#Randa Abdel-Fattah

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Palestinians need ‘real solidarity’, not empty words in private

Sociologist Randa Abdel Fattah says there are many journalists sharing their grievances with media coverage of Gaza privately, but are too scared to do so in public. She says that’s no longer acceptable.

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🌙 Ramadan Mubarak - Books ft. Muslims

🦇 Good morning, my beautiful bookish bats. To celebrate this Islamic holy month, here are a FEW books featuring Muslim characters. I hope you consider adding a few to your TBR.

❓What was the last book you read that taught you something new OR what's at the top of your TBR?

🌙 A Woman is No Man - Etaf Rum 🌙 Amal Unbound - Aisha Saeed 🌙 Love From A to Z - S.K. Ali 🌙 Hana Khan Carries On - Uzma Jalaluddin 🌙 Yes No Maybe So - Becky Albertalli and Aisha Saeed 🌙 Evil Eye - Etaf Rum 🌙 I Am Malala - Malala Yousafzai 🌙 Exit West - Mohsin Hamid 🌙 Written in the Stars - Aisha Saeed 🌙 The Night Diary - Veera Hiranandani 🌙 Much Ado About Nada - Uzma Jalaluddin 🌙 The Eid Gift - S.K. Ali 🌙 More Than Just a Pretty Face - Syed M. Masood 🌙 Yusuf Azeem Is Not a Hero - Saadia Faruqi 🌙 If You Could Be Mine by Sara Farizan 🌙 Snow - Orhan Pamuk 🌙 Sofia Khan Is Not Obliged - Ayisha Malik 🌙 The Proudest Blue by Ibtihaj Muhammad 🌙 And I Darken - Kiersten White 🌙 The Last White Man - Mohsin Hamid

🌙 Hijab Butch Blues - Lamya H 🌙 The Bad Muslim Discount - Syed M. Masood 🌙 Ms. Marvel - G. Willow Wilson 🌙 Love from Mecca to Medina - S.K. Ali 🌙 The City of Brass - S.A. Chakraborty 🌙 The Love Match by Priyanka Taslim 🌙 A Map of Home by Randa Jarrar 🌙 A Very Large Expanse of Sea by Tahereh Mafi 🌙 An Emotion of Great Delight by Tahereh Mafi 🌙 The Love and Lies of Rukhsana Ali by Sabina Khan 🌙 The Moor’s Account - Laila Lalami 🌙 Only This Beautiful Moment by Abdi Nazemian 🌙 Salt Houses by Hala Alyan 🌙 When a Brown Girl Flees by Aamna Quershi 🌙 Jasmine Falling by Shereen Malherbe 🌙 Between Two Moons by Aisha Abdel Gawad 🌙 Sea Prayer by Khaled Hosseini 🌙 A Thousand Splendid Suns by Khaled Hosseini 🌙 The Kite Runner by Khaled Hosseini 🌙 Unmarriageable by Soniah Kamal

🌙 Home Fire by Kamila Shamsie 🌙 All My Rage by Sabaa Tahir 🌙 The Bohemians by Jasmin Darznik 🌙 Ayesha at Last by Uzma Jalaluddin 🌙 A Case of Exploding Mangoes by Mohammed Hanif 🌙 Chronicle of a Last Summer by Yasmine El Rashidi 🌙 A Girl Like That by Tanaz Bhathena 🌙 Other Words for Home by Jasmine Warga 🌙 The Mismatch by Sara Jafari 🌙 Does My Head Look Big In This? by Randa Abdel-Fattah 🌙 You Truly Assumed by Laila Sabreen 🌙 Saints and Misfits by S.K. Ali 🌙 Once Upon an Eid - S.K. Ali and Aisha Saeed 🌙 Tell Me Again How a Crush Should Feel by Sara Farizan 🌙 Alif the Unseen by G. Willow Wilson 🌙 The Henna Wars by Adiba Jaigirdar 🌙 A Show for Two by Tashie Bhuiyan 🌙 Nayra and the Djinn by Michael Berry 🌙 All-American Muslim Girl by Lucinda Dyer 🌙 It All Comes Back to You by Farah Naz Rishi

