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Rehab Bassam 🍉

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Writer, editor, translator, daydreamer, lover of books and baked goods. I read dictionaries for fun but cat videos always welcome. Egyptian, chasing the sun around Newcastle. صعيدية من برج الثور

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عمو حسام @barracks.substack.com · 13/12/2024
Yale students overwhelmingly pass divestment from Israel
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Yale students overwhelmingly pass divestment from Israel - War on Gaza - War on Gaza
Yale University students have overwhelmingly supported a referendum calling for the institution to divest from companies involved in the production of military weapons, including those supplying arms ...
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Lit Hub @literaryhub.bsky.social · 13/12/2024
“The bullet goes right by you / a dove shakes the stars from its wings / casting peace upon your darkened way.” Read “The bullet,” a poem by Sahar Rabah, translated from Arabic by Ammiel Alclay. buff.ly/49DbWjR
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“The bullet,” a Poem by Sahar Rabah
“The bullet”  The bullet goes right by you in the wake of its echo you count the wishes you’re worn out waiting for—you absolve them and say: maybe there’s more waiting to a lifetime. The bullet go…
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Comma Press @commapress.bsky.social · 11/12/2024
Thrilled to see Egypt + 100 (Ed. @ahmednaji.bsky.social) feature in World Literature Today's notable translations of 2024 alongside so many great works! 📙Get Egypt + 100 here commapress.co.uk/books/egypt-... Check out the full list 👇 www.worldliteraturetoday.org/blog/lit-lis...
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World Literature Today’s 75 Notable Translations of 2024, by Michelle Johnson
It’s time to celebrate another year of translations, and there’s plenty to celebrate.
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ArabLit & ArabLit Quarterly @arablit.bsky.social · 10/12/2024
Finally, Radwa Ashour's complete Granada trilogy is available in Kay Heikkenen's English translation. Today on ArabLit, authors, translators, & scholars reflect: arablit.org/2024/12/10/a...
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Rehab Bassam 🍉 @hadouta.bsky.social · 07/12/2024
الليلة ليلة هنا وسرور.. وكوبايات وصواني بتدور #سوريا
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elia ayoub @ayoub.bsky.social · 07/12/2024
We are likely to see Saydnaya prison liberated soon from the Assad regime. Between 2011 and 2015 alone the Assad regime hanged as many as 13,000 civilians in Saydnaya prison. Some of the worst horrors committed by the regime have been in Saydnaya.
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Qusay Noor @qusaynoor.net · 06/12/2024
Detainees since 2011, since the beginning of the #Syrian revolution, they were in #Suwayda prison, they were released today
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Amnesty International UK @amnestyuk.bsky.social · 05/12/2024
1/5 A groundbreaking Amnesty report published today concludes Israeli authorities are committing genocide against Palestinians in Gaza. www.amnesty.org.uk/genocide-rep...
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Comma Press @commapress.bsky.social · 06/12/2024
‘Refaat no murió, se multiplicó!’ (Refaat did not die, he multiplied!) Susan Abulhawa remembers Refaat Alareer in LitHub lithub.com/susan-abulha...
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Susan Abulhawa Remembers Refaat Alareer: Poet, Teacher, Husband, Father
On December 7, 2013, a Ph.D. student in Malaysia reached out to me by email because he was writing a research paper on a section of Mornings in Jenin. He told me that he had taught my novel at the …
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Amplify Palestine @amplifypalestine.bsky.social · 05/12/2024
"God willing us, we will continue to publish and print, no matter how difficult the circumstances we are living today. We will continue." [Photos of the beautiful, beloved bookshop that Mansour rebuilt in 2022 before Israel destroyed it yet again www.palestinechronicle.com/in-photos-ga... ]
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Ahmad Barclay @bothness.bsky.social · 03/12/2024
Looking forward to being part of this #London event with Mona Chalabi on Monday 16 December to promote the new #VisualizingPalestine book. Moderated by Hazem Jamjoum & chaired by Lama Tawakkol www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/data-story...
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Data storytelling for liberation
Join designers Mona Chalabi and Ahmad Barclay to discuss Visualizing Palestine: A Chronicle of Colonialism and the Struggle for Liberation.
