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'I finished [this book] wanting to read more Palestinian writers, more Palestinian history, more political theory, more poetry, more theology & more of the people whose work Lababidi brought into conversation' www.goodreads.com/book/show/25... @newvillagepress.bsky.social #booksky #Gaza #Palestine

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Yahia Lababidi @ysl.bsky.social · 4h

Fantastic to feel how my poem grows while I myself shrink. It grows, it takes my place. It pushes me aside. It throws me out of the nest. The poem is ready. —Tomas Tranströmer, “Morning Birds”

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Your daily life is your temple and your religion. When you enter into it take with you your all. —Kahlil Gibran

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'Prayer is not an old woman’s idle amusement. Properly understood and applied, it is the most potent instrument of action.' —Mahatma Gandhi

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"Poems that take a thousand years to die" — Nabokov

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In the midst of chaos, try to remember what is Indestructible.

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Writer: how books read each other. — James Richardson

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Yahia Lababidi @ysl.bsky.social · 6h

"When God threw me, a pebble, into this wondrous lake, I disturbed its surface with countless circles. But when I reached the depths, I became very still." —Khalil Gibran

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Yahia Lababidi @ysl.bsky.social · 7h

"A thing, until it is everything, is noise, and once it is everything, is silence." — Antonio Porchia

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Yahia Lababidi @ysl.bsky.social · 8h

“To love purely is to consent to distance.” —Simone Weil, Gravity and Grace

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Yahia Lababidi @ysl.bsky.social · 06/10/2026

Grateful for new ★★★★★ @netgalley.bsky.social review of #IfYouCannotSayGENOCIDE: “There’s no easy distance between reader and what’s being described, which is exactly what makes the collection hit so hard. Raw, honest, and emotionally heavy, but also beautifully written." #booksky #Gaza #Palestine

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Yahia Lababidi @ysl.bsky.social · 10h

“Every person starts his day as a vendor of his soul, either freeing it or causing its ruin.” —Hadith

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+972 Magazine @972mag.com · 23/09/2026

A restored history of Jewish anti-Zionism — and the loss it cannot repair Benjamin Moser's new book recovers a tradition of dissenters who paid a price for opposing Palestinian dispossession, even as they could not prevent it. By Yahia Lababidi www.972mag.com/jewish-anti-...

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A restored history of Jewish anti-Zionism — and the loss it cannot repair

Benjamin Moser's new book recovers a tradition of dissenters who paid a price for opposing Palestinian dispossession, even as they could not prevent it.

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Yahia Lababidi @ysl.bsky.social · 21h

Antidote to (bad) news:

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Yahia Lababidi @ysl.bsky.social · 07/10/2026

We got ready and showed our home. The visitor thought: you live well. The slum must be inside you. —Tomas Tranströmer

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Yahia Lababidi @ysl.bsky.social · 07/10/2026

Remembrance (dhikr) is the door to mystical unveiling (kashf). — Imam Al Ghazali

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Yahia Lababidi @ysl.bsky.social · 07/10/2026

An apocalyptic worldview is a veiled death wish.

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Yahia Lababidi @ysl.bsky.social · 07/10/2026

We suffer from a repression of the sublime. — Roberto Assagioli

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Richard Blanco @poetrichardblanco.bsky.social · 07/10/2026

Proud of my friend, and a fierce advocate for the goodness of our shared humanity. Congratulations on this stellar review, Yahia! I’m not surprised—there’s so much more to come.

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Yahia Lababidi @ysl.bsky.social · 07/10/2026

Blessings, dear friend. Book was meant to be released Oct 6, but has been pushed back to Oct 27th. Another piece of encouraging news: The New Arab has included it among '10 essential books on Gaza and Israel's Genocide' alongside heroes of mine. May truth and poetry of spirit prevail!

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Yahia Lababidi @ysl.bsky.social · 07/10/2026

“If we have no peace, it is because we have forgotten that we belong to each other.” — Mother Teresa (Art: Anton Smit)

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Yahia Lababidi @ysl.bsky.social · 07/10/2026

@thenewarab.bsky.social has named #IfYouCannotSayGenocide one of “10 essential books to read on #Gaza and #Israel ’s genocide.” And Mariam Hoblos writes: “I expected confirmation, not revelation… I was wrong.” #booksky @newvillagepress.bsky.social mariamhoblos.substack.com/p/the-cost-o...