🌙 The Marvelous Mirza Girls by Sheba Karim 🌙 Salaam, with Love by Sara Sharaf Beg 🌙 Queen of the Tiles by Hanna Alkaf 🌙 How It All Blew Up by Arvin Ahmadi 🌙 Zara Hossain Is Here by Sabina Khan 🌙 Punching the Air by Ibi Zoboi & Yusef Salaam 🌙 She Wore Red Trainers by Na'ima B. Robert 🌙 Hollow Fires by Lucinda Dyer 🌙 Internment by Samira Ahmed 🌙 Against the Loveless World by Susan Abulhawa 🌙 Love in a Headscarf - Shelina Zahra Janmohamed 🌙 Courting Samira by Amal Awad 🌙 The Other Half of Happiness by Ayisha Malik 🌙 Huda F Are You? by Huda Fahmy 🌙 Love, Hate & Other Filters by Samira Ahmed 🌙 Mad, Bad & Dangerous to Know by Samira Ahmed 🌙 Muslim Girls Rise - Saira Mir and Aaliya Jaleel 🌙 Amira & Hamza - Samira Ahmed 🌙 The Weight of Our Sky by Hanna Alkaf 🌙 Nura and the Immortal Palace by M.T. Khan

🌙 As Long as the Lemon Trees Grow by Zoulfa Katouh 🌙 Counting Down with You by Tashie Bhuiyan 🌙 Zachary Ying and the Dragon Emperor by Xiran Jay Zhao 🌙 The Yard - Aliyyah Eniath 🌙 When We Were Sisters by Fatimah Asghar 🌙 The Adventures of Amina al-Sirafi by Shannon Chakraborty 🌙 Maya's Laws of Love by Alina Khawaja 🌙 The Chai Factor by Farah Heron 🌙 The Beauty of Your Face - Sahar Mustafah 🌙 Hope Ablaze by Sarah Mughal Rana

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Lol this zionist karen got her answer

[eretzyisrael]

by Luke Tress

Jewish groups have slammed the University of Pennsylvania for hosting a festival featuring speakers who have been harshly critical of Israel, drawing accusations of antisemitism, during the Jewish High Holiday period.

The Palestine Writes Literature Festival will take place on the university campus, starting on September 22 and ending two days later on the eve of Yom Kippur. The event is being sponsored and hosted by UPenn’s Wolf Humanities Center.

The festival says it is “dedicated to celebrating and promoting cultural productions of Palestinian writers and artists.”

One of its most prominent speakers is Pink Floyd co-founder Roger Waters, a well-known pro-Palestinian activist who has been repeatedly accused of antisemitism.

Commentator Marc Lamont Hill, another participant, was fired by CNN in 2018 for using the term “from the river to the sea,” a call used by the Hamas terror group to advocate for Israel’s destruction.

Also appearing is Rutgers professor Noura Erakat, who opposes Israel’s existence and has compared Zionism to Nazism; author Randa Abdel-Fattah, who called Israel a “demonic, sick project” and supports its destruction; writer Wisam Rafeedie, who earlier this year praised the 1972 Lod airport massacre, which killed 26 people; and Susan Abulhawa, who has called Israel a “Nazi state” that will “someday be demolished.”

Its sponsors include the New York group Al-Awda, which calls for Israel’s destruction, has expressed support for terrorists, calls the Jewish state a “genocidal settler-colonial” entity and urges the expulsion of “Zionists” from New York colleges.

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May TBR!!! 📚 📖🌸

Full titles under the cut!

The Dyke and the Dybbuk by Ellen Galford

Six Crimson Cranes by Elizabeth Lim

The Siren Queen by Nghi Vo

Ma and Me by Putsata Reang

No. 6 vol 1 by Atsuko Asano and Hinoki Kino

Where the Streets Had a Name by Randa Abdel-Fattah

Banned Book Club by Kim Hyun Sook and Ryan Estrada

The Rabbi's Cat by Joann Sfar

Black Water Sister by Zen Cho

Sorcerer to the Crown by Zen Cho

The Biggest Prison on Earth: A History of the Occupied Territories by Illan Pappé

Making Love With the Land by Joshua Whitehead

Home Field Advantage by Dahlia Adler

Salt Houses by Hala Alyan

We Are Not Free by Traci Chee

The Golem and the Jinni by Helene Wecker

Girls of Paper and Fire by Natasha Ngan

The Poppy War by RF Kuang

The Guardian Test by Christina Soontornvat

Justice League International vol 3 by Keith Giffen et al

Green Lantern/Green Arrow vol 1 by Danny O'Neil et al

Teen Titans vol 2: Family Lost by Geoff Johns et al

Red Robin vol 3: The Hit List Fabian Nicieza et al

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Mondoweiss's Culture Editor Mohammed El-Kurd spoke to Dr. Randa Abdel Fattah about her recent opinion article, "On Zionist Feelings."

