Yahia Lababidi
@ysl.bsky.social
Author of 🇵🇸 Palestine Wail, What Remains To Be Said & 11 other books : aphorisms, poetry, essays, and conversations.
👉 https://www.amazon.com/stores/author/B0042SRQWG
Exploring art, spirit, and conscience.
#WritingCommunity #BookSky
👉 https://www.amazon.com/stores/author/B0042SRQWG
Exploring art, spirit, and conscience.
#WritingCommunity #BookSky
Pinned
Exiled Palestinian poet, Mourid Barghouti describes returning to #Palestine for the first time in three decades:
“The homeland does not leave the body until the last moment, the moment of death.
The fish,
Even in the fisherman's net,
Still carries
The smell of the sea."
#Gaza #booksky
“The homeland does not leave the body until the last moment, the moment of death.
The fish,
Even in the fisherman's net,
Still carries
The smell of the sea."
#Gaza #booksky
February 15, 2026 at 3:16 PM
Exiled Palestinian poet, Mourid Barghouti describes returning to #Palestine for the first time in three decades:
“The homeland does not leave the body until the last moment, the moment of death.
The fish,
Even in the fisherman's net,
Still carries
The smell of the sea."
#Gaza #booksky
“The homeland does not leave the body until the last moment, the moment of death.
The fish,
Even in the fisherman's net,
Still carries
The smell of the sea."
#Gaza #booksky
If religions are understood
as organized Love
then, by definition,
hate is heresy.
as organized Love
then, by definition,
hate is heresy.
February 15, 2026 at 3:05 PM
If religions are understood
as organized Love
then, by definition,
hate is heresy.
as organized Love
then, by definition,
hate is heresy.
‘Do not see the faults of others, keep secret their wrongdoings, and advise them only when no one can hear.
Feel the evil and terror of your ego, and the shame of going along with it.’
—— Imam Sulami (d. 11th C CE) Kitab al-Futuwwah
youtube.com/shorts/PnbTy... #booksky #Islam
Feel the evil and terror of your ego, and the shame of going along with it.’
—— Imam Sulami (d. 11th C CE) Kitab al-Futuwwah
youtube.com/shorts/PnbTy... #booksky #Islam
February 15, 2026 at 3:00 PM
‘Do not see the faults of others, keep secret their wrongdoings, and advise them only when no one can hear.
Feel the evil and terror of your ego, and the shame of going along with it.’
—— Imam Sulami (d. 11th C CE) Kitab al-Futuwwah
youtube.com/shorts/PnbTy... #booksky #Islam
Feel the evil and terror of your ego, and the shame of going along with it.’
—— Imam Sulami (d. 11th C CE) Kitab al-Futuwwah
youtube.com/shorts/PnbTy... #booksky #Islam
It has been deeply heartening to watch this post travel so widely over the past few days.
I take it as a sign that people long for peace—and respond when someone reaches across what divides us in a spirit of shared humanity.
#Palestine #Israel #peace #poetry #news
I take it as a sign that people long for peace—and respond when someone reaches across what divides us in a spirit of shared humanity.
#Palestine #Israel #peace #poetry #news
February 15, 2026 at 2:14 PM
It has been deeply heartening to watch this post travel so widely over the past few days.
I take it as a sign that people long for peace—and respond when someone reaches across what divides us in a spirit of shared humanity.
#Palestine #Israel #peace #poetry #news
I take it as a sign that people long for peace—and respond when someone reaches across what divides us in a spirit of shared humanity.
#Palestine #Israel #peace #poetry #news
February 15, 2026 at 1:26 PM
Reposted by Yahia Lababidi
“Within each of us is a kingdom: the heart its sovereign, reason its counselor, anger its sentinel, desire its collector of dues.”
— Al-Ghazali
islamichorizons.net/the-silence-... #Ramadan #Islam #writingcommunity
— Al-Ghazali
islamichorizons.net/the-silence-... #Ramadan #Islam #writingcommunity
The Silence that Saved a Beloved Scholar – Islamic Horizons
A Meditation on Abu Hamid al-Ghazali
islamichorizons.net
February 15, 2026 at 12:43 AM
“Within each of us is a kingdom: the heart its sovereign, reason its counselor, anger its sentinel, desire its collector of dues.”
— Al-Ghazali
islamichorizons.net/the-silence-... #Ramadan #Islam #writingcommunity
— Al-Ghazali
islamichorizons.net/the-silence-... #Ramadan #Islam #writingcommunity
As Much As You Can
And even if you cannot make your life the way you want it,
this much, at least, try to do
as much as you can: don't cheapen it
with too much intercourse with society
…
so it becomes like a stranger, burdensome.
— Cavafy
m.soundcloud.com/yahia-lababi... #poetry
And even if you cannot make your life the way you want it,
this much, at least, try to do
as much as you can: don't cheapen it
with too much intercourse with society
…
so it becomes like a stranger, burdensome.
— Cavafy
m.soundcloud.com/yahia-lababi... #poetry
As Much As You Can, by Constantine Cavafy - read by Yahia Lababidi
Stream As Much As You Can, by Constantine Cavafy - read by Yahia Lababidi by Yahia Lababidi on desktop and mobile. Play over 320 million tracks for free on SoundCloud.
