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Ahmed Sarsour

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"Don't leave us behind," by Ahmed Sarsour Part 1
#FreePalestine #poetry #savegaza

November 26, 2025 at 5:43 PM

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November 25, 2025 at 1:05 AM

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Ahmed Sarsour

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Tomorrow abook full of my poems will be here!

“Join us for the opening of Shopping Against Genocide this Friday, November 14th from 5pm to 8pm at No Limits! Art Castle on the Wallen. None other than Tofik Dibi will do the opening remarks.

Come and spend your money and help against genocide!!!”

November 14, 2025 at 12:15 AM

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Pray for Jamaica. This is bad.

October 28, 2025 at 5:05 PM

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Ahmed Sarsour

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"A New Hijra!" By Ahmed Sarsour.

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#Gaza #Palestine #BreakTheSiege #FreedomFlotilla #MarchToGaza
#CeasefireNow #Genocide #FreePalestine

October 27, 2025 at 4:15 PM

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tangomushi

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First time I’ve done a field trip for a video… been here the past 2 days researching and gathering looooots of footage… not tellin you where I am tho 👻

Currently juggling 3 video projects but you’ll hopefully see this one before the end of the year 💚

September 30, 2025 at 8:38 PM

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Ahmed Sarsour

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“New Year!” Part 2 By Ahmed Sarsour

#Gaza #Palestine #BreakTheSiege #FreedomFlotilla #MarchToGaza
#CeasefireNow #Genocide #FreePalestine

October 2, 2025 at 3:25 PM

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Ahmed Sarsour

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“Three Days!” Part 1

Ahmed Sarsour

#Gaza #Palestine #BreakTheSiege #FreedomFlotilla #MarchToGaza
#CeasefireNow #Genocide #FreePalestine

October 5, 2025 at 11:14 PM

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Ahmed Sarsour

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Both parts of

“Three Days!” By Ahmed Sarsour

#Gaza #Palestine #BreakTheSiege #FreedomFlotilla #MarchToGaza
#CeasefireNow #Genocide #FreePalestine

October 7, 2025 at 5:23 PM

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Ahmed Sarsour

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“Three Days!” By Ahmed Sarour

#Gaza #Palestine #BreakTheSiege #FreedomFlotilla #Madeleine #MarchToGaza #DealBreaker #CeasefireNow #Genocide #FreePalestine

October 10, 2025 at 2:03 PM

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October 11, 2025 at 5:35 PM

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Ahmed Sarsour

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Part 1 of “New Year!" By Ahmed Sarsour.
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#Gaza #Palestine #BreakTheSiege #FreedomFlotilla #MarchToGaza
#CeasefireNow #Genocide #FreePalestine

September 29, 2025 at 10:17 PM

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Ahmed Sarsour

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"Soul of the soul!" By Ahmed Sarsour.
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#Gaza #Palestine #BreakTheSiege #FreedomFlotilla #MarchToGaza
#CeasefireNow #Genocide #FreePalestine

In a moment of time, You were safe and sound.
In a blink of an eye, he said goodbye.
Six feet in the ground, away from his arms. He tries to be strong, but he cries.
You are in his heart, In the corner of his eyes.
Wherever he goes, he sees your smile, Up there in the skies.
Grandpa Khalid, kept mentioning your name, In his prayers, in his dreams, With everyone he
meets.
You would hear him say, from miles away:
"Reem, the soul of my soul,
A piece of my heart they stole. "
They knew she was my soul,
Yet they took her away.
Our souls are bound forever,
That's why I can't stay.
She won't be forgotten,
her story will thrive.
No one can steal the memories,
the way she made me feel alive
As bright, as her memory's light,
A beacon in my heart,
With the tears I hide,
The prayers that guide me to her side.
Reem has been waiting at heaven's door,
His prayers and kind words were reaching her evermore.
She told the angels, "He'll arrive soon,
He misses me so much, as big as the moon!".
And then grandpa Khalid died.
Killed by an air strike, and there he arrived.
Their souls reunited, their voices together intertwined, And they sang:

"Put your little hands in mine,
Come join together at the end of the line,
in a heavenly embrace,
You can see his face.
He finally smiles,
For the God he prays,
Has answered his prayers."
For Reem was in his dreams,
And now his body happily screams:
"Happy birthday for you and me,
The soul of my soul,
The light they never stole,
You were with me all along,
With you I'm whole."

September 27, 2025 at 5:07 PM

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Ahmed Sarsour

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#Gaza #Palestine #BreakTheSiege #FreedomFlotilla #Madeleine #MarchToGaza #DealBreaker #CeasefireNow #Genocide #FreePalestine

Excerpt front the poem “Faces of supremacy” by Ahmed Sarsour. “Tables are turning.
Nations are learning.
Fires within souls burning.
Students from all over the world,
fighting, praising the Lord
for the freedom of speech
they try suppressing.”

