Najeeba's Peace

See www.najeeba.com for more info.Professor Najeeba Syeed teaches interreligious education at http://www.cst.edu, Claremont School of Theology. Find her on twitter @najeebasyeed Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/pages/Najeeba-Syeed-miller/138101682881264

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@PoetryFound: Celebrate @UNESCO World Poetry Day! Read poem samples from Poets in the World books: http://t.co/ucSjGB4yTN http://t.co/eqKZQgWkUs

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My beloved daughter, today five years ago, on this day you came into this world. Since that day, every moment has been full of life and you’ve never failed to make our days burst with joy.

Know that you come from a line of strong women. Your great-grandmother a poet in the Valley of Kashmir,...

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The abundance of the heart. For in this internal landscape I live in a luxurious setting without curbing its ornaments.

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Lecture delivered by Professor Syeed-Miller at Arizona State University's Center for the Study of Religion and Conflict on questions posed in the study and practice of religion and peacemaking.

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Our capacity to love needs nurturing,it needs rest, to grow it we must also protect it and care for it.Love needs love.

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My beloved daughter, today five years ago, on this day you came into this world. Since that day, every moment has been full of life and you’ve never failed to make our days burst with joy.

Know that you come from a line of strong women. Your great-grandmother a poet in the Valley of...

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In honor of Intl Day of the Girl, reposting my love letter to my daughter

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A sandy walk

I was shelled today in loneliness founded on the shores of her lap left for a motionless rock,

I am walking along landscapes uncontoured but for maps laden with empty pages.

You cannot find me, I have hidden in the guise of sea grasses that whip ashore.

The black silt forms warm lines along half mooned reflections.

Insignificance is comforting some days, it magnifies the inner workings of the heart.

Where might we meet in quietude? In my oneness I embrace a fragmented

self, she is shelved breezed into one being a salted breath.

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Radicalizing Empathy

Radicalizing Empathy #3 not all activists activate nor instigate aloud the quiet man, cornered in a room,may make the brushing of the ground monumental, our Prophet loved the people who swept the mosque. there may be greatness in speech, rhetoric in oratory of men and women who soar with the wings of words. perhaps sometimes we might incline to remember movement making must have backbones,hard, cured. contemplation is the purview of those quiet enough to hear their thoughts.

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Do not let the inability of others to reconcile your different streams of identity incapacitate you from embracing yourself.

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Happy to see my second article out on "A Gendered Understanding of Just Peacemaking&Digital Peacebuilding"

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The movement which is the existence of the universe is the movement of love. Ibn 'Arabi

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“We need in every bay and community a group of angelic troublemakers.” ― Bayard Rustin #marchonwashington organizer

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On the way to walking my children to a school saw two wild parrots and a hummingbird.What small wonders keep the heart alive.#shukr #thanks

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For some healing is a luxury, yet without care to it this brokenness seeps into our blood as the legacy we pass on to next generations.

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If only human attention was as riveted by peacemakers as it is by those who do nothing but harm others,even how we teach history reflects this...

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Some days our strength is our human fragility.