Meet Abdelrahman ElGendy, a 2024 COURAGE to WRITE grantee working on his memoir, "We Write on Walls" Abdelrahman ElGendy He is an Egyptian writer, activist, and translator. His writing engages with counter-narratives and historical erasure. To learn more, go to degrootfoundation.org/2024-courage-t…

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Macklemore has released his statement! Thank you Macklemore

عندي جناحات بس مفيش هوا.

Y’all really think “I’m the first Black and Asian woman leader to aid and abet a genocide” eats and that’s so sad for your worldview, your soul, and your potential. An arms embargo would be not only actually revolutionary (for a president) but it’s also the human thing to do.

A few months ago, The Nation published an unforgettable piece by Lujayn, a 14-year-old girl in Gaza. Today, Lujayn has another extraordinary dispatch—this time about a bloody night she endured with her mother. Please, please read it. thenation.com/article/world/…

NYU updated their anti-discrimination policy to make “Zionist” a protected trait, so using it negatively can subject students to disciplinary action. They wrote in the same document that protesting off-campus does not “immunize” students from disciplinary action

"As an Arab scholar of Arabic literature in the US, I have very few choices. I can either be a tool of the very system that objectifies me, exoticizes me and is not willing to bat an eye when my entire culture is being exterminated, or else I am a threat." lithub.com/intifada-on-be…

لم يهتم هذا العالم يومًا بالإفساح لنا لنشاركه الطاولة كمساوين. حتى في أكثر الدوائر تقدمية، نظل نحن العرب مصدر إزعاج يُتسَامح معه فقط حالَ بقائنا عربًا نموذجيين: محنيي الرؤوس، شاكري الأنعم، سهلي البلع والهضم، نقدم الإدانات المطلوبة قبل أن نطالب بإنسانيتنا. داعمونا قلةٌ، وحلفاؤنا

Read the brilliant Huda Fakhreddine هدى فخر الدين ❤️

U.S. policy in Gaza is not a “failure.” It is a terrible success. Washington’s real policy has always been to support Israel in the destruction of Gaza, to render it unlivable, and to lay the ground for its ethnic cleansing. The ceasefire negotiation charade, the fake pier, the

Let’s be very clear about something. The hundreds of thousands marching in Tel Aviv right now, demanding a ceasefire deal & the resignation of Netanyahu are not doing so in protest of the genocide. They are doing so in protest of how the genocide has been carried out: no

Japanese director Neo Sora appears at 2024 Venice International Film Festival, wearing the keffiyeh and a Palestinian flag patch. Credit: 朝日新聞映画班

VIDEO: Columbia University Alma Mater statue dripping in red paint on the first day of fall classes as students protest against the university’s continue support for genocide. Provided anon.

Seeing videos of cops BEATING students at UMich and Columbia their first week of school and I will tell you one thing that ain’t gonna happen: faculty and students aren’t going to sit around and be beaten up by campus cops for the 2024-2025 school year. That ain’t gonna happen.

The gods have spoken, the gods said nothing New poems The Baffler thebaffler.com/poems/bracket-…

Are you a US college/university student? Did your university institute new protest/demonstration policies after last spring’s encampments? Do you want to talk about how that’s impacting you as you begin the new school year? DM me! (For a Mother Jones article)

It’s been said before but the second Greta started making connections between climate change and capitalism, colonialism, and imperialism the media coverage came to a screeching halt.

أحمد رحمي على الأسفلت الحمدلله ❤❤❤

Excited to announce that I’ve been accepted as a fellow at the Virginia Center for Creative Arts (Virginia Center for the Creative Arts) for their writer residency. I’ll be in residence for the last three weeks of February 2025. Can’t wait to share space and words with fellow writers and the community. 🤍