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P.E. PRIDEAUX 🇨🇦 @peprideaux.bsky.social · 07/10/2026

A very happy publication day to @ysl.bsky.social! 💚🙏 I was privileged enough to receive an ARC of this most important work, "If You Can't Say GENOCIDE." Told from a place of astounding compassion and in gorgeously poetic prose, it is not an easy read; but a necessary one. LONGER REVIEW TO COME.

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Yahia Lababidi @ysl.bsky.social · 07/10/2026

You are too kind, my friend, and I’m grateful my words speak to your heart 😇 Pub date pushed to Oct 27.

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Yahia Lababidi @ysl.bsky.social · 06/10/2026

“Though this book is necessarily about Jews, it exists only because of Palestinians.” Benjamin Moser on recovering the Jewish history of anti-Zionism and placing “the real victims of Zionism, the Palestinian people, at the heart of all they do.” jewishvoiceforliberation.org.uk/article/anti...

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Anti-Zionism has an important Jewish history - Jewish Voice for Liberation

The history of Jewish opposition to Zionism is a long one that continued even after the horrors of the Nazi Holocaust.

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Yahia Lababidi @ysl.bsky.social · 06/10/2026

“The only reliable form of time travel is living.” — George Murray

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Yahia Lababidi @ysl.bsky.social · 06/10/2026

“because poets refuse to die, and carry hope on their backs, and go from door to door, like bees do from flower to flower...” —Etel Adnan

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Yahia Lababidi @ysl.bsky.social · 05/10/2026

Acquire the Spirit of peace, and thousands around you will be saved.” — Saint Seraphim of Sarov

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Yahia Lababidi @ysl.bsky.social · 05/10/2026

"The greatest victory over cynicism is hope. Let your heart be as soft and supple as a peach—easily bruised at its sweetest." — Sharon Dolin, poet, aphorist, translator

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Martin Cohen @docmartincohen.bsky.social · 04/10/2026

We're making plans already here in Hastings though! www.facebook.com/events/10994...

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Yahia Lababidi @ysl.bsky.social · 04/10/2026

"The people fancy they hate poetry, and they are all poets and mystics." —Emerson

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Anne Carlet Arnera @annecarletarnera.bsky.social · 02/10/2026

I love the way that, when already you know your own Book, the same ideas told with the words of other faiths will reach you sometimes much deeper.

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Yahia Lababidi @ysl.bsky.social · 04/10/2026

Amen. Truth agrees with itself across time & traditions 🙏🏼✨

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Yahia Lababidi @ysl.bsky.social · 04/10/2026

No rush, my friend. When it happens will be right time ✌🏼

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Yahia Lababidi @ysl.bsky.social · 02/10/2026

"It was of the essence of the trial that you shouldn't understand it at the time. It had to seem unmeaning to have meaning." — Robert Frost, God's Speech to Job, A Masque of Reason

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Yahia Lababidi @ysl.bsky.social · 01/10/2026

"You open your windows to good air blowing in from who knows where, which you gulp and deeply inhale as if you have a death sentence. You have. All your life, it seems, you've been appealing it." —Stephen Dunn

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Yahia Lababidi @ysl.bsky.social · 01/10/2026

“We are here to awaken from our illusion of separateness.” — Thich Nhat Hanh

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Yahia Lababidi @ysl.bsky.social · 01/10/2026

‘Whoever rejects evil and has faith in God has grasped the most trustworthy, unfailing handhold.’ —Quran

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Yahia Lababidi @ysl.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

The Lord shall cover thee with his feathers. Ps. 91:4, kjv

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Martin Cohen @docmartincohen.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

The book is out! Thanks to everyone for their help! @ @ysl.bsky.social @hastingspsc.bsky.social @jvp.bsky.social

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Yahia Lababidi @ysl.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

Congrats, Martin 👏 May it reach the people who need to hear it, open their eyes and soften hearts. I look forward to my copy 😇

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Yahia Lababidi @ysl.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

"O ye who believe! Endure, outdo all others in endurance, be ready, and observe your duty to Allah, in order that ye may succeed." —Aal-i-Imraan 3:200 Quran apps.apple.com/app/id144325...

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