"The feelings and fragility of Zionists are used as a rhetorical shield to deflect from the reality of Palestinian genocide. I refuse to provide reassurances to placate and soothe Zionist political anxieties." – Dr. Randa Abdel Fattah

Dr. Randa Abdel Fattah is a Future Fellow in the Department of Sociology at Macquarie University, Sydney, Australia. Her research areas cover Palestine, Islamophobia, race, the war on terror, and social movement activism. She is also one of Australia’s most prominent Palestine advocates, a former litigation lawyer, and the multi-award-winning author of 12 books published in over 20 countries and translated into over 15 languages.

Tune in tomorrow, Tuesday, January 23, at 11 a.m. Eastern Time to watch this powerful conversation.

[youllalwaysfindyourwaybackhome]

Books I read in 2023

Books I finished in 2023 (started in 2022)

The Fellowship of the Ring - J.R.R. Tolkien

Books I read in 2023

Exit Strategy - Martha Wells

Compulsory (short story) - Martha Wells

Home: Habitat, Range, Niche, Territory (short story) - Martha Wells

Network Effect - Martha Wells

Silas Marner - George Eliot

Fugitive Telemetry - Martha Wells

This Is Not A Drill: An Extinction Rebellion Handbook

Lambs of God - Marele Day

Home Song - LaVyrle Spencer

Make Way For Dragons! - Thorarinn Gunnarsson

Beneath My Mother's Feet - Amjed Qamar

For Better, For Worse, and For Lunch - Christina Hindhaugh

The Nation's Favourite Poems (Anthology)

Lorna Doone - R.D. Blackmore

The Star Mill - Emil Petaja

The White Girl - Tony Birch

The Assassin in the Greenwood - Paul Doherty

While the Billy Boils (short story collection) - Henry Lawson

Desert Flower - Waris Dirie

By The Tungabhadra - Saradindu Bandopadhyay

The Kite Runner - Khaled Hosseini

Saga of Lost Earths - Emil Petaja

The Other Side of the Frontier: Aboriginal Resistance to the European Invasion of Australia - Henry Reynolds

Screw Loose: Uncalled-For Memoirs - Peter Blazey

They Walked Like Men - Clifford D. Simak

The Two Towers - J.R.R. Tolkien

The Return of the King - J.R.R. Tolkien

The Book of Lost Tales (part 2) - J.R.R. Tolkien

I Capture the Castle - Dodie Smith

The Wolves of Willoughby Chase - Joan Aiken

The Subjection of Women - John Stuart Mill

Northern Lights - Philip Pullman

The Subtle Knife - Philip Pullman

The Amber Spyglass - Philip Pullman

The Flat Share - Beth O'Leary

The Time Traveller's Guide to Medieval England - Ian Mortimer

Wee Free Men - Terry Pratchett

Pride and Prejudice - Jane Austen

The Gates - John Connolly

Ten Things I Hate About Me - Randa Abdel-Fattah

Interview With The Vampire - Anne Rice

Privatized Planet - T.J. Coles

The Stories of English - David Crystal

Girl, 15, Charming but Insane - Sue Limb

Books I started in 2023 (still reading)

The Norton Anthology of Poetry (fifth edition)

A Room of One's Own - Virginia Woolf

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الوحشة | نيكتاريوس لامبروبولوس

"يقولون: الوحشة هي أن تشعر بجدران البيت تضيق كلّ غرفة تشبه أخرى هي أن تجوب الشوارع فارغًا.

“I can’t describe you even if you write the words in my own, this skin is limited in capacity. Because I can't look at you without burning, hurting you more than poems and bigger than language. You’re too many things I don’t know

How do I write it.” | Randa Abdel Fattah " from EGYPT

لاتخبرني أنني أفهم ألمك لا أريد أن أفهمك ، أريد أن تتوسع المسافة بيننا. لا تلمس ألمي، لا تلمسني ولا تلمسه. لا تحاول قطاع الطرق أو مواساته. أتركها تغلي، أتركها بلا لمس، أتركها نقية، ملوثة. ما يكفي من هذا الجرح هو السكين الذي أردت فتحه، يد كافية امتدت وخلقته "هدنة مع التاريخ

23 أغسطس 2022 صباحا. 11:51 م.