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February 15, 2026 at 1:10 AM
As Much As You Can
And even if you cannot make your life the way you want it,
this much, at least, try to do
as much as you can: don't cheapen it
with too much intercourse with society
…
so it becomes like a stranger, burdensome.
— Cavafy
m.soundcloud.com/yahia-lababi... #poetry
And even if you cannot make your life the way you want it,
this much, at least, try to do
as much as you can: don't cheapen it
with too much intercourse with society
…
so it becomes like a stranger, burdensome.
— Cavafy
m.soundcloud.com/yahia-lababi... #poetry
“Within each of us is a kingdom: the heart its sovereign, reason its counselor, anger its sentinel, desire its collector of dues.”
— Al-Ghazali
islamichorizons.net/the-silence-... #Ramadan #Islam #writingcommunity
— Al-Ghazali
islamichorizons.net/the-silence-... #Ramadan #Islam #writingcommunity
The Silence that Saved a Beloved Scholar – Islamic Horizons
A Meditation on Abu Hamid al-Ghazali
islamichorizons.net
February 15, 2026 at 12:43 AM
“Within each of us is a kingdom: the heart its sovereign, reason its counselor, anger its sentinel, desire its collector of dues.”
— Al-Ghazali
islamichorizons.net/the-silence-... #Ramadan #Islam #writingcommunity
— Al-Ghazali
islamichorizons.net/the-silence-... #Ramadan #Islam #writingcommunity
We ourselves are a seed of love that has become visible between nature and spirit or art.
— Novalis
— Novalis
February 14, 2026 at 11:50 PM
We ourselves are a seed of love that has become visible between nature and spirit or art.
— Novalis
— Novalis
The world must be romanticized. Thus will its original meaning be rediscovered…
Every beloved object is the center of the paradise.
— Novalis
Every beloved object is the center of the paradise.
— Novalis
February 14, 2026 at 11:47 PM
The world must be romanticized. Thus will its original meaning be rediscovered…
Every beloved object is the center of the paradise.
— Novalis
Every beloved object is the center of the paradise.
— Novalis
Reposted by Yahia Lababidi
Reviewing "The Reluctant Fundamentalist," Yahia Lababidi (@ysl.bsky.social) connects Mohsen Hamid's 2007 novel to Palestine, arguing that "the novel becomes an allegory for the gaze that decides who is seen, who is feared and who may speak."
The Mirror and the Empire: Reading “The Reluctant Fundamentalist” in the Age of Palestine
If we assume danger because a Pakistani man leans toward an American, the mirror condemns us. If we sense only the peril to Changez, we miss the shared vulnerability that binds the two men. The more g...
dawnmena.org
January 28, 2026 at 6:13 PM
Reviewing "The Reluctant Fundamentalist," Yahia Lababidi (@ysl.bsky.social) connects Mohsen Hamid's 2007 novel to Palestine, arguing that "the novel becomes an allegory for the gaze that decides who is seen, who is feared and who may speak."
The first principle is that you must not fool yourself—and you are the easiest person to fool.
Richard Feynman
Richard Feynman
February 14, 2026 at 10:13 PM
The first principle is that you must not fool yourself—and you are the easiest person to fool.
Richard Feynman
Richard Feynman
February 14, 2026 at 9:22 PM
Patti Smith kissing the Palestinian flag on stage
February 14, 2026 at 8:08 PM
Patti Smith kissing the Palestinian flag on stage
It's not lovers who
compose poetry,
but Love.
compose poetry,
but Love.
February 14, 2026 at 7:48 PM
It's not lovers who
compose poetry,
but Love.
compose poetry,
but Love.
"Where there is love there is life."
— Gandhi
— Gandhi
February 14, 2026 at 7:46 PM
"Where there is love there is life."
— Gandhi
— Gandhi
Love is... the key for all stubborn locks.
February 14, 2026 at 7:35 PM
Love is... the key for all stubborn locks.
thinking of existence
as a great love story,
where every shy creature
or timid truth
longs to be courted...
as a great love story,
where every shy creature
or timid truth
longs to be courted...
February 14, 2026 at 7:33 PM
thinking of existence
as a great love story,
where every shy creature
or timid truth
longs to be courted...
as a great love story,
where every shy creature
or timid truth
longs to be courted...
How many loved your moments of glad grace,
And loved your beauty with love false or true,
But one man loved the pilgrim soul in you,
And loved the sorrows of your changing face;
—WB Yeats
And loved your beauty with love false or true,
But one man loved the pilgrim soul in you,
And loved the sorrows of your changing face;
—WB Yeats
February 14, 2026 at 7:27 PM
How many loved your moments of glad grace,
And loved your beauty with love false or true,
But one man loved the pilgrim soul in you,
And loved the sorrows of your changing face;
—WB Yeats
And loved your beauty with love false or true,
But one man loved the pilgrim soul in you,
And loved the sorrows of your changing face;
—WB Yeats
February 14, 2026 at 7:27 PM
If Love were not
always a step ahead
how would it ensure
we kept up the chase?
always a step ahead
how would it ensure
we kept up the chase?
February 14, 2026 at 5:42 PM
If Love were not
always a step ahead
how would it ensure
we kept up the chase?
always a step ahead
how would it ensure
we kept up the chase?
For comic relief, an 1880's guide for kissing 🙃
February 14, 2026 at 5:32 PM
For comic relief, an 1880's guide for kissing 🙃