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Omar Sakr

@omarsakr.bsky.social
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Queer Muslim. Author of five books. Father of two boys. Latest: The Nightmare Sequence (UQP, 2025). linktr.ee/OmarjSakr 🇱🇧🇹🇷2170

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The Electronic Intifada @intifada.bsky.social · 17/09/2026
Ameer had just left home when he was shot and killed. He was 15.
electronicintifada.net
Jerusalem's children ensnared in a slow genocide
Ameer’s life was cut short by a soldier’s bullet and Israeli impunity.
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Simon Rosenberg @simonrosenberg.bsky.social · 12/09/2026
It took 2 days, but ABC has finally reported this, albeit with a pathetic attempt at 'balance'. More accurate was Andrew Brown's take: The Israel lobby "expected fear, expense and exhaustion to silence one journalist. Mary Kostakidis stood her ground, and an important piece of the wall gave way."
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Dr Ingrid M🪁 @ingridm.bsky.social · 05/09/2026
when the Australian government very occasionally and selectively condemns Israeli violence in the West Bank and the West Bank only, it is to minimise and obscure the true extent of Israeli atrocities across all of Palestine. english.palinfo.com/news/2026/09...
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West Bank squeezed by Israeli raids and settler attacks as displacement crisis deepens
The occupied West Bank is witnessing simultaneous escalation on two fronts.
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ryan cooper @ryanlcooper.com · 04/09/2026
the tide is turning folks. it’s a month late and a trillion dollars short, but it’s turning. even Trump can’t stop it
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Chase Madar @madar.bsky.social · 21/08/2026
Remarkable how little political noise it's made here in the US that a major American naval base in Bahrain was basically destroyed, and that this was kept quiet for five months www.nytimes.com/2026/08/14/u...
nytimes.com
Navy Carrier’s Problems Are Tied to Attacks on U.S. Base Early in War
Diego Garcia, a tiny island 2,200 miles from the Gulf of Oman, took over as the Navy’s logistics hub after Iran damaged a base in Bahrain.
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farukavdi.bsky.social @farukavdi.bsky.social · 21/08/2026
$20B p.a of public money for Catholic and independent schools, 94% of priv. schools religious: ‘In my non-curriculum classes, I learnt intolerance towards people of other faiths. bigotry and homophobia. that women are responsible for their own sexual assaults.’ #auspol www.smh.com.au/national/i-w...
smh.com.au
I went to an Opus Dei school. What I was taught was unbelievable
We were taught that watching pornography causes holes in the brain and homosexuality is a mental illness.
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Ketan Joshi @ketanjoshi.co · 14/08/2026
All of the AI nerds keep insisting that the water issues are fake while the companies keep pointing machine guns at authorities and demanding more water
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Steve Bullock @guitarmoog.bsky.social · 14/08/2026
UK: Fuck off foreigners. Do not come here. We will treat you appallingly. We will blame you for everything. We will charge you a fortune for impossible admin processes. There is nothing for you. Do NOT come here! Also UK: Why will no one come to our universities? www.theguardian.com/education/20...
theguardian.com
UK universities face ‘financial crisis’ amid collapse in international students
Higher education figures call on Labour to reverse tax on fees and warn institutions at risk of ‘going under’
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Why is a woman still not safe @treemuseums.bsky.social · 13/08/2026
Wheres the tech for women to protect themselves from stalkers, like sound cannons that cause the glasses screen to crack, or a really bright light that breaks the pervert glasses filming ability. Do we all need to buy lasers
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Bruno J. Navarro @brunojnavarro.bsky.social · 10/08/2026
July 2026 marked the hottest month on record for the contiguous United States, the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration said Monday, continuing a recent trend driven by human-caused climate change.
yahoo.com
US had hottest month on record in July
July 2026 marked the hottest month on record for the contiguous United States, the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration said Monday, continuing a recent trend driven by human-caused climate...
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Omar Sakr @omarsakr.bsky.social · 09/08/2026
The marketing scammers targeting authors are taking a new approach. Apparently the French are frothing for my 3rd poetry collection, Non-Essential Work!!! They must have it! What are we going to do about this?! Lol.
Hi Omar ,
While we haven't met or spoken before, I wanted to connect with you directly today because I recently presented Non-Essential Work to our reader circles across various language origins, and your book immediately generated a massive, unexpected reaction.
