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According to journalist Hani Abu Rezeq, there's a toddler in Ghazzah suffering from a meningitis inflammation of the brain. The family provided a number for the uncle of the kid, for anyone who has the coverage to call them and sort out possibility of fundraising. The situation cannot be delayed, it has to be addressed urgently. I'm posting this screenshot instead of an actual video because the video of the symptoms is very disturbing and distressing. February 18th 2024.

The uncle's name is Ayman Jaber, and his phone number is 0049 176 79799305.

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You're not stupid there's no such thing in Morocco. Very much middle-eastern bread.

בעלי התנורים, עזיז ועטייה מכרו במיוחד פיתות עשויות קמח סולת, לבני העדה המרוקאית. בני עדה זו אהבו במיוחד סוג זה של לחם והם קנו אותו עוד ביום החמישי, לכבוד שבת. לחם מרוקאי זה נקרא בשם כומאש. The owners of the ovens, Aziz and Atiya, especially sold pitas made of semolina flour, to the members of the Moroccan community. The members of this community especially liked this type of bread and they bought it on the fifth day, in honor of Shabbat. This Moroccan bread is called khomash.

does anyone know what kind of bread he's talking about here? I know Moroccan semolina bread as "khobz dyal smid." semolina-containing pastries and breads are meloui, baghrir, harcha... there's nothing I know as 5omach, komach, 7omach, &c.

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i know palestine will be free in my lifetime. i know palestine will be free in my lifetime. i know i will see the day palestine is free and i will see her shake the dust of occupation from her heels. i know the old people and children of her history will return to their ancestral homes, their houses, their valleys, their olive groves, not to to set their roots down again because their roots have always been there, will always be there, but to grow again, bear fruit for harvest, and never be cut down again. i know palestine will be free. i grieve for palestine and dream of palestinian joy.

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I literally just realized that it's been months since my last post, so first things first:

FROM THE RIVER TO THE SEA

PALESTINE WILL BE FREE

I have been keeping up with the atrocities "Israeli" settlers and colonizers have been inflicting on Palestinians as well as Hamas's Aqsa Flood Battle since the 8th of October.

Words fail to describe how life-altering it has been to just witness this genocide on social media, and my brain cannot compute the greed and filth of white supremacy and its pet project, zionism.

I decided during the past two months that sharing and commenting aren't enough for me so I decided to use the tools at my disposition to speak up on these things from my perspective on social media.

More recently, during the Global Strike initiated by Bisan, things have gotten so dire that the only objective we need to collectively focus on is opening the Rafah Border Crossing.

I have been trying to find information about mobility from Cairo or El Arich to Rafah, since most people who are serious about this are foreigners. So if any Egyptians out here can share with us what the logistics look like over there, that would be helpful.

#FreePalestine

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120,000 armenians are currently being driven from nagorno-karabakh, which they've called home for 2,000 years, by azerbaijan. they are going to armenia, a small, poor country without international backing. please donate to the armenian food bank, a non-profit operating in yerevan that is providing incoming displaced persons with food, clothes, and hygienic goods. i personally know people involved and i can tell you that your money will be put to good use

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so much happened these last four days I can't even begin to describe the frustration I feel being far from my home country. unfortunately most grassroot organizations working with displaced victims don't post in English, but if you'd still like to take a closer look at the community support and mutual aid happening on the field right now I recommend the following Instagram pages:

• @banquealimentaire : A charity association which worked for years on providing student hostels with necessities, currently collecting funds and donations for the victims

• @northafricangirlsclub : Cultural and political coalition led by NA women for NA women, providing different mutual aid communications (ENG available)

• @fatym : Renowned Moroccan journalist and activist, currently photoreporting the situation in devastated villages affected by the quakes

• @the.anou : A professional development association which empowered the women living in the affected regions for years (ENG available)

• @mbla.maroc : Moroccan Biodiversity and Livelihood Association, working directly with the victims (ENG available)

• @psychologuesmaghreb : Provides mental health and ptsd support

I doubt I'll be able to post more updates here as I'm myself trying to get as involved as possible but these pages + independent anglosaxon journalists covering MEA affairs will hopefully keep you posted.

