Kelli
@frankincensored.bsky.social
literature, philosophy, Islamic history & culture
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December 7, 2025 at 4:03 AM
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Marcel Proust:
“Every person is destroyed when we stop seeing them; the person’s next appearance is a new creation, different from the one that had immediately preceded it, if not from all previous appearances. (1/2)
“Every person is destroyed when we stop seeing them; the person’s next appearance is a new creation, different from the one that had immediately preceded it, if not from all previous appearances. (1/2)
December 5, 2025 at 4:33 PM
Marcel Proust:
“Every person is destroyed when we stop seeing them; the person’s next appearance is a new creation, different from the one that had immediately preceded it, if not from all previous appearances. (1/2)
“Every person is destroyed when we stop seeing them; the person’s next appearance is a new creation, different from the one that had immediately preceded it, if not from all previous appearances. (1/2)
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Happy to share an extract from my book. It's about visiting the homes of writers you admire and love, and wondering what feelings pull us there
@kdclewin.bsky.social on Virginia Woolf’s room of her own and the role of writing spaces in the creative lives of literary icons.
A Pilgrimage to Monk’s House, Where Virginia Woolf Found a Room of Her Own
I can’t say how long it’s been there, but I have an image in my mind of the place where writers work. I picture the writer; I picture the space; I conjure an atmosphere of quiet calm in which someo…
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September 29, 2025 at 8:00 AM
Happy to share an extract from my book. It's about visiting the homes of writers you admire and love, and wondering what feelings pull us there
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"How Do We Tell the Story of Gaza’s Murdered Journalists?
Steven W. Thrasher on Trying to Make Sense of a Slaughter" my latest in @literaryhub.bsky.social lithub.com/how-do-we-te...
Steven W. Thrasher on Trying to Make Sense of a Slaughter" my latest in @literaryhub.bsky.social lithub.com/how-do-we-te...
How Do We Tell the Story of Gaza’s Murdered Journalists?
Since October 2023, I have been closely following the most outstanding cohort of journalists in the world: the mighty but dwindling community of journalists in Gaza. For about a year, I attended p…
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August 14, 2025 at 5:31 PM
"How Do We Tell the Story of Gaza’s Murdered Journalists?
Steven W. Thrasher on Trying to Make Sense of a Slaughter" my latest in @literaryhub.bsky.social lithub.com/how-do-we-te...
Steven W. Thrasher on Trying to Make Sense of a Slaughter" my latest in @literaryhub.bsky.social lithub.com/how-do-we-te...
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How Do I Leave the Prison of Gaza?
"The world is small," they say. But Gaza taught me that the world is too big to be shaken by the small tragedies that happen here. Too big to care about a starving human being who only dreams of crossing a crossing.
"The world is small," they say. But Gaza taught me that the world is too big to be shaken by the small tragedies that happen here. Too big to care about a starving human being who only dreams of crossing a crossing.
How Do I Leave the Prison of Gaza?
"The world is small," they say. But Gaza taught me that the world is too big to be shaken by the small tragedies that happen here. Too big to care about a starving human being who only dreams of crossing a crossing.
arablit.org
July 29, 2025 at 5:28 AM
How Do I Leave the Prison of Gaza?
"The world is small," they say. But Gaza taught me that the world is too big to be shaken by the small tragedies that happen here. Too big to care about a starving human being who only dreams of crossing a crossing.
"The world is small," they say. But Gaza taught me that the world is too big to be shaken by the small tragedies that happen here. Too big to care about a starving human being who only dreams of crossing a crossing.
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The IPC has issued an alert for the "Worst-case scenario of Famine unfolding in the Gaza Strip." My friend in Gaza, a doctor, writes:"Now, the majority of ppl we attend to are victims of this man made starvation. The level of agony & loss due to starvation has increased dramatically since yesterday"
🚨 #GazaStrip Alert
The worst-case scenario of #Famine is rapidly unfolding in the #GazaStrip amid relentless conflict, displacements, and extremely limited humanitarian access.
📄 Read more: www.ipcinfo.org/fileadmin/us...
@TheIPCinfo #FoodInsecurity #Malnutrition
The worst-case scenario of #Famine is rapidly unfolding in the #GazaStrip amid relentless conflict, displacements, and extremely limited humanitarian access.
📄 Read more: www.ipcinfo.org/fileadmin/us...
@TheIPCinfo #FoodInsecurity #Malnutrition
July 29, 2025 at 12:12 PM
The IPC has issued an alert for the "Worst-case scenario of Famine unfolding in the Gaza Strip." My friend in Gaza, a doctor, writes:"Now, the majority of ppl we attend to are victims of this man made starvation. The level of agony & loss due to starvation has increased dramatically since yesterday"
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I wrote a memorial essay in praise of the great Joanna Macy over there at my newsletter.....
