـزينة فاض من أجفانها

This photoseries – Suakin al-Muta3afiya//Recovering Suakin – is a form of consolation and reassurance to Shaliya; an attempt to visually resolve the paradox of a barren Suakin. The generous amount of sky and open expanse in each photo are at once a reminder of Suakin’s haunting emptiness and a signalling of a rebirth. Spaces, pregnant with possibility, where the slow cultivation of life and patient blossoming of a new Suakin is taking place.

I hope to tell the story of a city that is beginning to rise out of the rubble, breathe, rebuild its dignity and reinsert itself back into the Sudanese popular imaginary. To depict how a city that once laid itself down as a bridge between Africa and the rest of the world has now – perhaps appropriately for an island – defiantly looked inward to self-heal and tend to its own wounds.

Leena Habiballa is a global soul of Sudanese origin. She graduated with a BSc in (neo-liberal) Genetics from University College London in 2014 and has since been doing work-based training in a few areas of social work in Khartoum. She is co-editor at Qahwa Project magazine and amateur writer/poetartist. Her talents include 7.9 Richter-scale-measuring sneezes, half-reading 10 books simultaneously and playing the drums. Follow her at allsudaneverything.tumblr.com 

[noircommejesuis]

the president of nigeria is about to fuck boko haram up and cut his own salary in half and criminalized female genital mutilation

the president of guinea built/is building infrastructure and school and wells all over the country and is decreasing youth unemployment exponentially

the president of cote d’ivoire made school mandatory of children ages 6-16 and banned plastic bags while also building ultra modern trasportation infrastructure

the future is for real in africa 

[incandescent-justice]

I think this should have a hell of a lot more notes on it than it does. This is what good news looks like folk, and the continent of Africa surely deserves a shed load of it.

[houseofhaleth]

Today (April 7th) is Remembrance Day for the Rwandan genocide. While Rwanda still faces challenges, their recovery has been incredible. They now have the highest percentage of women in parliament around the world (one of only two countries to have over 50% women), their gross national income has risen each year, and life expectancy has risen from  48 in 1990 to 65 in 2013.

[beebfan]

Things the U S. Media never discusses

[coffeepeople]

How wild is it that every version of you probably exists still, somewhere, in someone’s memory? The messy you, crying on the floor exists still in your mind. The happy, sun-soaked you, exists in your best friend’s memory. No part of you has died, all parts of us exist always, simultaneously and hidden. 

[fyp-philosophy]

I see the sun, and if I don’t see the sun, I know it’s there. And there’s a whole life in that, in knowing that the sun is there.

Fyodor Dostoyevsky (via fyp-philosophy)

[saso12]

[refinery29]

Watch: Danielle Brooks has the best analogy to explain just how badly the fashion industry has erased plus sized women

But she added that when she began to see images of herself on billboards and got used to seeing other plus size women in the media, “I walked around with my head held a little higher, my strut a little firmer, and my smile a little brighter. I saw myself in those women.”

Gifs: Refinery29

WATCH THE VIDEO

[dynastylnoire]

There are literally more plus size people than thin people and yet here we are with zero representation, terrible clothing options, and the hate of the masses for existing.

[ramiroo19-deactivated20200102]

Sadness and depression will be relieved when the slaves realize they have neither the power to avoid what has befallen them, nor to bring about what was not destined for them.

Imam Ibn Qayyim | Prophetic Medicine, (p. 236)

[timotaychalamet]

“Tell me that you love me first because I’m afraid that if I tell you first you’ll think that I’m playing the game.”

Jeux d'enfants (2003) dir. Yann Samuell

[thegreaterjihad]

Reminder that if a man in a mosque ever tells a woman that it is better for women to pray at home and that she shouldn’t attend prayers, the Prophet (pbuh) said, “When women ask permission for going to the mosque, do not prevent them.” [Bukhari and Muslim]

Umar bin Khattab didn’t like his wife to go to the mosque because he thought it was dangerous, but she went anyway. He didn’t stop her from going, so people used to ask him why he didn’t stop her from attending prayers. He said, “How can I stop her from going to the mosque if the Prophet (pbuh) said not to prevent women from going?” 

The Prophet (pbuh) would normally make prayers really long. But when he heard children cry, he would make the prayers shorter so as not to disturb the women. In this way, he encouraged women to come to the mosque. He knew that if he stopped the children from coming, the moms would stop coming too, so he created a nurturing family environment in the mosque. The Prophet (pbuh) said, “When I hear the cries of the children in the arms of their mothers, I shorten the prayer.” [Bukhari]

If people make you or your children/siblings feel unwelcome in the mosque, please realize that women being banned from a mosque or being made to feel less-than because of their children is not a concept that the Prophet (pbuh) promoted nor is it Islamic in nature. The Prophet (pbuh)’s wives attended their prayers and even did their devotional stays (itikaaf) in the mosque. So please keep attending, despite what anyone says to you :) 

[islamic-art-and-quotes]

The Reward for Patience (Quran 25:75)

[mariem2m]

La serenità

In una relazione amorosa, si dice che colui che ama di più sia il partner più debole. Non si è più deboli perché si ama di più ma si è più sereni. L'ansia di ottenere quello che rende deboli. La prospettiva con cui pensare ed agire è questa: visto che la amo o lo amo, sono felice, e va bene. Questa è la serenità.

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Sub7anAllah…a video of Canadians welcoming and greeting Syrian refugees by singing a song (Tala’ al Badru ‘Alayna) that was sung to the Prophet Mohammad (pbuh) when he made Hijra to Madina! This is absolutely beautiful!!

[islamic-art-and-quotes]

When I say ‘as-salaamu alaykum’ and when you say ‘walaykum as-salaam’ to me, then we’ve actually made an open declaration that there is no grudge, animosity, hatred, or anxiety between us, and that we only wish peace from Allah upon each other.

Nouman Ali Khan

Originally found on: smile-itssunnah

(via islamic-art-and-quotes)

[la-rinascente]

One day I woke up and we no longer spoke the same language. I haven’t heard from you since.

Where did you go?, Hishaam Siddiqi (via egyptianprincess)

[ahmadkhader]

[arab-quotes]

“Recovery needs time.” - “Everything needs time.”

[alittleheartandruh]

Does this happen to anyone else: you’re doing something normal like having a tedious day at work and without warning it’s like you’ve been pulled out of your body and suddenly you’re watching yourself and you see the numbing purposelessness of what you’re doing and nothing feels real anymore. You think about how this is the dunya, this is dunya and it’s temporary. Fleeting. How most of what you do here, like this job, is completely meaningless and then you can’t stop being conscious of the futility of your own existence and you just feel surreal and empty there onwards?