Lena Khalaf Tuffaha
@lenakt.bsky.social
Poet, Translator, Essayist.
Reposted by Lena Khalaf Tuffaha
Gaza is becoming a graveyard without the luxury of graves.
Yousef Aljamal writes about how his heart freezes every day as he reads of the disappearances of his neighbors, friends, and family in the violence brought by Israel.
Yousef Aljamal writes about how his heart freezes every day as he reads of the disappearances of his neighbors, friends, and family in the violence brought by Israel.
Gaza’s Nightmare
Gaza is becoming a graveyard without the luxury of graves.
inthesetimes.com
October 1, 2025 at 4:21 PM
Gaza is becoming a graveyard without the luxury of graves.
Yousef Aljamal writes about how his heart freezes every day as he reads of the disappearances of his neighbors, friends, and family in the violence brought by Israel.
Yousef Aljamal writes about how his heart freezes every day as he reads of the disappearances of his neighbors, friends, and family in the violence brought by Israel.
Reposted by Lena Khalaf Tuffaha
🚨 Israeli warships have surrounded the Global Sumud Flotilla — over 50 vessels.
The flotilla insists on breaking the blockade to deliver aid to Gaza.
The flotilla insists on breaking the blockade to deliver aid to Gaza.
October 1, 2025 at 6:41 PM
🚨 Israeli warships have surrounded the Global Sumud Flotilla — over 50 vessels.
The flotilla insists on breaking the blockade to deliver aid to Gaza.
The flotilla insists on breaking the blockade to deliver aid to Gaza.
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BREAKING: Union in Italy has announced a general strike on October 3, as per their promise if the Gaza flotilla was attacked, as it has been now.
October 1, 2025 at 6:54 PM
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Blue butterfly lalalaland Wake Up
⭕️ Latest Field Updates | Ongoing Massacres: The Genocidal War on Gaza Enters Day 725
➤ Gaza City: One person killed in a drone strike on the Mashahra area in Tuffah; several injured in a strike on an apartment near the Education Directorate in Yarmouk; more wounded in a strike near al-Shifa...
➤ Gaza City: One person killed in a drone strike on the Mashahra area in Tuffah; several injured in a strike on an apartment near the Education Directorate in Yarmouk; more wounded in a strike near al-Shifa...
October 1, 2025 at 6:53 PM
Blue butterfly lalalaland Wake Up
If you’re in Seattle, stop by @openpoetrybooks.bsky.social & sign up for POETRY OFFICE HOURS. I’ll be in the store on Fri 9/12 12:30-2:30 & look forward to talking about that poem you’ve been working on, sharing a prompt to get you writing again, or offering reading recommendations. See you there! 📚
September 8, 2025 at 11:06 PM
If you’re in Seattle, stop by @openpoetrybooks.bsky.social & sign up for POETRY OFFICE HOURS. I’ll be in the store on Fri 9/12 12:30-2:30 & look forward to talking about that poem you’ve been working on, sharing a prompt to get you writing again, or offering reading recommendations. See you there! 📚
Uncle Tom (Barrack) is originally from Lebanon. Which makes sense because only a self-hating Arab could address Arabs with venomous disdain that outdoes that of his racist masters.
Allah yerhamek ya Helen Thomas. She would have mopped the floor with him.
Allah yerhamek ya Helen Thomas. She would have mopped the floor with him.
August 27, 2025 at 2:34 PM
Uncle Tom (Barrack) is originally from Lebanon. Which makes sense because only a self-hating Arab could address Arabs with venomous disdain that outdoes that of his racist masters.
Allah yerhamek ya Helen Thomas. She would have mopped the floor with him.
Allah yerhamek ya Helen Thomas. She would have mopped the floor with him.
August 8, 2025 at 6:05 PM
Day 6
لا أريد لهذه القصيدة أن تنتهي
محمود درويش
I Don’t Want This Poem to End
By Mahmoud Darwish
Trans by Mohammad Shaheen
#TheSealeyChallenge
#EndtheGenocide
Link to support The Sameer Project here:
linktr.ee/thesameerpro...
لا أريد لهذه القصيدة أن تنتهي
محمود درويش
I Don’t Want This Poem to End
By Mahmoud Darwish
Trans by Mohammad Shaheen
#TheSealeyChallenge
#EndtheGenocide
Link to support The Sameer Project here:
linktr.ee/thesameerpro...
August 6, 2025 at 11:49 PM
Day 6
لا أريد لهذه القصيدة أن تنتهي
محمود درويش
I Don’t Want This Poem to End
By Mahmoud Darwish
Trans by Mohammad Shaheen
#TheSealeyChallenge
#EndtheGenocide
Link to support The Sameer Project here:
linktr.ee/thesameerpro...
لا أريد لهذه القصيدة أن تنتهي
محمود درويش
I Don’t Want This Poem to End
By Mahmoud Darwish
Trans by Mohammad Shaheen
#TheSealeyChallenge
#EndtheGenocide
Link to support The Sameer Project here:
linktr.ee/thesameerpro...