In Honor of Joanna Macy, 1929-2025
I write while staying in one of the great forests of British Columbia, a forest in which the inextricability of life from death is gorgeously evident. Several kinds of fern spring from this soil, some...
www.meditationsinanemergency.com
July 21, 2025 at 9:15 PM
I wrote a memorial essay in praise of the great Joanna Macy over there at my newsletter.....
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SLY & THE FAMILY STONE
EVERYDAY PEOPLE (1969)
RIP Sly Stone 🖤 1943-2025
EVERYDAY PEOPLE (1969)
RIP Sly Stone 🖤 1943-2025
June 9, 2025 at 11:20 PM
SLY & THE FAMILY STONE
EVERYDAY PEOPLE (1969)
RIP Sly Stone 🖤 1943-2025
EVERYDAY PEOPLE (1969)
RIP Sly Stone 🖤 1943-2025
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MRS. DALLOWAY was published 100 years ago today. The following year, E.M. Forster reviewed it in The Yale Review.
Now online for the first time: his essay on Woolf’s novels to date—including what he called her “exquisite and superbly constructed” masterpiece. yalereview.org/article/fors...
Now online for the first time: his essay on Woolf’s novels to date—including what he called her “exquisite and superbly constructed” masterpiece. yalereview.org/article/fors...
E. M. Forster: “The Novels of Virginia Woolf”
E. M. Forster on “Jacob’s Room” and “Mrs. Dalloway”
yalereview.org
May 14, 2025 at 1:08 PM
MRS. DALLOWAY was published 100 years ago today. The following year, E.M. Forster reviewed it in The Yale Review.
Now online for the first time: his essay on Woolf’s novels to date—including what he called her “exquisite and superbly constructed” masterpiece. yalereview.org/article/fors...
Now online for the first time: his essay on Woolf’s novels to date—including what he called her “exquisite and superbly constructed” masterpiece. yalereview.org/article/fors...
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Wonderful profile of a great writer and a courage-inspiring woman ~
Here's my profile on Madeleine Thien, whose first novel in nearly a decade arrives next week.
We spoke about Hannah Arendt, visiting Palestine, the limits of autofiction and much more.
www.thestar.com/entertainmen...
We spoke about Hannah Arendt, visiting Palestine, the limits of autofiction and much more.
www.thestar.com/entertainmen...
Madeleine Thien is the quiet conscience of Canadian literature. Nine years after winning the country’s top book prize, she returns with a stirring new novel
In “The Book of Records,” the outspoken author moves between centuries and perspectives – past and imagined futures – in a prismatic attempt to unearth the very root of thinking.
www.thestar.com
May 3, 2025 at 8:54 PM
Wonderful profile of a great writer and a courage-inspiring woman ~
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"Do not fear anyone because our fight is a fight for love, is a fight democracy, is a fight for humanity. And I am saying it clear and loud. To President Trump and his cabinet: I am not afraid of you ... And if there is no fear, what is it replaced with? Love."
Mohsen Mahdawi
Mohsen Mahdawi
After his release from federal custody today, Mohsen Mahdawi delivered a bold message to Donald Trump and his Cabinet: “Let me make this clear—I am not afraid of you.
April 30, 2025 at 8:42 PM
"Do not fear anyone because our fight is a fight for love, is a fight democracy, is a fight for humanity. And I am saying it clear and loud. To President Trump and his cabinet: I am not afraid of you ... And if there is no fear, what is it replaced with? Love."
Mohsen Mahdawi
Mohsen Mahdawi
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This seminal 1966 album of classical Persian music, featuring great Iranian singers and outstanding tar lute, violin and santur players, is available for Flac and MP3 download on my blog:
music-republic-world-traditional.blogspot.com/2025/04/iran...
#Iran
music-republic-world-traditional.blogspot.com/2025/04/iran...
#Iran
April 30, 2025 at 10:09 AM
This seminal 1966 album of classical Persian music, featuring great Iranian singers and outstanding tar lute, violin and santur players, is available for Flac and MP3 download on my blog:
music-republic-world-traditional.blogspot.com/2025/04/iran...
#Iran
music-republic-world-traditional.blogspot.com/2025/04/iran...
#Iran
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Just finished watching Louis Theroux: The Settlers. It is truly truly horrifying.
www.newstatesman.com/culture/tv/2...
www.newstatesman.com/culture/tv/2...
Louis Theroux: The Settlers is a deathly warning
In this documentary, Theroux allows ultra-nationalist Israeli settlers to speak with perfect openness. It is chilling.
www.newstatesman.com
April 27, 2025 at 7:33 PM
Just finished watching Louis Theroux: The Settlers. It is truly truly horrifying.
www.newstatesman.com/culture/tv/2...
www.newstatesman.com/culture/tv/2...
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“In reality every reader is, while he is reading, the reader of his own self. … And the recognition by the reader in his own self of what the book says is the proof of its veracity…”
— Proust, Time Regained (tr. Scott Moncrieff et al.)