"لا تقل أشياءً رقيقةً كهذه أحاول أنا جاهدًا ألا أقع بحبك المؤلم". | برويز شابور

‏أحرّركِ مني، من شروري، من مزاجي السّيء، من مساءات الأحد التي أضيق بها ذرعًا، من كُرهي لأعياد ميلادي،ومن أنّني لا أعرف كيف أهديكِ شيئًا لايضيع منكِ.أحرّركِ من خيبة أملي، ومن أخباري، ��من التناقض الذي أمث��ّله". | ماريو بينيديتي

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grrrr randa abdel-fattah’s book coming of age in the war in terror has me champing at the bit. its literally so good go read it if you have the means

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✨ National Arab American Heritage Month (NAAHM) is celebrated in April. The first Arab American Heritage Day was celebrated on October 25, 1992. NAAHM celebrates the heritage and culture of Arab Americans and Arabic-speaking Americans. It also recognizes the contributions of Arab Americans to the United States, including:

🌙 The history of Arab migration to America 🌙 The diversity within the Arab American community 🌙 Important customs and traditions 🌙 The fight for civil rights and social justice

✨ NAAHM also serves as a time to: 🌙 Combat Anti-Arab bigotry 🌙 Challenge stereotypes and prejudices

✨ In 2023, the president declared April National Arab American Heritage Month. However, I felt it necessary to recognize Arab American Heritage Day this year, too. I'm Palestinian 🇵🇸, but growing up, I never saw that word printed on a page, never saw it recognized as a nationality in novels or newspapers. We're here. We exist. We will not be erased, ignored, or silenced.

✨ In celebration of these voices, here are a few books by Arab and 🇵🇸Palestinian authors to consider adding to your TBR.

🌙 A Woman is No Man by Etaf Rum 🌙 Against the Loveless World by Susan Abulhawa 🌙 The Woman From Tantoura by Radwa Ashour 🌙 You Exist Too Much by Zaina Arafat 🌙 Crescent by Diana Abu Jaber 🌙 Salt Houses by Hala Alyan 🌙 Minor Detail by Adania Shibli 🌙 As Long as the Lemon Trees Grow by Zoulfa Katouh 🌙 Woman at Point Zero by Nawal El Saadawi 🌙 Silence is a Sense by Layla AlAmmar 🌙 The Beauty of Your Face by Sahar Mustafah 🌙 Exhausted on the Cross by Najwan Darwish 🌙 Palestine Is Throwing a Party and the Whole World Is Invited by Kareem Rabie 🌙 My First and Only Love by Sahar Khalifeh 🌙 Rifqa by Mohammed El-Kurd 🌙 Among the Almond Trees by Hussein Barghouthi 🌙 Palestine: A Socialist Introduction (edited) by Sumaya Awad and Brian Bean 🌙 The Book of Ramallah (edited) by Maya Abu Al-Hayat 🌙 Stories Under Occupation: And Other Plays from Palestine (edited) by Samer al-Saber and Gary M. English 🌙 Ever Since I Did Not Die by Ramy al-Asheq 🌙 Power Born of Dreams: My Story is Palestine by Mohammad Sabaaneh 🌙 Post-Millennial Palestine: Literature, Memory, Resistance (edited) by Ahmad Qabaha and Rachel Gregory Fox 🌙 The Dance of the Deep-Blue Scorpion by Akram Musallam 🌙 Wondrous Journeys in Strange Lands by Sonia Nimr 🌙 The Gaza Kitchen: A Palestinian Culinary Journey by Laila El-Haddad and Maggie Schmitt 🌙 Evil Eye by Etaf Rum 🌙 A Child in Palestine by Naji al-Ali 🌙 Murals by Mahmoud Darwish 🌙 Farah Rocks by Susan Muaddi Darraj 🌙 Halal Hot Dogs by Suzannah Aziz, illustrated by Parwinder Singh 🌙 Baba, What Does My Name Mean? A Journey to Palestine by Rifk Ebeid, illustrated by Lamaa Jawhari 🌙 The Olive Tree Said to Me by N. Salem 🌙 Does My Head Look Big In This? by Randa Abdel-Fattah 🌙 Don't Read The Comments by Eric Smith 🌙 Jasmine Falling by Shereen Malherbe 🌙 Mornings in Jenin by Susan Abulhawa 🌙 The Lady of Tel Aviv by Raba’i al-Madhoun 🌙 Looking for Palestine: Growing Up Confused in an Arab-American Family by Najla Said