Day 4
Living Room
by June Jordan
#thesealeychallenge
#EndtheGenocide
Support The Sameer Project here:
linktr.ee/thesameerpro...
Living Room
by June Jordan
#thesealeychallenge
#EndtheGenocide
Support The Sameer Project here:
linktr.ee/thesameerpro...
August 5, 2025 at 3:34 AM
Day 4
Living Room
by June Jordan
#thesealeychallenge
#EndtheGenocide
Support The Sameer Project here:
linktr.ee/thesameerpro...
Living Room
by June Jordan
#thesealeychallenge
#EndtheGenocide
Support The Sameer Project here:
linktr.ee/thesameerpro...
Day 3
Heaven Looks Like Us
Edited by George Abraham & Noor Hindi
poem by Yahya Ashour
#EndtheGenocide
#TheSealeyChallenge
Donate to The Sameer Project here
linktr.ee/thesameerpro...
Heaven Looks Like Us
Edited by George Abraham & Noor Hindi
poem by Yahya Ashour
#EndtheGenocide
#TheSealeyChallenge
Donate to The Sameer Project here
linktr.ee/thesameerpro...
August 4, 2025 at 1:10 AM
Day 3
Heaven Looks Like Us
Edited by George Abraham & Noor Hindi
poem by Yahya Ashour
#EndtheGenocide
#TheSealeyChallenge
Donate to The Sameer Project here
linktr.ee/thesameerpro...
Heaven Looks Like Us
Edited by George Abraham & Noor Hindi
poem by Yahya Ashour
#EndtheGenocide
#TheSealeyChallenge
Donate to The Sameer Project here
linktr.ee/thesameerpro...
Day 2
Modern Palestinian Literature
Edited by Salma Khadra Jayyusi
Poem by Mu’een Bseiso
Translated by May Jayyusi & Naomi Shihab Nye
#TheSealeyChallenge
#EndtheGenocide
Modern Palestinian Literature
Edited by Salma Khadra Jayyusi
Poem by Mu’een Bseiso
Translated by May Jayyusi & Naomi Shihab Nye
#TheSealeyChallenge
#EndtheGenocide
August 3, 2025 at 4:55 AM
Day 2
Modern Palestinian Literature
Edited by Salma Khadra Jayyusi
Poem by Mu’een Bseiso
Translated by May Jayyusi & Naomi Shihab Nye
#TheSealeyChallenge
#EndtheGenocide
Modern Palestinian Literature
Edited by Salma Khadra Jayyusi
Poem by Mu’een Bseiso
Translated by May Jayyusi & Naomi Shihab Nye
#TheSealeyChallenge
#EndtheGenocide
Reposted by Lena Khalaf Tuffaha
My goodness. Journalists having to call in saying they’re too hungry to work. This isn’t dystopia: this is the reality Palestinians in Gaza live in. Meanwhile their Western counterparts are still describing hospitals in Gaza as “Hamas run”.
🚨BREAKING: The last journalists working for AFP in Gaza have said they can no longer work for the news agency.
They are out of energy and they are starving to death.
I have never seen a statement from a news organisation like it.
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They are out of energy and they are starving to death.
I have never seen a statement from a news organisation like it.
🧵
July 21, 2025 at 11:52 PM
My goodness. Journalists having to call in saying they’re too hungry to work. This isn’t dystopia: this is the reality Palestinians in Gaza live in. Meanwhile their Western counterparts are still describing hospitals in Gaza as “Hamas run”.
Reposted by Lena Khalaf Tuffaha
this August I'm committing to read 31 books of poetry for the #sealeychallenge; pledge to sponsor my challenge through donations to the sameer project (link below) & mobilize each day to #EndtheGenocideinGaza
August 1, 2025 at 5:29 PM
this August I'm committing to read 31 books of poetry for the #sealeychallenge; pledge to sponsor my challenge through donations to the sameer project (link below) & mobilize each day to #EndtheGenocideinGaza
Day 1
Born Palestinian Born Black by Suheir Hammad
If you are participating in #TheSealeyChallenge, read Palestinian poets and use this space to call for #EndtheGenocide and support The Sameer Project, a Palestinian-led mutual aid fund saving lives in Gaza.
linktr.ee/thesameerpro...
Born Palestinian Born Black by Suheir Hammad
If you are participating in #TheSealeyChallenge, read Palestinian poets and use this space to call for #EndtheGenocide and support The Sameer Project, a Palestinian-led mutual aid fund saving lives in Gaza.
linktr.ee/thesameerpro...
August 1, 2025 at 7:03 PM
Day 1
Born Palestinian Born Black by Suheir Hammad
If you are participating in #TheSealeyChallenge, read Palestinian poets and use this space to call for #EndtheGenocide and support The Sameer Project, a Palestinian-led mutual aid fund saving lives in Gaza.
linktr.ee/thesameerpro...
Born Palestinian Born Black by Suheir Hammad
If you are participating in #TheSealeyChallenge, read Palestinian poets and use this space to call for #EndtheGenocide and support The Sameer Project, a Palestinian-led mutual aid fund saving lives in Gaza.
linktr.ee/thesameerpro...