— Proust, Time Regained (tr. Scott Moncrieff et al.)
April 19, 2025 at 5:11 PM
“In reality every reader is, while he is reading, the reader of his own self. … And the recognition by the reader in his own self of what the book says is the proof of its veracity…”
— Proust, Time Regained (tr. Scott Moncrieff et al.)
— Proust, Time Regained (tr. Scott Moncrieff et al.)
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“A moment later, we were all laughing—a collective laughter, as if we had tripped during a picnic. But this laughter doesn’t belong to picnics. It is a distorted sound, like the music of a damaged cassette tape”
Laughter Without Joy: Between Gaza’s Reality and Beckett’s Stage
Laughter Without Joy: Between Gaza’s Reality and Beckett’s Stage
In this essay by Husam Maarouf, he writes: "Isn’t it strange for someone to laugh in Gaza? Here, laughter is not because destruction is amusing or enjoyable—it is a moment of nakedness before the self, a full exposure. One has no choice but to laugh."
arablit.org
April 21, 2025 at 10:27 AM
“A moment later, we were all laughing—a collective laughter, as if we had tripped during a picnic. But this laughter doesn’t belong to picnics. It is a distorted sound, like the music of a damaged cassette tape”
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April 20, 2025 at 9:03 AM
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A Resonant Death: Poems & Reflections by Fatima Hassouna
Batool Abu Akleen writes: "Heartsick, I am sharing with you my translations of some of her prose and poetry, as it was her wish to have a RESONANT death."
Batool Abu Akleen writes: "Heartsick, I am sharing with you my translations of some of her prose and poetry, as it was her wish to have a RESONANT death."
A Resonant Death: Poems & Reflections by Fatima Hassouna
Batool Abu Akleen writes: "Heartsick, I am sharing with you my translations of some of her prose and poetry, as it was her wish to have a RESONANT death."
arablit.org
April 20, 2025 at 8:00 AM
A Resonant Death: Poems & Reflections by Fatima Hassouna
Batool Abu Akleen writes: "Heartsick, I am sharing with you my translations of some of her prose and poetry, as it was her wish to have a RESONANT death."
Batool Abu Akleen writes: "Heartsick, I am sharing with you my translations of some of her prose and poetry, as it was her wish to have a RESONANT death."
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"Fatima is part of a generation in Gaza bidding itself farewell...among us are poets and artists and photographers and singers. We have the energy to build an abundance of beauty for a world that only needed to look to see us" - poet Haidar al-Ghazali's elegy for Fatima Hassouna
"On Wednesday, just days before her wedding, 25-year-old Hassouna was killed in an Israeli airstrike that hit her home in northern Gaza. Ten members of her family, including her pregnant sister, were also killed." www.theguardian.com/world/2025/a...
‘If I die, I want a loud death’: Gaza photojournalist killed by Israeli airstrike
Fatima Hassouna, who had been documenting war in Gaza for 18 months and was subject of new documentary, killed along with 10 members of her family
www.theguardian.com
April 18, 2025 at 9:44 PM
"Fatima is part of a generation in Gaza bidding itself farewell...among us are poets and artists and photographers and singers. We have the energy to build an abundance of beauty for a world that only needed to look to see us" - poet Haidar al-Ghazali's elegy for Fatima Hassouna
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🚨UPDATE: Rümeysa Öztürk has now suffered three separate asthma attacks while in DHS custody.
She has not received her required asthma medications—a violation of her fundamental right to medical care.
This is cruelty, it is neglect, and it is a damning moral and legal failure.
She has not received her required asthma medications—a violation of her fundamental right to medical care.
This is cruelty, it is neglect, and it is a damning moral and legal failure.
April 3, 2025 at 11:34 PM
🚨UPDATE: Rümeysa Öztürk has now suffered three separate asthma attacks while in DHS custody.
She has not received her required asthma medications—a violation of her fundamental right to medical care.
This is cruelty, it is neglect, and it is a damning moral and legal failure.
She has not received her required asthma medications—a violation of her fundamental right to medical care.
This is cruelty, it is neglect, and it is a damning moral and legal failure.
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The Ottomans built bird houses into the architecture of mosques, inns and bridges around Turkey.
The addition of birdhouses was linked to religious beliefs and cultural values. It was believed that providing shelter for birds was a good deed and a way to show compassion for all living creatures.
The addition of birdhouses was linked to religious beliefs and cultural values. It was believed that providing shelter for birds was a good deed and a way to show compassion for all living creatures.
January 18, 2025 at 1:11 PM
The Ottomans built bird houses into the architecture of mosques, inns and bridges around Turkey.
The addition of birdhouses was linked to religious beliefs and cultural values. It was believed that providing shelter for birds was a good deed and a way to show compassion for all living creatures.
The addition of birdhouses was linked to religious beliefs and cultural values. It was believed that providing shelter for birds was a good deed and a way to show compassion for all living creatures.