mia’s musing

[miadat]

Love the powerful art by Gunduz Agayev from Azerbaijan. This piece is from his war + peace series showing the decapitation of US icon Ronald McDonald. We need peace in Syria + Middle East region to avoid this + that.

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Anyone who stands by the Syrian people, we salute him or her. We are people who have suffered from injustice and we need people to stand by us.

Ahmad from his Ten-Q Magazine interview

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Ahmad shares his horrifying + traumatizing experience being injured during a bombing in Aleppo, Syria. This is why we need peace in Syria.

Go to Ten-Q Magazine’s You Tube video playlist, From The Mouth of A Syrian, to see more answers to questions about the life + experiences of Ahmad, Samer + Ammar.

Read his full Ten-Q Magazine interview from Istanbul, Turkey here.

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Check out Ten-Q Magazine’s NEW "From The Mouth of A Syrian" video series! This time: Syrian refugee Samer on Democracy vs. Freedom. What does Syria need now?

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What is missing [in the news], is the pain of the Syrian people. Everyone has forgotten about our situation, what we are going through. Guys like me, children and women. The entire world has ignored this story, the story of the Syrian people.

Syrian refugee Ahmad from Aleppo in his interview or Ten-Q Magazine

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Cute video of Facebook's Mark Zuckerberg, wife + baby Max wishing everyone a Happy Chinese New Year in Chinese! He obviously really loves his wife — he’s completely embraced Chinese culture. Cute family.

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Start now. Start where you are. Start with fear. Start with pain. Start with doubt. Start with hands shaking. Start with voice trembling but start. Start and don’t stop. Start where you are, with what you have. Just…start.

Ijeoma Umebinyuo

[theeconomist]

Tomorrow’s cover, today

This week we use the cover to set out our plan for Europe’s refugee crisis. If the European Union fails to control the wave of migrants overrunning its borders, frontiers will close and right-wing nationalism will flourish. The EU needs to act all along the migrant trail, from Syria and Turkey to Greece and Germany

[miadat]

I see a better future. This happened because we need the future to be better. If not, all this happened, all these people died, without any reason.

Samer al-Kadri, Ten-Q Magazine Issue 7

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3 men, 3 generations, 3 stories of Syrian migration at Samer al-Kadri's Pages Bookstore Café, Istanbul.

Real stories, real people — not just the news.

Meet Ahmad Nazir Shhada (30), artist and bookstore owner Samer al-Kadri (42) and ophthalmologist Dr. Ammar Meerkhan (60), who all sought refuge in Istanbul, Turkey after escaping the Syrian civil war. In the emotional conversation they discuss what was lost and what they all struggle to find anew. Click here to read!

Written by Olufunke Abiola Moses + Illustration by Karabo Poppy Moletsane

[miadat]

When I read something, see something, or meet someone who is authentic it changes me in profound ways. I embrace it; I facilitate it; I am open to it. I think everyone should be a change agent. What choice do we have?

Raghava KK from the 1Q interview Bangalore to Brooklyn: The spontaneous journey of Raghava KK.

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Change. Be open to it. Embrace it. Become it. Happy Martin Luther King Day, USA! In this 1Q video interview clip, Indian artist, entrepreneur + TED talker Raghava KK, contemplates the meaning of change with James Navé.

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Start 2015 with FRESH insight + inspiration! Artist, entrepreneur, troublemaker + 4 x TED talker, Raghava KK on art, play, destiny, change, truth with poet + James Navé. Read it now at 1Qinspire.me.

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Every child is an artist. The problem is how to remain an artist once he grows up.

Pablo Picasso

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Magazine cover I art directed for CURIOSITY magazine, a collaboration between WSJ. Custom Solutions and Fifth Third Private Bank. The topic for the limited edition magazine is education and innovation.

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Everything you want is on the other side of fear.

George Addair