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ArabLit & ArabLit Quarterly @arablit.bsky.social · 02/12/2024
Banipal Translation Prize Announces 2024’s 6-book Shortlist arablit.org/2024/12/02/b...
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Jeremy Scahill @jeremyscahill.com · 02/12/2024
REVEALED: Drop Site News has uncovered that Israel has now contracted private companies specializing in settler construction to work in northern Gaza. Younis Tirawi reports for @dropsitenews.com www.dropsitenews.com/p/israeli-pr...
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REVEALED: Israeli Settler Company Specializing in West Bank Outposts Now at Work in Northern Gaza
A prominent Israeli settler offered me $165 per day to demolish homes in Beit Lahia
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Rehab Bassam 🍉 @hadouta.bsky.social · 02/12/2024
Can’t put this book down 🤩 so happy I’ll be seeing Leila in @nclanews.bsky.social soon 🥳
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Rehab Bassam 🍉 @hadouta.bsky.social · 02/12/2024
Loved every episode of this podcast ❤️
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Progressive International @progintl.bsky.social · 01/12/2024
“Phenomenal things are happening in battle because of the [Amazon-provided] Nimbus public cloud," said the head of Israel’s National Cyber Directorate in February. Amazon is complicit. This Black Friday, not a dime for genocide. Sign up now: buff.ly/4g31R1t.
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This Black Friday: Not A Dime For Genocide
This year, Black Friday falls on 29 November: the International Day of Solidarity with the Palestinian People. It’s time to take a stand for the people of Palestine, and hit Amazon where it hurts.…
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ArabLit & ArabLit Quarterly @arablit.bsky.social · 01/12/2024
More about these books forthcoming in December 2024 at arablit.org -- also, we'll have an excerpt of the wild, satiric Palestinian novel Sand-Catcher on Pub Day, Dec. 3.
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Mai El-Sadany @maitelsadany.bsky.social · 30/11/2024
Heart shattering to learn an Israeli drone has targeted and assassinated Mahmoud Almadhoun, one of the founders and chefs behind the Gaza Soup Kitchen. What started as four pots and essential ingredients in Bait Lahia had grown into a remarkable effort to feed 3,000 people daily.
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Mira Al Hussein @miraalhussein.bsky.social · 25/11/2024
Among the de-listed names are those of deceased individuals, such as Sheikh Yusuf Al-Qaradawi and Abdullah Mohamed Morsi. @thenewarab.bsky.social
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Egypt removes 716 names from terrorism watchlist
No further details were immediately available about the identities or political affiliations of the individuals removed from the blacklist.
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Falastin Flip @tameeolivefern.bsky.social · 22/11/2024
So few hours after Italy had said it would comply with the ICC warrants & arrest Netanyahu & it wouldn’t recognise occupied Jerusalem as Israel’s capital,,,, Israel struck Italian UN peacekeepers in Lebanon?? You can’t convince me this isn’t deliberate & in revenge
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sea slug @rainfrog.bsky.social · 02/11/2024
Thanks to Fitzcarraldo for sending me the new edition of Edward Said's The Question of Palestine. Great to see this classic reissued at an important time, with Said's later essay on the one-state solution and new preface by the excellent Saree Makdisi.
Edward Said's The Question of Palestine, white cover on wooden table
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Owen Jones @owenjones.bsky.social · 21/11/2024
The Western media conspired to cover up Israel's genocidal intentions from the beginning. The Israeli state said it was going to do. The Western media lied to you about it. Launching my new Substack with the facts. Subscribe here 👇 owenjonesjourno.substack.com/p/exposed-ho...
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How the Western media covered up Israel's genocidal intent from day one
As arrest warrants are issued for Israeli leaders, it must not be forgotten that they confessed to their crimes from the start. Western media outlets chose to suppress the truth
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The New Arab @thenewarab.bsky.social · 21/11/2024
Progressive International - a global alliance of activists, leaders, and organisations advocating for social justice - has unveiled the Watermelon Index, a live database exposing over 400 UK companies allegedly linked to Israel's war on Gaza and the occupation of Palestinian territories ⬇
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Watermelon Index launched to expose UK firms' 'role in Gaza war'
Progressive International's Watermelon Index exposes over 400 UK companies complicit in Israel's Gaza war.