I will make another post though on some reflections I'm having regarding the local, national, and international media coverage this disaster is having and how numerous propaganda are being inserted in the narrative surrounding it.

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please if you live in morocco and can donate please help in any way

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Tw: Transphobia, queerphobia

The worst thing about the ongoing intensification of queerphobia in Morocco is its futility. We're talking about a country where homosexuality is already criminalized, so what's this about?

Moroccan men live in constant delusion to prove that they deserve to dominate the world. They've always had this imaginary one-sided competition with white men which makes them desperately want to weigh in and replicate western patriarchal trends and ideologies. The current trans panic is one of the biggest propaganda narratives in the West right now, so what do Moroccan men do? Try to add their two cents by commenting on how "there are more and more trans people in this country" when this nation has been regressing in every aspect for the past 15 years. 

So, realistically, what can they really do? A few months ago, Algerian politicians successfully called for a ban on "gay rainbow symbolism" from all kinds of products. I wouldn't be surprised if our parrots start pushing for something similar. Cis women will also be more and more scrutinized and I'm sure there will be a rise in sexual harassment and assault against all types of women under the guise of anti-trans suspicion. 

Moroccan men are the literal scum of the Earth. They're convinced if they just throw enough of us under the bus, they'll magically gain white approval and ascend to the top of the patriarchy. They won't stop at anything to pursue this mirage, so I'm sure they'll get more and more audacious in their pursuit by overturning the few feminist and child protection laws we have in the future.

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Are languages from nearby regions similar just due to often being from the same language family, or does exchange between languages play a large role?

Yes, exchange almost certainly plays a bigger role in grammatical and phonological similarity than actual relatedness does. That's why language relationships are diagnosed primarily by looking for sound correspondences in core vocabulary, rather than by comparing grammar or pronunciation. Core vocabulary often retains very ancient features, while grammar and pronunciation change rapidly and are very susceptible to outside influence.

Linguistic features that have proliferated by spreading to nearby languages are called areal features. Languages in geographical proximity (or, really: languages between which there is a lot of bilingualism) often cluster into groups called sprachbünde which share many features between them. This is the primary reason for the general similarity of most European languages: English is about as closely related to French as it is to Hindi, but English and French share a lot of grammatical and phonological features because they have been on close contact for a long time. For a converse example, English is fairly closely related to Icelandic, but because they've been isolated from each other for many centuries, they look very different. As I said, you can often pierce through these areal effects by looking at core vocabulary though. A look at English vs. Icelandic kinship terms, for instance, and then comparison with corresponding French kinship terms, will quickly make it evident that English and Icelandic are closer, and a comparison of English vs. French vs. Hindi kinship terms will make it clear that all three are just about equally far apart.

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Algeria. Algerian tile/Zellij from Tlemcen dating back to the 14th century. قطعة من الزليج التلمساني تعود إلى القرن الرابع عشر

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I'm not American, but grew up in a country that is REALLY used to centering American opinions. I'd love to see how many people here are actually American, and how many are just accepting of a lot of American content.

Boundaries are fake, so most places show up at least twice. Choose the grouping that you connect with more.

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AAAA ASSUGAZ AMEGAZ, HAPPY HAPPY YENNAYER EVERYONE !!

YEAR 2973 LETS GO

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ⴰⵙⵙⴻⴳⴰⵙ ⴰⵎⴻⴳⴰⵣ 2973!

Aseggas ameggaz to all my fellow imazighen and north Africans ♡

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I'm a bit late because i slept for an entire day but !!

Happy yennayer !!

Including volo

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Incredible recent British unionist bit:

“Scots language is xenophobic and is specifically spoken to make foreigners feel unwelcome when visiting Scotland.”

Imagine visiting Japan and going “Too much Japanese language here, clearly this is a hate crime.”

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تونس في 28 أوت 1982

استقبال المقاومة الفلسطينية

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sofra - a traditional low table for dining while sitting on the floor and traditional bosnian food.