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Son of Sicily

I am a Son. Of Hajar and Isaac. A Son. Of Theodora and Archimedes. A Son. Of the Phoenician Sailor and the Spanish Colonialist. Of the enslaved Ethiopian and the North Italian Mercenary. But now the branding iron only burns me with “European” Put me in a cage with axe-grinding, hut-dwelling, blond-haired invaders Of my land of science and architecture. Make me hate my cousins across the Sea. Yes! We are people of the land. Yes! We enjoy our ornamented festivals and our families. Yes! We are a people of warm spices and warm gestures and warm voices. They say we don’t work hard. Lazy, Leaches to the system. My grandfather’s callused hands disagree. And wherever we migrate, we break our backs. We are a nation of workaholics. But you cannot be a workaholic without work. Work needs infrastructure, Needs investment, needs policy, Needs Care and Focus. Please tell me how Europe has made it better here. We wind down into circles of corruption. It’s all our fault. But there’s so much more. The axe-grinding invader put on a suit and lowered their voice But the heart is still cold like the tundra they retreat from in the winter. They make the game. Policy. But at the end of it all, I give thanks to God And to the warm spices And to the hot ground For raising me. And I strive, Because striving is all I can do. I must remember that I am a Son.

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Sicilian women in traditional clothes.

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#Antudo #Anticolonialism #Ciciri #SicilianVespers #VespriSiciliani #Sicilia #Sicily #Sicilianhistory

Buon Giorno dei Vespri Siciliani! Happy Sicilian Vespers Day! For more info see http://www.bestofsicily.com/mag/art261.htm

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Andrea Camilleri, famous Sicilian writer, and number 1 book seller in Italy of the “Commissario Montalbano” series stated: "the SOUTH of ITALY is “nothing more than a COLONY destined to succumb more and more, because it gradually less and may not be helpful to the management policy which is still the same from 1860"..... “The explanation goes back to 1860 when a peasant revolution was called “brigandage”. They killed 170,000 of the so called “brigands” that do not exist anywhere in the world. And they were rather rebellious peasants, or former Bourbon soldiers"

This guy is the man! ‪

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1st page of the terroni book and already so good! #makingbridges #solidarity

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Muqarnas on the ceiling of the Cappella Palatina of Palermo, Sicily with kufic arabic calligraphy.

Muqarnas sul soffitto della Cappella Palatina di Palermo con scrittura araba in stile Kufica. 

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Surah al-fatiha from the qur'an on a column in the Cathedral of Palermo, which during the Arab-Islamic period was a mosque.

Surah Al-Fatiha su una colonna del Cattedrale di Palermo, che durante il periodo Arabo-Islamico era una moschea.

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Follow & check out this new blog.  Qur'an, hadith, and everything Islam-related IN ITALIAN!

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"In the name of God, the Most Gracious, the Most Merciful"

Calligrafia arabo di “Bismillah ar-Rahman ar-Rahim" = "In nome di Dio, Clemente, Misericordioso”

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Traditional clothes:

Top 2 women, Sardinian

First 3 men, Sicilian. Last one, Neapolitan

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003 Sciacca, Sicily (by tango-)

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"Papa, necesitamos a alguien para hablar de justicia. Belén luce como el gueto de Varsovia. Palestina Libre.” Muro de la vergüenza.