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Jeremy Scahill @jeremyscahill.com · 21/11/2024
“This is a watershed event in the history of international justice. The ICC has never, in over 21 years, indicted a pro-Western official. Indeed, no international court since World War II has done so." Our story on the ICC warrant just issued for Netanyahu: www.dropsitenews.com/p/icc-netany...
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The International Criminal Court Issues 'Watershed' Warrants for Netanyahu, Gallant, for War Crimes in Gaza
The court rejected arguments by the U.S. and Israel that the ICC does not have jurisdiction, subjecting the officials to potential arrest in 124 countries
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Timothy E. Kaldas @tekaldas.bsky.social · 21/11/2024
Now that the ICC issued arrest warrants for Netanyahu for war crimes while the ICJ issued a series of provisional measures Israel is ignoring as it faces charges of genocide, every country must do all it can to end this war ASAP. First and foremost, that means a full arms embargo.
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Ahmed Gamal Ziada @ziada.bsky.social · 21/11/2024
أعلى رأس في السلطة لا يريد حرية علاء عبد الفتاح
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هيثم محمدين: أعلى رأس في السلطة السياسية في مصر لا يريد حرية علاء عبد الفتاح
YouTube video by زاوية ثالثة
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Declassified UK @declassifieduk.org · 21/11/2024
Palestinian and Irish lawyers take Keir Starmer to court over arming Israel. Watch on our YouTube channel www.youtube.com/watch?v=aQDs...
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Palestinian and Irish lawyers take Keir Starmer to court over arming Israel
YouTube video by Declassified UK
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Comma Press @commapress.bsky.social · 21/11/2024
MANCHESTER WINTER BOOK FAIR 🎄📚 📅Nov 23 📍 House of Books and Friends, MCR On the subject of Northern publishing - come by House of Books and Friends in Manchester this Saturday, chat with us and pick up some indie books for Xmas 🎁 Free entry but RSVP here 👇 www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/manchester...
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Comma Press @commapress.bsky.social · 20/11/2024
📺MODERN FOLKLORE SHORT STORY COURSE 📅Starts Jan 13 📍Online Via Zoom 🎟️ eventbrite.co.uk/e/modern-fol... Learn the art of dark fiction with author Matt Wesolowski, explore folk storytelling old & new, & have your work published in a Comma eBook. 🎫Bursaries available ✉️george.forster@commapress.co.uk
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Declassified UK @declassifieduk.org · 20/11/2024
As the UK continues to provide military equipment to Israel, David Lammy pretends to parliament that -- "We have the most robust [arms] export licensing regime in the world". #DCUKparliament
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Abdelrahman ElGendy @elgendy95.bsky.social · 18/11/2024
“The lives of political prisoners of the Middle East are traded like currency in the Western political bazaar.” On the Day of the Imprisoned Writer, I wrote for The Markaz Review. themarkaz.org/liberation-c...
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Liberation Cosplay: on the Day of the Imprisoned Writer
Events like the Day of the Imprisoned Writer risk becoming mere spectacles until they challenge the status quo.
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ArabLit & ArabLit Quarterly @arablit.bsky.social · 19/11/2024
Help us find publishers of lit in translation? go.bsky.app/KJy5XJk
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Rehab Bassam 🍉 @hadouta.bsky.social · 19/11/2024
Beautiful. Although not the November I’m muddling through. open.spotify.com/track/0man6I...
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The Seasons, Op. 37a: XI. November. Troika
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Rehab Bassam 🍉 @hadouta.bsky.social · 19/11/2024
And miles to go before I sleep…
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Lit Hub @literaryhub.bsky.social · 19/11/2024
Last night outside the Giller Prize gala, authors and book workers protested the organization’s ties to genocide and apartheid.
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The book world’s most bloodstained award was handed out in Toronto last night.