When I personally went through the details of your book, I was deeply drawn to your exploration of love, loss, and timeliness, using forms like the sonnet and sestina to contend with memory, history, and the quest for trust between poem and reader. It is a compelling premise, and seeing those specific details made it immediately obvious why this work resonated so strongly.
That brings me to the major challenge we are facing right now: while engagement from our English speaking circle was modest, our French speaking readers showed an overwhelming demand for your book. This French origin circle does everything, reading, speaking, and discussing, in French. Yet, after seeing your book, they insisted that I reach out to you directly to find out how they can get access to read it. We know this isn't just happening within our organization; many French readers out there are likely facing this exact same challenge right now because of how much love there is for your book.That brings me to the major challenge we are facing right now: while engagement from our English speaking circle was modest, our French speaking readers showed an overwhelming demand for your book. This French origin circle does everything, reading, speaking, and discussing, in French. Yet, after seeing your book, they insisted that I reach out to you directly to find out how they can get access to read it. We know this isn't just happening within our organization; many French readers out there are likely facing this exact same challenge right now because of how much love there is for your book.
Because our readers specifically pushed me to contact you about this, I wanted to open a direct line so we can solve this together. This represents immediate, high visibility engagement from a passionate group of readers standing by.
What are your thoughts on this situation, and what perspective or solutions can you share so we can help these French readers gain access to your book without missing out?
I look forward to hearing your perspective so I can report back to our readers!
Best regards,
Paul Benjamin
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Elise (they/them)🇦🇺 🏳️‍⚧️ @eliseswords.eurosky.social · 07/08/2026
Apparently we've got 162 gen ai data centres in Australia, & "90 in the pipeline, including some of the largest in the world." Here's a petition to pause them, for anyone concerned about the fossil fuel & water guzzling, climate change acceleration, noise pollution & long term health impacts, etc.
getup.org.au
Stop the Data Drain
An independent movement to build a progressive Australia and bring participation back into our democracy.
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elia ayoub @ayoub.bsky.social · 07/08/2026
Not only did he stop her from challenging the world record, but what he did was extremely dangerous and could have hurt her. She initially defended him, thinking it was a mistake. He’s the one who then came out and said he did it because he’s racist. www.bbc.com/sport/weight...
bbc.com
Powerlifting racism row: 'I feel unsafe' says Sonita Muluh
A powerlifter who was disqualified following an alleged racially motivated act has said she "does not feel safe" when competing, and says black athletes are frequently booed in competitions.
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elia ayoub @ayoub.bsky.social · 07/08/2026
Sonita Muluh (black Belgian woman) was sabotaged by a white spotter who admitted he did it on purpose because “I’m a racist” and “I hate you, pieces of shit”. She was going to try and break the world record and he made sure she couldn’t. She came in 2nd and was denied a repeat.
Powerlifting racism row: Spotter declares 'I am racist' after sabotaging star's record attempt
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Adam Bienkov @adambienkov.bsky.social · 07/08/2026
The continued political silence over the spread of these anti-migrant, anti-refugee pogroms in the UK is a disgrace. This one has been going on for three nights in a row now and the Home Secretary and Prime Minister haven't said a single word about it www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2026...
theguardian.com
Norfolk police arrest two men after officers injured during unrest over asylum plans
Homes of people believed to be asylum seekers attacked during two nights of violence in Thetford
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Omar Sakr @omarsakr.bsky.social · 02/08/2026
“Daddy’s getting really fat.” 4yo to my wife 😭 Welp. If ever a midlife crisis had an audio cue to begin, surely this is mine.
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Scott 𐚁 🦇 Cave 🦇 @hellabarnes.bsky.social · 11/07/2025
no, I said I wanted a tradewife. like a union electrician
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Dr Neil & Mr Price @drneil.bsky.social · 30/07/2026
It’s really starting to grind me down
The Barney/Moe’s Tavern meme

“Default AI features” Barney being kicked out
“Finding how to turn it all off in the settings” -satisfied Moe

