#samah

[monamoe]

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[a-bluedream-posts]

Samah by mikonotai

[flordeolvido]

[matbenetti17]

My childhood fav book series 💓 (a little traditional art series I've been procrastinating for too long) Let's start with the princesses

Nives, princess of the Ices 🏔️❄️

Kalea, princess of Corals 🏝️⛵

Samah, princess of the Desert 🏜️🐎

Yara, princess of the Forests 🎋🌿

Diamante, princess of Darkness 🦋💍

The Queen of Sleep 👑🏰

[postalignments]

hellooo :)

how are you?

I'm doing good! How're you?

[worldsewage]

Average octarian deserter

[houseofpurplestars]

Palestinian writer Samah Fadil posted on twitter that two of her cousins were able to evacuate Gaza

[laurellynnleake]

Who is left out when we narrate the story of Palestine? - Zena Agha, Skin Deep Magazine, 8/8/22

The pieces in [PALESTINE: WAYS OF BEING] are efforts to shape our future. They shed light on three un- and under-explored areas of Palestinian life: queerness, incarceration and Blackness. Looking at where we came from and where we’re going, they expand on some of the ways of being Palestinian today.

Tareq Baconi: Dreams of a Palestine where I can hold myself whole

Living in a time not mine: An anonymous letter from inside an Israeli prison

Mousa Qous: In the heart of the Old City, generations of Afro-Palestinians persevere in the face of occupation

Samah Fadil: Putting the pieces together: Fragments of oral history in exile

illustration by Aude Nasr @audenasr

[vyorei]

I found a post about Palestine and olive trees about a week ago, this reminded me of it so I'm gonna post the text below.

This was posted on Facebook by Dima Seelawi on the 29th of October 2018, it just happened to find its way to my newsfeed:

"When I was young, I never really understood my parents insistence to only use olive oil imported from Palestine. It took a long time and a great distance in a process that was neither cheap nor convenient. The oil came in old beat-up containers that did not look appealing to me at all. In my head, if they wanted to support distant family back home, they could just send them money and save us and them a big hassle. We could just use the nice looking olive oil containers from the nearby store. Yet, this was never an option in our household. The only olive oil we used at home was from Palestine.

As I grew up and started a student part-time job, I worked with olive oil a little. I knew all about olive oil imported from Spain, Italy, and other countries. I knew which ones were better and more expensive. I also learned to tell, based on the pungent taste, which ones were extra virgin. I was tempted to use my employee discount to bring home one of the fancy bottles and use at our kitchen. I could not get myself to do it, and I did not exactly know why. I felt like it would be disrespectful to my parents even if it didn’t make sense to me. It did not feel right. It was not an option.

After living in Palestine for a year during the olive picking season, something changed. The olive picking season in Palestine is holy.

Palestinians relate to the weather based on how it would benefit or harm the olives. There is well-known unspoken rule about treating olive trees with respect. There is a day off from work just to pick olives. On public transportation, it is not unusual to hear someone on the phone telling their friend to stop by for their share of this year’s olive oil stored in what used to be a Coca-Cola or a liquor bottle. A driver will stop in the middle of the way to give his brother- in- law a jar of olives that are so close to one another that they start to crush showing their insides.

In Nablus, the owner of the Nabulsi soap factory takes pride in how picky he is about getting his olive oil. He insists on filling a cup to let me smell how authentic it is and smirks as he sees my diasporic facial expressions transform in appreciation of its strong smell running through all of my brain cells.

I started noticing how olive oil is an essential part of so many dishes. “Palestinians drink more olive oil than water” I would jokingly say and they would laugh in agreement. Olive oil is truly an everyday ritual.

They fantasize about its color when it’s fresh and remind me that it starts to change as it reacts with oxygen over time. They dip their bread into olive oil, just like that and without any additions, and enjoy it more than the sweetest of all foods. I can guarantee that every lunch invitation (عزومة) I received during the olive-picking season was a chance for my hosts to share their olive oil using Msakhan (a traditional Palestinian dish).

I now have a deeper understanding of the psychology behind the burning of olive trees by Israeli settlers and why farmers moan at the scene as if they lost a loved one.

Wherever you are, if it’s accessible to you, make sure your olive oil is Palestinian. Your ancestors would want that."

And this picture was attached:

Link to the article in the header image:

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HELP REBUILD MAHER AND SAMAH'S LIVES

https://gofund.me/98ccb1d7

hello my friends, i write this with a heavy heart to implore you to hear the story of Maher Al Attar who is in dire need of our support.

a beloved community member in my city (WHO HAS HER OWN FUNDRAISER, which is $40,894 away from its goal and you can access HERE) has shared with me that her relatives, young couple Samah Alaydi and Maher Al-Attar, have started a Gofundme campaign to support their dream of rebuilding their future after it was destroyed by the Israeli occupation.

Maher and Samah have suffered unfathomable losses in the genocide. the IOF has destroyed the home that Maher had built from scratch, martyred 9 members of his family, and injured his right leg so severely that it had to be amputated in March. now, Maher and Samah wish to recover, rebuild their home, and start a family together. to read what Maher and Samah have written about their experiences, please visit their Gofundme campaign, which you can access here

Samah and Maher need safety, stability, and access to medical care so they can begin to recover from the horrors the occupation has imposed on them. we can help to support their dream with our donations.

$5,525 / $50,000

today is Saturday, August 10th, 2024. i'll update this post regularly to reflect the fundraiser's progress. for updates directly from Maher and Samah, you can follow them on instagram at @maher._.alattar and @samahmansour204.

thank you for reading and sharing, and god willing every Palestinian will soon regain safety and peace

[monamoe]

Samah my queen your so hot

[kianf1sh]

(collapses in your ask box)

squish moot :3

(no this is NOT canon because for some reason you care about that)

SAMAH WHAT ARE YOU DOING???

(and hey the thing about cannon was a silly one time thing don't hold it against me!)

[egotistic26]

Samah Tanzania | Instagram

[flordeolvido]

[swanasource]

“On this episode we have @samah_fadil , an Afro-Palestinian woman who joins us to talk about the genocide in her homeland, the erasure of Black Palestinians, imperialism, anti-blackness, links with BLM and more!”

Centering Afro-Palestinian Voices

[the-gimmick-authority]

(Casually snatches up a certain red mask piece the authority is keeping somewhere and vanishes just as quickly)

- @samahs-chaotic-mess

[they're blipped back, but unconcious]

[she appears, standing over them] The defenses worked. You were right, they're looking for this. They can't touch this or they'll be hurt worse, nobody but us can.

Good job. @dei-stultus-aurum what d'you think 'bout this?