September 17, 2025 at 12:14 AM

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Ahmed Sarsour

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#Gaza #Palestine #BreakTheSiege #FreedomFlotilla #Madeleine #MarchToGaza #DealBreaker #CeasefireNow #Genocide #FreePalestine

This poem is inspired by something my friend Batool wrote. When I read her words, I couldn't
help but reflect on the memories I have of our life in Sudan—how we never experienced such
cold weather there. At the same time, I’ve been sick for several days due to the weather here in
Gaza. As I read Batool’s poem, these lines began to form in my mind, almost as a reply to her.
Today marks the 507th day since the war began, and while many people may think the situation
has changed, it has not. Prices remain high, there is still no electricity, and we are living with the
scarcity of cooking gas, which we’re only allowed to purchase in limited quantities each month.
It's not enough to even heat water for food or to keep warm.
So, this poem is the result of the tangled emotions I felt while reading her words. Here are the
lines that came to me.
******
**507th Day**
I woke up this morning
In my grandma’s room,
The room that’s never been finished,
As we had to travel away,
So all of its walls are still grey.
I woke up feeling cold and sick,
We’re not used to this weather anyway,
As we were so, so far away
From the land of our ancestors,
The land we call home today.
I woke up reminiscing today,
On the life we’ve left behind
In my beloved home, in Sudan,
So far from where we are today.
I cried and cried,
Wishing the pain would go away—
The stomachache of my anxieties,
The fever that keeps crawling my way.
It’s the 507th day,
I prayed for mercy to come and stay.
We’re growing tired of hunger, frost,
And despair that continues to play,
Almost every day.

Waiting for the sun’s ray,
To give us warmth's entree,
To disperse the cold away.
We are hopeful today.

-by Ahmed Sarsour

September 6, 2025 at 7:14 PM

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Ahmed Sarsour

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#Gaza #Palestine #BreakTheSiege #FreedomFlotilla #Madeleine #MarchToGaza #DealBreaker #CeasefireNow #Genocide #FreePalestine

In memory of Ahmed Alnajar, the 18 months old baby boy who was killed in an Isailie airstrike
that left his body with no head. Then on camera, there was his dad screaming, holding only his
body without a head!
*****
If you did see it, you can't have it unseen!
Palestinian children's lives don't matter.
The baby had a diaper on but no head! Let that sink in as you watch from behind your screen!
How many times did you watch us getting burned? Watch us scream! Have you heard our
shouts? Have you cared enough to scream?
T o scream No!
to all of those who suppress us, T o those who kept us in between! Stuck on city borders,
waiting, using hashtags, getting on your daily stream!
They tormented us, tortured us,
and as they stated, unalived 35 thousand of us, that fascist regime!
The baby was pulled out of a sea of burning tents, a diaper on, No head, his dad screams!
Did you see the names on your screen? The numbers, The cries, Did it reach your media
stream?
Their motto was not again, but it's a holocaust like nothing we have ever seen! They burnt
everything in their way, even our ability to dream!
So, have you seen the desperate attempts at getting your attention? The GoFundMe
campaigns? The begging, how they crushed our self-esteem?!
Maybe it caught your attention when Lizzo finally made a statement with her celebrity supreme.
No?!
Then definitely when Haley Bailey cried, your precious queen! I saw the comments, That was
extreme!
But, have you looked us up after that? Have you donated? Given us some of that green?
Have you lifted a finger and reposted?
Or maybe you liked keeping your hands clean?
Did you possibly consider reading our stories, trying to comprehend the message in between?
No,
I know exactly what you did!You preferred taking yourself out of the scene!"

September 3, 2025 at 10:13 PM

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whenever people ask me for recs i can't really give Linear star / number ratings that accurately capture "when i like something because i think it's good or when i like something because i think it's kind of dumb" so i just show the 'feeling' column i use for The Spreadsheet e.g.

September 2, 2025 at 12:49 AM

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a screenshot of the linked article. there's a title called "talking about sex" and below it is a screenshot from chapter 6 of 'the con cafe girl wears love', where a trans girl talks to her brother about how her sex marked on the family registry makes it difficult for her to dress the way she wants.

August 22, 2025 at 1:12 PM

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Ahmed Sarsour

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#Gaza #Palestine #BreakTheSiege #FreedomFlotilla #Madeleine #MarchToGaza #DealBreaker #CeasefireNow #Genocide #FreePalestine

From the poem “second winter” by Ahmed Sarsour

They left us without making a sound,
Not even a heartbeat.
We stood speechless, in shock.
And you?
You denied it.
You sent us brochures on how to survive the cold,
Like it would cure us and bring back the departed souls.
"Drink your hot beverages,
Strengthen the walls of your tent with blankets and cupboards,
Lie next to each other,
Keep your bodies warm,
Follow these tips, and you'll survive the storm."
But how could they?
How could we?
On an empty stomach? Like the empty promises of a deal you kept promoting for weeks?
Months?

September 1, 2025 at 8:12 PM

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Ahmed Sarsour

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youtu.be/s-Ez1pvfOdY?...

Part 2: In his poem "No Head!", Sudanese-Palestinian poet Ahmed Sarsour, currently trapped in Gaza, confronts the viewer with the realities of genocide. He ends with a call for action, questioning what onlookers of the ongoing genocide have done to help.

#FreePalestine

No Head (pt.2), "Do Something!" - Ahmed Sarsour [#poetry #fragment]

YouTube video by Ahmed Sarsour 🍉

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August 27, 2025 at 8:43 PM

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Ahmed Sarsour

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youtu.be/DfNqcHlSJ3I?...
Sudanese-Palestinian poet Ahmed Sarsour, currently trapped in Gaza, confronts the viewer with the realities of genocide. His words describe a child being pulled from the rubble, still wearing a diaper, with "No Head".
#AhmedSarsour #Poetry #Gaza