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Basyma with a WHY

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مصدر عام | The Public Source @thepublicsource.bsky.social · 06/02/2026
Can reconstruction occur as war itself continues? Read more from Public Works Studio, translated by Basyma Saad (@basyma.bsky.social): thepublicsource.org/reconstructi...
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What Kind of Reconstruction Do We Want?
What does reconstruction mean when life itself has been the target?
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Wesley Morgan @wesleymorgan.bsky.social · 15/07/2025
Deep dive by Haaretz on the accelerated, more methodical demolitions of whole towns that are at the core of the IDF’s current Operation Gideon’s Chariots in Gaza. “After we're done, they won't be able to come back here for years,” the commander of the 7th Armored Brigade says of Khan Younis.
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Rafah is gone. Razed to the ground. It's not the only city decimated by the Israeli army
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Basyma with a WHY @basyma.bsky.social · 31/03/2025
blabla they're not mutually exclusive but maybe we need less cool new psychoanalysis summer camps and more cool new maoist summer camps NO SHADE I PROMISE
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Basyma with a WHY @basyma.bsky.social · 31/03/2025
gruesome and vulgar but actually try to imagine seeing dead children anywhere else in the world killed en masse while celebrating Christmas or Hanukkah or whatever the fuck
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Mai El-Sadany @maitelsadany.bsky.social · 24/03/2025
In a targeted attack on his car, Israel has killed Al-Jazeera's Hossam Shabat, who was only 23 years old and was one of the last remaining journalists in Gaza. There are no words.
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Basyma with a WHY @basyma.bsky.social · 05/03/2025
the doll's breakup music being Abbasid-era Sufi poetry set to a Nahawand maqam www.youtube.com/watch?v=zBhd...
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فريدة مقام نهاوند و الله ما طلعت شمس
YouTube video by Abdallh Ahmed
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Basyma with a WHY @basyma.bsky.social · 18/02/2025
The amount of sorrow, pain, and rage currently being felt by Shi'a and Palestinian communities in Lebanon—truly no one can begin to understand this if they have not spoken to a person who has experienced real loss in the war 🧵
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Basyma with a WHY @basyma.bsky.social · 17/02/2025
There is always a surplus of psychic terror in Zionist violence that goes far beyond its tactical utility. This abhorrent reality is the "ceasefire" in the south
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Drop Site @dropsitenews.com · 13/02/2025
The Israeli military’s invasion of Tulkarm Refugee Camp in the northern West Bank has entered its 18th day, displacing 10,500 Palestinians and creating a severe humanitarian crisis. The Media Committee in Tulkarm Refugee Camp shares the following:
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Basyma with a WHY @basyma.bsky.social · 13/02/2025
chaser trade in Beirut can be sloppy (they will come up to you and say they "like ladyboys" if you're flat-chested) but at least they TAKE INITIATIVE
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Basyma with a WHY @basyma.bsky.social · 12/02/2025
this review by Mary Turfah of No Other Land perfectly lays out the film's fanciful clinging on to a would-be liberal Zionism and its refusal to acknowledge Palestinian resistance beyond non-violent activism t.co/NLwZIKMIHM
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https://mubi.com/en/notebook/posts/no-other-land-for-whom
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Basyma with a WHY @basyma.bsky.social · 07/02/2025
i enjoy post-punk a lot but i also feel like, as a genre, it's so internally homogeneous? a lot of post-punk songs sound insanely similar to me
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hannah proctor @hhnnccnnll.bsky.social · 04/02/2025
"What has transpired in Gaza is of such epochal monumentality and obliterating significance that it troubles every distinction, every category..." Tobi Haslett 'On a Painting by Hamishi Farah' canopycanopycanopy.com/contents/on-...
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On a Painting by Hamishi Farah | Triple Canopy
Laughter, seriousness, and a portrait of Joe Chialo, the smiling face of German censorship....
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Basyma with a WHY @basyma.bsky.social · 05/02/2025
i'm so entertained by the men who stare at me and SCOWL HARD for actual stretches of time? bitch you're gonna get a cramp
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Basyma with a WHY @basyma.bsky.social · 29/01/2025
if you're in Berlin, actually don't miss this, it's going to be REAL
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Basyma with a WHY @basyma.bsky.social · 24/01/2025
WARNING group chat still queening out about the bluesky exodus
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Basyma with a WHY @basyma.bsky.social · 24/01/2025
my question is how do we guarantee this app won't eventually sell to another gazillionaire overlord? Pinky promise? OUR EGGS IN WHICH BASKET DIVAS?
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sebastjanbr.bsky.social @sebastjanbr.bsky.social · 23/01/2025
who knew that in 2025 neurodivergent oligarchs would force us into a mass exodus to a soulless purgatory with a late-90s-Mariah-coded logo
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Faisal فيصل @faisalhamadah.bsky.social · 13/01/2025
As an arab who has lived with palestinians my entire life in many different places, it is impossible to describe how difficult, discombobulating and deeply shocking it is to see palestinians beg. It is just not something i ever thought to see…
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