Third panel Barney coming in behind “software update”
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David Milner @davemilbo.bsky.social · 28/07/2026
Remah Naji, a Palestinian in QLD, today has launched a free speech lawsuit against the QLD government for banning Palestinian liberation slogans. We spoke about how much "bullshit" the whole thing is after the Pine Gap blockade, here www.instagram.com/reel/DbUqJBj...
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davemilbo on Instagram: "Remah Naji, a Palestinian based in QLD, today launched a free speech case against the Crisafulli government for banning liberation …"
Remah Naji, a Palestinian based in QLD, today launched a free speech case against the Crisafulli government for banning liberation slogansView all comments
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Omar Sakr @omarsakr.bsky.social · 27/07/2026
Recently, I’ve been reading The Railway Children by E. Nesbit to my son - he picked it out at the bookshop when I read the title because he loves trains. It was published in 1906. Nobody tell Zionists about this page or they’ll try to get it cancelled.
A page from The Railway Children that begins with the line “the kind of clergyman when he points with a wand at the ‘Scenes from Palestine’”.
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ABC News Australia @news.abc.net.au · 25/07/2026
Berlin pride parade called off after car drives into crowd
abc.net.au
Breaking: Manhunt underway after car hits Berlin crowd
A Berlin pride parade is called off and a manhunt is underway after a car crashed into a crowd. 
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Dana El Kurd @danaelkurd.bsky.social · 25/07/2026
Palestinians are being ethnically cleansed from the west bank as we speak.
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Mekka Okereke @mekka.mekka-tech.com · 25/07/2026
This is a perfect illustration of why I have no faith in US mainstream journalism to protect us from anything.🤷🏿‍♂️ This is their idea of holding some people accountable: going to their banquets and causing fleeting, awkward moments, seconds before accepting an award from them and shaking their hand.
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Omar Sakr @omarsakr.bsky.social · 25/07/2026
A revolting empire in a terminal spiral. Cannot end soon enough.
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Mayor Zohran Kwame Mamdani @mayor.nyc.gov · 22/07/2026
Benjamin Netanyahu is a war criminal.
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MsPraxis @mspraxis.bsky.social · 22/07/2026
Fuck off Pauline. Fuck RIGHT OFF. We know you simp for DV perpetrators and blame women. Your own son is a DV offender and your bias has always been clear. Fuck RIGHT off, then keep going and fuck off some more, you ignorant, rancid pustule. #StopMVAF #Auspol
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Tim Lyons @picketer.bsky.social · 22/07/2026
Wait, WTF?
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Diane Duane @diane.dianeduane.com · 20/07/2026
Spotted on Tumblr (from a January 5, 2013 letter to the Guardian)
Sent to the Guardian
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John Wiswell @wiswell.bsky.social · 19/07/2026
Best 👏 Related 👏 Work 👏
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Jaime Cross @speedyjx.bsky.social · 18/07/2026
Thinking about how the UK government has repeatedly been like "we should lower our food standards to allow the import of US food" while the news from over there is currently "the shitting plague befouls us once again. Please do not consume sustenance."
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Omar Sakr @omarsakr.bsky.social · 19/07/2026
I’ve been reading Narnia to my 4yo lately and today he asked to watch LotR, which he is not ready for, so I found the Narnia movie. Now I’m looking at Mr Tumnus like, why is this fool wearing a scarf and not anything else? He is clearly cold. It is winter. He knows what clothes are. I am annoyed.
Mr Tumnus-goofy looking ass in Narnia.
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The Cathy Wilcox @cathywilcox.bsky.social · 19/07/2026
And it’s like they just forgot that a large part of her amplification is via international bot farms. She’s not a serious political player but the forces elevating her are a serious threat to democracy.
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Antfarmer @antfarmer.bsky.social · 19/07/2026
This racist woman with a single digit IQ has addressed an empty room of fellow idiots in London with utter garbage about Australian society. Why is any attention being paid to her at all. Time to draw the line. Polls schmolls. #insiders
