ShieraM
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ShieraM
@shieram.bsky.social
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‘I can hear footsteps approaching my door well before the guards appear, which gives me enough time to hide my papers under the mattress. But even if they were discovered, they would just think I had gone mad.’ #ijaam #aniraqirhapsody #sinanantoon
These people lived in a so-called open-air prison, under siege for seventeen years, their calorie-intake counted by the Israeli state, their living conditions already “uninhabitable.” Yet there was a future there and it has been destroyed.’

#recognizingthestranger #isabellahammad #groveatlantic
‘A past has been demolished — universities, places of worship, writers, educators, journalists, little children, elderly people who remember the Nakba of 1948 — and a future has been demolished. What future? you might ask.
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De-linking is…the only realistic response to the liberal utopia.

#re-readingthepostwarperiod #samiramin #criticaldevelopmentstudies #development
‘This book focuses on figures for whom the intellectual domain itself had to be undone in order to know something about the world around us.’

#ofblackstudy @plutopress #webdubois #sylviawynter #jacobcarruthers #cedricrobinson #tonicadebambara #joshuamyers
‘We rise, and I began to feel a strange elation, one of thousands, moving at the same time, bowing at the same time, rising at the same time. It did not matter who or what I was. I was present.’

#enterghost #isabellahammad #hamlet #palestine
‘[It] is…a distortion…from which…dominant social theories and ideologies suffer.’
‘[It] is…not a banal ethnocentrism testifying…to the limited horizons beyond which no people on this planet has yet…been able to go. [It] is a…modern phenomenon, the roots of which go back only to the Renaissance [and] the 19th century.’
‘[Eurocentrism] constitutes one dimension of the culture and ideology of the modern capitalist world.’ #eurocentrism #samiramin #otherarchives #otherarchivesexist
‘What is the purpose of the mind in heaven?’

#scatteredsouls #shahnazbashir @shahnazbashir.official #kashmir #shortstories
‘A poem is not just words placed on a line. It’s a cloth.’

‘[Poems are] works that document the lives of those authors and the places they lived.’

‘They are inviting me to live their experience.’

#thingsyoumayfindhiddeninmyear #mosababutoha #gaza #palestine
‘If you pointed out something uncomfortable or too “real,” they asked you for proof. But no proof was ever good enough for them, especially if it was inconvenient for them to acknowledge.’

#tilt #intergenerationaltrauma #rowmanandlittlefield #meghanavnayak
‘Technology and media pretend to provide a world that is internetted — all they deliver is a world of shadows.’

#anamcara #abookofcelticwisdom #johnodonohue
‘A terrorised society will behave like an unthinking, submissive mob for a long time. Feeding it is enough to make it obey. Provided with amusements, it’s happy. The rather small arsenal of tricks has not changed in millennia.’

#theshahofshahs #ryszardkapuściński #crevicemoments
‘The revolution — in its essence and its substance [and] its local leadership — was a peasant revolt.’

‘At no point in the entire history of the Palestinian struggle was the armed popular revolution as close to victory as it was…from the end of 1937 to the beginning of 1938.’
And I’ve been living here, quietly, beside you, for years, just waiting for…the high sign.’

#whentheemperorwasdivine #julieotsuka #japaneseinternment
‘I’m the slant-eyed sniper in the trees.

I’m the saboteur in the shrubs.

I’m the stranger at the gate.

I’m the traitor in your own backyard.

I’m your houseboy.

I’m your cook.

I’m your gardener.
‘Common challenges: to consistently justify its opposition to social integration and to explain, in an infinitesimally precise manner, the process of turning Judaism into a state and a nation.’

#kanafani #onzionistliterature #literarycriticism
‘Zamzam walked back through a town that was beginning to bloom as a new capital in an independent state. Immigrants pouring in, the families and tribes of those who had borne the rages of this war, who had paid the prices for victory.’

#riverspirit #leilaaboulela