Out of Place

Edward Said was also. From his memoir.

Interview on my book

This interview on my book was actually recorded at Leeds University a few years ago, but it just came out. It’s a good conversation with Sofia Rehman!

https://newbooksnetwork.com/004-american-muslim-women-on-campus

Palestinian life illustrated guide

This is a great site about a horrible reality:

https://interactive.aljazeera.com/aje/2024/israel-occupation-illustrated-guide/

Student Encampments 🍉

my cats

Friday night family zikr with subtitles

I felt grief and zikr bubbling up inside me. So our little family and cat gathered for a circle tonight. It was lovely; I felt Presence. We sent love and sawab to all the shuhada, and prayed for all our flourishing and freedom — from Palestine to the Amazon and Xinjiang.

My Chishti Sabri silsila does loud zikr and I follow the usual pattern my pir set. But today I interspersed occasional rhythmic English formulae: La ilaha illallah mixed with the occasional there is no god but Allah, no beloved but Allah, there is no goal but Allah, there is no one but Allah. And starting rabbuna Allah, hasbunallah, and tawakkaltu Allah with the translations.

White spouse and browncasian child appreciated the inclusion, and indeed so did I. It does help me reach all the corners of the words when I travel through Arabic, Urdu, English, and Persian.

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the taste of propaganda lies

Over the past two months, I’ve read a number of exposés discrediting numerous Israeli propaganda campaigns. I’ve come to realize that most people in the world do not even spend time wrestling with racist fabrications about Palestinians. They know what colonizers do.

Debunking happens pretty easily, almost immediately, and no one is actually surprised. Except for Zionists and their sympathizers, no one takes that propaganda seriously. The taste of the lie exposes it.

Prison break

I want the United States and Europe out of the region out of all our lands. Wherever they show up with their pasty faces, their doublespeak, their bottomless greed, everything turns to shit. The whole SWANA region is ablaze with old and new Euro/US/Israeli fires.

It is unbearable that Palestinians are so horribly, constantly vulnerable to the absolute worst violence, death, dispossession in their own land. We must stop waiting for validation of what we know to be true: That Palestine must be free. We must all be free.

The architects of our captivity, the builders of our prisons will never validate our freedom. Their NY Times, their CNN, their ICC, their BBC, their EU, their universities, their authorities will never willingly stamp our papers of emancipation. It must be a prison break.

keyboard warrior

On the day of judgement, Muslims believe our body parts will bear witness to the good/bad actions they did.

I’m at the point where my finger-tips will say “we boosted a lot of good causes on the internet” and the other body parts will be like “yeah, we got nothing”

Dying kings, crumbling crowns Bring them down, burn it down