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
...a monk who also has to ring his own bell
so that the world knows the chapel is open.
so that the world knows the chapel is open.
February 12, 2026 at 2:16 AM
...a monk who also has to ring his own bell
so that the world knows the chapel is open.
so that the world knows the chapel is open.
“What did it mean to be part of a nation that I believed was engaged in evil?”
— David Stromberg, Letter From Jerusalem
salmagundi.skidmore.edu/articles/170... #Israel #Palestine #USA #news
— David Stromberg, Letter From Jerusalem
salmagundi.skidmore.edu/articles/170... #Israel #Palestine #USA #news
On Jewish Evil - Salmagundi Magazine
<h1 style="text-align: center;">1.</h1>    Evil has been on my mind a lot over the past two and a half years—really since Benjamin Netanyahu returned to power in December 2022 and began ...
salmagundi.skidmore.edu
February 12, 2026 at 1:37 AM
“What did it mean to be part of a nation that I believed was engaged in evil?”
— David Stromberg, Letter From Jerusalem
salmagundi.skidmore.edu/articles/170... #Israel #Palestine #USA #news
— David Stromberg, Letter From Jerusalem
salmagundi.skidmore.edu/articles/170... #Israel #Palestine #USA #news
#Art by Hisham Shdaifat, #artist from #Jordan known for his pieces made of tree roots and wires, addressing humanitarian issues, often #Palestine.
February 12, 2026 at 1:00 AM
#Art by Hisham Shdaifat, #artist from #Jordan known for his pieces made of tree roots and wires, addressing humanitarian issues, often #Palestine.
When we go deep enough or high enough, we meet.
It is only on the surface that we differ and sometimes clash.
— Ameen Rihani
It is only on the surface that we differ and sometimes clash.
— Ameen Rihani
February 12, 2026 at 12:54 AM
When we go deep enough or high enough, we meet.
It is only on the surface that we differ and sometimes clash.
— Ameen Rihani
It is only on the surface that we differ and sometimes clash.
— Ameen Rihani
“To idealize: all #writing is a campaign against cliché. Not just clichés of the pen but clichés of the mind and clichés of the heart.”
— Martin Amis
— Martin Amis
February 12, 2026 at 12:38 AM
“To idealize: all #writing is a campaign against cliché. Not just clichés of the pen but clichés of the mind and clichés of the heart.”
— Martin Amis
— Martin Amis
February 11, 2026 at 11:41 PM
February 11, 2026 at 6:39 PM
الصبر مفتاح الفرج
Patience is the key to relief
الزيتونة بتظل تظلّل حتى الحرامي
The olive tree gives shade even to the thief
اللي بشرب من البير ما برمي فيه حجر
Do not throw a stone into the well you drink from
اللي بزرع شوك ما بحصد عنب
He who sows thorns will not harvest grapes
#Arabic #proverbs
Patience is the key to relief
الزيتونة بتظل تظلّل حتى الحرامي
The olive tree gives shade even to the thief
اللي بشرب من البير ما برمي فيه حجر
Do not throw a stone into the well you drink from
اللي بزرع شوك ما بحصد عنب
He who sows thorns will not harvest grapes
#Arabic #proverbs
February 11, 2026 at 5:38 PM
"الذي يحكي القصص هو الذي يحكم العالم."
"The one who tells the stories rules the
world."
"The one who tells the stories rules the
world."
February 11, 2026 at 5:35 PM
"الذي يحكي القصص هو الذي يحكم العالم."
"The one who tells the stories rules the
world."
"The one who tells the stories rules the
world."
Revisiting my heart-to-heart with Alison Phipps @alisonphipps.bsky.social , UNESCO Chair in Refugee Integration through Languages & Arts at University of Glasgow @uofglasgowasc.bsky.social
#Video: youtu.be/npBGwUSQOjU
#FreePalestine #palestine #gaza #poetry #booksky #writingcommunity #scotland
#Video: youtu.be/npBGwUSQOjU
#FreePalestine #palestine #gaza #poetry #booksky #writingcommunity #scotland
What Remains to be Said
YouTube video by Iona Community
youtu.be
February 11, 2026 at 5:30 PM
Revisiting my heart-to-heart with Alison Phipps @alisonphipps.bsky.social , UNESCO Chair in Refugee Integration through Languages & Arts at University of Glasgow @uofglasgowasc.bsky.social
#Video: youtu.be/npBGwUSQOjU
#FreePalestine #palestine #gaza #poetry #booksky #writingcommunity #scotland
#Video: youtu.be/npBGwUSQOjU
#FreePalestine #palestine #gaza #poetry #booksky #writingcommunity #scotland
Just rise up again from every fall from a great height! Either you’ll fall to your death or you’ll grow wings.