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Omar Sakr @omarsakr.bsky.social · 19/07/2026
Anyone else have the niche experience of reading a novel that is adjacent in subject matter and theme to your WIP but is also so shit it stinks up the wind in your sails? Which is not to say that I’m dissuaded from continuing, just that this current passage of my travel smells real bad.
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Keith Fitzgerald @keithfitzgerald.bsky.social · 18/07/2026
youtube.com/watch?v=otag...
youtube.com
Complicit: How the West is Helping Israel Seize the West Bank | Al Jazeera Investigates
YouTube video by Al Jazeera English
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The Cathy Wilcox @cathywilcox.bsky.social · 16/07/2026
Leaderlike. My @smh cartoon.
Single frame. Albo at a desk in a dark room with “OFFICE OF AI” on door, hunched up looking at laptop, says, “How do I deal with AI?” Response in computer speech comes: “That’s a great question, Anthony! I can see you really want to do the smart thing in spite of all the risks, climate implications and likely human cost. I can help you look past those inconveniences and focus on producing optimal outcomes for my owners while making you sound responsible and leaderlike. How does that sound?”
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Indrapramit Das @indrapramitdas.bsky.social · 18/07/2026
Please help Mohammed get his son treatment for his vision loss. His family's gone through the ordeal of nearly losing Elias to Israel's ongoing genocidal famine, & you all helped him survive. He needs your help again:
chuffed.org
Help Mohammed and his famile.
Father's call from under the rubble: Save Elias's life
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Anton Hur @antonhur.com · 17/07/2026
At the last book festival I was in, a gay author said on stage how he was reluctant to comment on his position on Voldemould’s transphobia and trans rights in general and I was so completely taken aback that someone who wrote an entire book on queer culture would state such reluctance so publicly.
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Nick Feik @nickfeik.bsky.social · 14/07/2026
“greater clarity and speed for (data centre) approvals, and a streamlined process for verifying compliance” sounds a lot like waving through the worst shit imaginable in return for baubles
abc.net.au
Anthony Albanese maps out AI future with new national framework
Labor will develop a new national framework in response to artificial intelligence as it seeks to address the technology’s growing economic and social impacts.
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stranger @strangerous.bsky.social · 15/07/2026
VC of Syd Uni Mark Scott says he was blindsided by angry Jewish groups after agreeing to review the Uni’s Defence contracts with Israeli weapons manufacturers as part of a deal to end encampments Says they objected to the very idea of spkng to Muslim students🙄 Peak entitlement.
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Omar Sakr @omarsakr.bsky.social · 14/07/2026
Went down a horrible rabbit hole and this is how I find out that Eddings went to prison for child abuse? Man. Their books were among the first I read as a kid. Way too many in this field have turned out to be creeps in one way or another, abusers and bigots. It’s so depressing.
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alexvonwitzleben.bsky.social @alexvonwitzleben.bsky.social · 09/07/2026
#Morocco is finding a clever way to produce #cleanenergy while protecting one of its most valuable resources: water. By installing floating #solarpanels on reservoirs and dams, the country is allowing the same surface to generate electricity while helping reduce water evaporation during dry periods
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Simon Rosenberg @simonrosenberg.bsky.social · 09/07/2026
"The pattern is unmistakable: a lopsided inquiry more invested in shielding narratives around Israel than confronting the sources of genuine social fracture. A fracture that grows each day, and doesn’t seem to be improving social cohesion in the process." 💥🎯💯 #auspol
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Ed Zitron @edzitron.com · 09/07/2026
Cultist shit. A desperate last gasp operation to try and keep people believing, to bully them into acquiescing, to use social pressure to force a technology that will either continue to increase in cost and eventually will simply run out of cash to continue, truly corrosive to company culture.
To help meet those goals, Citi has scaled its program to more than 4,000 participants, divided between “champions”—or senior-level executives—and “accelerators,” those at various levels of the organization.

