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Remember to forget me.

[pxlestine]

VIDEO: Living Under Israel’s Missiles

Four boys of the Bakr family were killed by a missile strike during last year’s incursion. Their surviving family members are still scarred from the attack.

More than anyone, children bear the brunt of regular Israeli military assaults on the Gaza Strip. During the 51-day war in the summer of 2014, 551 children were killed and 3,436 were injured. But these gruesome figures say little about the psychological state of the nearly 800,000 children who have survived the periodic bombing campaigns. After the final cease-fire that ended Israel’s Operation Protective Edge on August 26 of last year, UNICEF estimated that at least 425,000 Palestinian children in the besieged Gaza Strip require “immediate psychosocial and child protection support.”

[ The physical wounds of Gaza children might have healed, but they live with enduring psychological trauma ]

[moonlyaffairs]

He remembered her During Friday prayer Khutba. He remembered hearing The blaring echoed voice Through the microphone. “And of everything We have created pairs” Heaven and earth Night and day Sun and moon Shore and sea Light and darkness. Her, For him.

نسيب - Zienab Hamdan (moonlyaffairs)

[maza-dohta]

being a person of color in this country is like being a student in a fire safety class where the teacher repeatedly points at you, the only flame-kissed  body in a sea full of untouched skin, and asked if you ‘understand.’

Pavana पवन (via maza-dohta)

[maza-dohta]

[maza-dohta]

you said being an immigrant was like surviving a forest fire. suddenly you’re a road sign warning drivers for crossing deer, you’re a carcass on the side of the highway. you don’t belong here. you said once the fires die, firefighters will scour the grounds searching for the culprit - a matchstick, a cigarette perhaps. you will go to school and your teacher will have a special class dedicated to fire safety. your teacher will look at you and ask ‘do you understand?’ you will think of the deer dead on the side of the road, of wolf cubs that will never learn the name of the moon. you will think of bleeding trees. you will say 'yes. a matchstick burns only once, but a fire lasts forever.'  what you’ll mean is, 'i am still burning.’

Pavana पवन (via maza-dohta)

[maza-dohta]

Some days I wake up wondering where your next poem will come from. I turn over to your side of the bed, a crumpled piece of paper, and remember: without you, every morning is a poem, and there is nothing beautiful about it.

Pavana पवन  (via maza-dohta)

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no glasses who dis

[tzakartinsani]

i put so much out there and maybe one day it will be reciprocated. 

[tzakartinsani]

Surfside Beach, Texas 8/29-31/2015

[safagraphy]

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#RUGLIFE (Taif, Saudi Arabia; would have been cooler had the carpets not been shot at) 🇸🇦 #saudi #saudiarabia #arab #arabic #ksa #rug #carpet

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Bosnian couple

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[pyrrhic-victoria]

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Want. 😎 #arab #arabic #style #fashion #glasses

[thevintagearab-deactivated20180]

Veiled Woman, Algeria, nineteenth century postcard by Benbouzid

[muslimwomeninhistory]

…the reality is that while there’s much to be said about this topic, you cannot tell me that Allah and His Messenger delivered a religion that was meant to disempower women, to render them powerless so that they themselves cannot rise to the challenges that any human existence will present us with. We need empowered women – not just politically (which is what everyone immediately thinks of) but spiritually, psychologically, with inner strength — because part of the whole point of being empowered is that the issue ceases to be a contest between men and women, but rather a cooperative effort from both to live God-pleasing lives. You see when you are disempowered—this is what some of the brothers don’t understand—people who are disempowered are always reacting against people who they think are in power. That’s reality. And part of the point of empowering our women is for us to have healthier communities where they are not reacting against us. We are not the enemy; we are not the adversary. We are the partner. And we are mutually bound, male and female, to what Allah and His Messenger have said. Our role in this life is to try to come up with that which best serves that interest.  We have to have a conversation about this male-female thing.

Dr. Sherman Jackson, “Understanding Our Present and Looking to Our Future”

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(via muslimwomeninhistory)