— M. V. E-E 🪽
— M. V. E-E 🪽
February 11, 2026 at 4:30 PM
Just rise up again from every fall from a great height! Either you’ll fall to your death or you’ll grow wings.
— M. V. E-E 🪽
— M. V. E-E 🪽
“An intelligent woman has millions of born enemies…
all the stupid men.”
— Marie von Ebner-Eschenbach (1830–1916)
all the stupid men.”
— Marie von Ebner-Eschenbach (1830–1916)
February 11, 2026 at 4:19 PM
“An intelligent woman has millions of born enemies…
all the stupid men.”
— Marie von Ebner-Eschenbach (1830–1916)
all the stupid men.”
— Marie von Ebner-Eschenbach (1830–1916)
Every limit is a beginning as well as an ending.
George Eliot
George Eliot
February 10, 2026 at 10:44 PM
Every limit is a beginning as well as an ending.
George Eliot
George Eliot
Imperious despot, insolent in strife,
Lover of ruin, enemy of life!
You mock the anguish of an impotent land
Whose people’s blood has stained your tyrant hand,
And desecrate the magic of this earth,
sowing your thorns, to bring despair to birth
— Abul Qasim al-Shabi,
The Tyrant #poetry
Lover of ruin, enemy of life!
You mock the anguish of an impotent land
Whose people’s blood has stained your tyrant hand,
And desecrate the magic of this earth,
sowing your thorns, to bring despair to birth
— Abul Qasim al-Shabi,
The Tyrant #poetry
February 10, 2026 at 5:51 PM
Imperious despot, insolent in strife,
Lover of ruin, enemy of life!
You mock the anguish of an impotent land
Whose people’s blood has stained your tyrant hand,
And desecrate the magic of this earth,
sowing your thorns, to bring despair to birth
— Abul Qasim al-Shabi,
The Tyrant #poetry
Lover of ruin, enemy of life!
You mock the anguish of an impotent land
Whose people’s blood has stained your tyrant hand,
And desecrate the magic of this earth,
sowing your thorns, to bring despair to birth
— Abul Qasim al-Shabi,
The Tyrant #poetry
Leap, and the Net will appear.
February 10, 2026 at 4:35 PM
Leap, and the Net will appear.
You can't be too dismissive
of the puppet show—so long
as you have strings attached
Seek your freedom, marionette
and take back your reins
into your own firm hands.
youtube.com/shorts/PyMPo... #poetry #writing
of the puppet show—so long
as you have strings attached
Seek your freedom, marionette
and take back your reins
into your own firm hands.
youtube.com/shorts/PyMPo... #poetry #writing
February 10, 2026 at 4:30 PM
You can't be too dismissive
of the puppet show—so long
as you have strings attached
Seek your freedom, marionette
and take back your reins
into your own firm hands.
youtube.com/shorts/PyMPo... #poetry #writing
of the puppet show—so long
as you have strings attached
Seek your freedom, marionette
and take back your reins
into your own firm hands.
youtube.com/shorts/PyMPo... #poetry #writing
This morning, an essay of mine, 'Field Notes from the Desert’ has been accepted for a forthcoming issue of @channel-lit.bsky.social , #Ireland
channelmag.org
#nature #photography © Zakaria Wakrim
channelmag.org
#nature #photography © Zakaria Wakrim
February 10, 2026 at 2:34 PM
This morning, an essay of mine, 'Field Notes from the Desert’ has been accepted for a forthcoming issue of @channel-lit.bsky.social , #Ireland
channelmag.org
#nature #photography © Zakaria Wakrim
channelmag.org
#nature #photography © Zakaria Wakrim
The poet must not cross an interval with a step when he can cross it with a leap.
Joubert
Joubert
February 10, 2026 at 3:03 AM
The poet must not cross an interval with a step when he can cross it with a leap.
Joubert
Joubert
…a man tormented by the cursed ambition to put a whole book in a page, a whole page in a sentence, and that sentence in one word…
— Joubert
— Joubert
February 10, 2026 at 2:56 AM
…a man tormented by the cursed ambition to put a whole book in a page, a whole page in a sentence, and that sentence in one word…
— Joubert
— Joubert