Adoption of Citi Stylus Workspaces, the most broadly available AI tool for workers at the company, has crept up from the single digits in late 2024 when it was rolled out to more than 80% now. The company said it credits the champion and accelerator program in part with that increase.

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Another key to the success of champion programs is making sure you tap the right people. According to Mars Snacking Chief Technology Officer Ramesh Kollepara, the most effective AI champions “are definitely not the most technical people.”

Rather, you’re looking for someone with innate curiosity who can act as a translator between business needs and technical capabilities, he said. 

Kollepara started a champions program two years ago while he was leading tech at Kellanova, and it has expanded since the snack company’s acquisition by Mars last year, now boasting 500 participants.

“Champions are the ones who socialize the broader potential of AI,” he said.
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David Milner @davemilbo.bsky.social · 09/07/2026
To accuse the ABC of anti-Israel bias you would have to be untethered from material reality, drowning in your own victim complex, and compulsively gaslighting. The ABC's pro-genocide bias has been overt and disgusting.
"Segal tells royal commission Gaza is 'over-represented' in ABC coverage"
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Yale AAUP @aaupyale.org · 06/07/2026
🚨🚨URGENT CALL TO ACTION: Calling ALL Yale Students, Alumni, Faculty, and Staff!!🚨🚨 According to The New York Times, Yale has reportedly entered settlement discussions with the U.S. Department of Justice over allegations involving admissions at the Yale School of Medicine.
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AusPoast @daryltractor.bsky.social · 02/07/2026
Omg. 💜 Via @omarsakr.bsky.social
Omar Sakr: 
“Yesterday I posted on insta about how the only protein my son has eaten in 8mo of cancer and chemo is popcorn chicken from Romans Deli - no other will do - and they responded by saying he could have free unlimited popcorn chicken (complete with a lil laminated card”)

Pic shows Omar’s son and the laminated card: 
ROMANS DELI
GOLDEN TiCKET
DATE ISSUED: JULY 2026
THiS CARD GRANTS
OUR SUPER-HERO NAYiRR
UNLIMITED SUPPLY OF POPCORN CHiCKEN BiTES
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Omar Sakr @omarsakr.bsky.social · 30/06/2026
Happy birthday to my wife who is not on here but I am sharing this anyway because where I go so too must my love
Birthday Poem
Beloved, as you rose in the hospital next to our wounded sun I was home wiping our baby moon clean of shit & regretting as I always do, any day that begins with us apart.
What can I tell you other than the obvious? Yes, I should have written this on any other morning with time and the kind of deep consideration poets are romanticised for—alas, here we are, breaking our hands and backs to raise heavenly bodies. I'm walking past clucking chickens in a mist
-shrouded street, cool and lovely, with tired lines shuffling along beside me, the pram, the freshly dressed moon.
I wonder what the breakfast tray holds for you, and hope it's a boiled egg and crusty hashbrown, the best of the lot.
We've already texted each other how we survived the night but I still can't wait for you to come home and repeat it.
The park is ahead of me and through the mist (or is it a fog?) I can see the grass. People are always saying we should touch grass, and no one ever says, but what about the pesticides?
They must not have sensitive skin, like us. I know they mean it as a way to reconnect with the world, what's real. Fuck the grass. All I need to do is touch you.
@omarsakrpoet
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Critter (Comms Open) 🦝🌳☀️ @critterskitters.bsky.social · 27/06/2026
It would be really significant for this family to see movement in their campaign. If you have money, please spare some to Iman and her family ❤️ If you don’t, help keep them visible, please speak about them. Read Imans words here, I have to make them my own for posting.
A screenshot of a message from Iman. It reads;

‘My childs and I are living through unbearably harsh days in Gaza We are struggling to survive and clinging to hope🙏👇🏼

My child and I have lost everything our home, our safety, and our stability All that remains for us is hope in God and then in your compassionate hearts😭

eman’
(Campaign link above)
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Critter (Comms Open) 🦝🌳☀️ @critterskitters.bsky.social · 27/06/2026
🚨Iman’s been stalled for 5 days🚨 Iman asks for your compassion; she and her children are struggling to survive after losing everything in the war, starving in harsh conditions. Her baby Nawal went to the hospital this week with high fever. Donate tinyurl.com/42c7ksed Give what you can, even a share
A photo of Iman with her boys, Zakaria and Elias, seated on a mat on the ground. The boys lean into their mother, tucked under each arm, while they look towards the camera with solemn faces. They look visibly thin and suffering from the effects of starvation, under eyes dark.A photo of Zakaria and Elias lying on the floor of their tent, made up of mats on the ground, exhausted. We can only see one boys face, and he is exhausted, looking down with a tired expression.
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