The gala for the Giller Prize—formally Canada’s most prestigious literary award, now synonymous with artwashing genocide and apartheid—took place at Toronto’s Park Hyatt hotel last nigh…
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Rehab Bassam 🍉 @hadouta.bsky.social · 19/11/2024
Which is always bad news for the 120 million people of Egypt.
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Rehab Bassam 🍉 @hadouta.bsky.social · 19/11/2024
I tied my curly hair back, wore a new coat, showed up late and dodged a (conversational) bullet! 💃🏻
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Electronic Frontier Foundation @eff.org · 18/11/2024
Today is British-Egyptian activist and coder Alaa Abd El Fattah’s 43rd birthday—his eleventh behind bars. EFF continues to call for his immediate release and urges the UN Working Group on Arbitrary Detention to issue its opinion on his incarceration www.eff.org/deeplinks/20...
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On Alaa Abd El Fattah’s 43rd Birthday, the Fight For His Release Continues
Today marks prominent British-Egyptian coder, blogger, activist, and political prisoner Alaa Abd El Fattah’s 43rd birthday—his eleventh behind bars. Alaa should have been released on September 29, but...
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Ben Gidley @bengidley.bsky.social · 18/11/2024
“Bleak and dystopian” Shabna Begum of the Runnymede Trust talks on the occasion of the publication of important new report on UK Islamophobia www.theguardian.com/news/2024/no...
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Muslims face ‘bleak and dystopian’ climate in UK, says head of thinktank
Shabna Begum says racist riots will return if Islamophobia continues being ‘an acceptable currency’ in politics
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Philip Proudfoot @philipproudfoot.bsky.social · 18/11/2024
While we are contemplating the significance of Ukraine gaining the ability to strike inside Russia, Israel has yet again bombed central Beirut, less than 10 minutes walk to the Lebanese parliament, UNESCWA, and even the British Embassy This is the equivalent of bombing Whitehall
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Stephanie Kirchgaessner @skirchy.bsky.social · 18/11/2024
A German architecture foundation has rescinded one of its €10,000 (£8,360) awards from a British artist over an open letter he signed promising a boycott of Israeli cultural institutions. *The prize is named after a Nazi architect www.theguardian.com/world/2024/n...
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German architecture award rescinded over British artist’s Israel boycott vow
Schelling Architecture Foundation refuses to give James Bridle his €10k prize after he signed open letter
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Hakim Abdelnaeem @hakimabdelnaeem.bsky.social · 18/11/2024
This morning, Facebook reminded me that today is Alaa Abd El-Fattah’s 43rd birthday—13 of those years spent in prison, with only a few fleeting months of freedom. His mother has been on hunger strike for over a month now. Freedom for Alaa Abd El-Fattah. #freealaa
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Rehab Bassam 🍉 @hadouta.bsky.social · 18/11/2024
She waited patiently while I fumbled with the mobile. Such grace 🥹
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Mondoweiss @mondoweiss.net · 18/11/2024
The ecocide and genocide in Gaza embody eco-apartheid, a violent, racialized expansion of colonial land grabs and resource plunder that enriches a privileged few at the expense of the majority. mondoweiss.net/2024/11/pale..
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Palestine against an eco-apartheid world
In coming years, eco-apartheid will become more prominent worldwide as colonial violence is used to maintain and safeguard Western interests and profits. We are seeing this future in Gaza today.
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Words Without Borders & WWB Campus @wwborders.bsky.social · 17/11/2024
In commemoration of Day of the Imprisoned Writer, a poem by an imprisoned writer, translated by an imprisoned writer. By Kerima Lorena Tariman, translated from Filipino by Amanda Socorro Lacaba Echanis
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June 12, in Prison - Words Without Borders
In commemoration of Day of the Imprisoned Writer, a poem by the late Kerima Lorena Tariman, translated by another imprisoned writer.
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Joseph Willits 🍉 🦩🦚🏳️‍🌈🇵🇸🇱🇧 @josephwillits.bsky.social · 17/11/2024
Horrendous scenes from Mar Elias in Beirut following Israeli attacks. Israel continues to attack Lebanon with impunity. The political will to end its destruction and devastation for Palestinians in Gaza, and in Lebanon, is seemingly non existent. www.instagram.com/reel/DCe0jOD...
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