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Palestinian men painted as ‘deviant, criminal and hypersexualised’ by media

Sociologist Randa Abdel Fattah says media narratives paint Palestinian and Arab men as ‘deviant, criminal and hypersexualised’ which denies them being seen as victims.

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Randa Abdel Fattah and Mohammed El-Kurd: "It is my duty to make [Zionist...

https://youtu.be/LuA59Tu6yZk?si=G4vZtjQa8Ga2SG1P

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May Wrap Up!

My favorite of the month was The Poppy War by RF Kuang! Full titles and star ratings for all the books I read under the cut!

No. 6 Vol 1 by Atsuko Asano and Hinoki Kino- 4⭐️

The Poppy War by RF Kuang- 5⭐️

The Guardian Test by Christina Soontornvat- 5⭐️

Banned Book Club by Kim Hyun Sook and Ryan Estrada- 5⭐️

Where the Streets Had a Name by Randa Abdel-Fattah- 4⭐️

Six Crimson Cranes by Elizabeth Lim- 5⭐️

Dragonfruit by Makiia Lucier- 4⭐️

Home Field Advantage by Dahlia Adler- 3⭐️

A Masc for Purim by Roz Alexander- 4⭐️

The Rabbi's Cat by Joann Sfar- 4⭐️

Girls of Paper and Fire by Natasha Ngan- 3.5⭐️

Superman Smashes the Klan by Gene Luen Yang and Gurihiru- 4.5⭐️

Making Love With the Land by Joshua Whitehead- 4.5⭐️

The Metamorphosis by Franz Kafka- 5⭐️

Persepolis: The Story of a Childhood by Marjane Satrapi- 5⭐️

House of Leaves by Mark Z Danielewski- 4⭐️

We Are Not Free by Traci Chee- 4.5⭐️

The Biggest Prison on Earth: A History of the Occupied Territories by Illan Pappé- 5⭐️

Ma and Me by Putsata Reang- 5⭐️

Justice League International vol 3 by Keith Giffen, Kevin Maguire, and JM DeMatteis- 3⭐️

Salt Houses by Hala Alyan- 4.5⭐️

I also DNFed Siren Queen by Nghi Vo, Chew vol 1: Taster's Choice by John Layman and Rob Guillory, and The Dyke and the Dybbuk by Ellen Galford

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Randa Abdel Fattah: "It is my duty to make [Zionists] uncomfortable."

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Israel, Hamas, & Civilian Casualties - Randa Abdel-Fattah Responds

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On Zionist feelings

The feelings and fragility of Zionists are used as a rhetorical shield to deflect from the reality of Palestinian genocide. I refuse to provide reassurances to placate and soothe Zionist political anxieties.

By Randa Abdel-Fattah December 27, 2023

Edward Said once asked, “Since when does a militarily occupied people have the responsibility for a peace movement?” To this I would add, “Since when do the victims of genocide have the responsibility to defer to and protect the feelings of those who enact, support, and enable their genocide?” [...] Denying a genocide, refusing historical context, vilifying claims to justice and self-determination, representing calls for a free and decolonized Palestine as an existential threat to Israel and all Jews, converts the symbols, language, soundscapes, optics and aspirations of the Palestine movement into triggers and offensive provocations. In her iconic book The Cultural Politics of Emotion, scholar and writer Sara Ahmed argues that emotive impressions attributed to people or things come to be shared because of how emotions circulate, accumulate, endure, and “stick.” Emotions circulate by moving “outside in,” meanings impressing onto objects. It is critical to interrogate how feelings are intertwined with material, political, and social relations of power. To reflect on how some feelings—no matter how objectively offensive, irrational, or self-serving they can be— can be validated, legitimized, and emboldened when people have been politically primed to defer to the feelings and interpretive filters of one group over another.