Reposting this tweet from Abdalhadi Alijla عبد الهادي العجلة (@alijla2021):
“Via Scott Long. For those interested, I’ve uploaded my entire library of books on Palestine/Israel to the cloud, in digital form (mostly pdf and epub) so you can access them. It’s a little over 1700 books, a lot of them good and important, some of them historical or political curiosities. Nearly all are in English, I’m afraid. You can download any that interest you individually, or the whole library (about 13 GB). And feel free to share this.”
“My husband, photographer Michael Nye, once photographed in a West Bank Palestinian refugee camp for days, and was followed around by a little girl who wanted him to photograph her. Finally, he did — and she held up a stone with a poem etched into it. (This picture appears on the cover of my collection of poems, 19 Varieties of Gazelle — Poems of the Middle East). Through a translator, Michael understood that the poem was ‘her poem’ — that’s what she called it. We urged my dad to translate the verse, which sounded vaguely familiar, but without checking roundly enough, we quoted the translation on the book flap and said she had written the verse. Quickly, angry scholars wrote to me pointing out that the verse was from a famous Darwish poem. I felt terrible.
I was meeting him for the first and last time the next week. Handing over the copy of the book sheepishly, I said: ‘Please forgive our mistake. If this book ever gets reprinted, I promise we will give the proper credit for the verse.’ He stared closely at the picture. Tears ran down his cheeks. ‘Don’t correct it,’ he said. ‘It is the goal of my life to write poems that are claimed by children.’”
— Naomi Shihab Nye, from her essay “Remembering Mahmoud Darwish”
this is the poem
Wait…can someone post the mentioned picture?
this is the biggest version i could find that wasn’t an obvious photo of somebody’s copy of the book. still not great quality, but better than nothing
I have no stake in this i dont really follow taylor swift but based on the reaches gaylors have made before im surprised i havent seen anyone spin this as taylor coming out as ace.
israel is built on top of the mass graves of palestinians, of entire towns burned to the ground, their inhabitants systematically slaughtered. the occupying settlers regularly arm themselves and rampage through palestinian neighborhoods. they march in the street chanting death to all arabs. israeli snipers shoot children and elders in the head and laugh about it afterwards. they assassinate journalists and doctors, bomb hospitals and apartment buildings. they openly call for a war of extermination and refer to palestinians as animals. israelis who oppose apartheid are jailed and anti zionist jewish people in the diaspora are labeled as self hating jews. peaceful protesting like BDS is criminalized in europe and the us.
but there are those who will look at these atrocities and say their heart weeps for both sides. they cry over genocidal fascists and pretend that makes them enlightened. they accuse those who unilaterally oppose apartheid and ethnic cleansing of extremism. their cowardice and complicity is heinous. never trust someone who will weep for the murderer while the victim is still bleeding out.
Chapters:
1/1
Fandom:
One Piece (Anime & Manga)
Rating:
Teen And Up Audiences
Warnings:
No Archive Warnings Apply
Relationships:
Roronoa Zoro/Vinsmoke Sanji
Characters:
Roronoa Zoro, Vinsmoke Sanji, Aka Ashi no Zeff | Red-Leg Zeff
Additional Tags:
Character Turned Into Vampire, Human/Vampire Relationship, Post-Time Skip, Alternate Universe - Canon Divergence, Fluff and Hurt/Comfort, Developing Relationship
Summary:
“You’re not him,” said Zoro. “But aren’t I?” Zoro licked his lips. “I’m not going to back down. Have you ever known me to back down from a fight?” Again, Sanji laughed. “Whoever said anything about fighting?”
It is likely, reproductive-rights advocates say, that these women would be alive if not for Poland’s increasingly restrictive abortion laws. Abortion has been illegal in the country since 1993, but a 2020 ruling by Poland’s Constitutional Tribunal, which went into effect the next year, removed one of the exceptions to the law—fetal abnormalities—and imposed a near-total ban on abortion. Now women can terminate a pregnancy only if the women’s life or health is at risk (including mental health risks with a psychiatric diagnosis) or if there is reasonable suspicion that the pregnancy resulted from rape or incest.
Yet as examples from across the country indicate, what the law allows is not actually what is happening in practice. The consequences of the reproductive-rights rollback have been dire. Women who have abortions are not prosecuted under the law, but doctors and others who help women terminate pregnancies, up to the point of viability, may face up to three years in prison. If an abortion takes place beyond the point of viability, then the person who aided in the abortion may face up to eight years in prison. This creates what many consider a “chilling effect,” as doctors scared of running afoul of the law hesitate to take lifesaving steps for pregnant patients. “Patients are powerless and doctors are increasingly fearful,” says Professor Marzena Debska, a gynecologist at Debski Clinic in Warsaw.
1. What fic of yours would you recommend to someone who had never read any of your work? (In other words, what do you think is the best introduction to your fics?)
Hmm probably The Woes of Dracule Mihawk? It’s not my most popular but it is seemingly quite loved and it’s short and sweet.
2. Go to your AO3 “Works” page, to the sidebar with all the filters, and click the drop-down arrow for “Additional Tags.” What are your top 3-5 most used tags? Do you think they accurately represent your writing habits?
Not counting the event tag: Fluff, Angst, Drabble, Hurt/Comfort, and Family. Yeah I’d say that’s about right lol.
4. What detail in [insert fic] are you really proud of?
You didnt specify a fic, and oh man there’s a few that I put in Caught In the Web, so I’ll do that. My favorites are probably Ace noticing that Benn never lights the cigarettes he puts in his mouth but still always smells like smoke but doesn’t realize it’s because he never smokes around the kids. I also put way to much effort into switching between “Rosi” - “Rosinante” and “Doffy” - “Doflamingo” in Rosi’s pov—I based which I used when on how he felt about himself or his brother during a particular statement lol. So like, if Doffy was being cruel or Rosi did something he was ashamed about, I used their full names
okay i’m curious bc my parents were relatively young having me but idk what age difference is “normal” between parents and kids as i’ve met people with plenty of variations. so if you want, reblog this and tag (don’t comment) how old your parents were when they had you. my mom was 25 and my dad was 21.
