Yahia Lababidi
@ysl.bsky.social
Author of 🇵🇸 If You Cannot Say Genocide & 15 other books Poetry, aphorisms, and essays on art, faith, and conscience Liberties | Salmagundi | World Literature Today 📚 https://www.newvillagepress.org/ifyoucannotsaygenocide/
Days before US midterms, my new essay for @npquarterly.bsky.social The terrible education of these years: What does Gaza teach Arab & Muslim Americans about who is grieved ? nonprofitquarterly.org/after-we-wer... @ilhanmn.bsky.social @abdulelsayed.bsky.social #Gaza #midterms #news #politics
After we were seen | Nonprofit Quarterly | Civic News. Empowering Nonprofits. Advancing Justice.
I began to wonder how much an election could truly change about American power when those living beneath America’s drones had no vote.
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‘And whoever fears Allah – He will make for him a way out and will provide for him from where he does not expect. And whoever relies upon Allah – then He is sufficient for him. Indeed, Allah will accomplish His purpose. Allah has already set for everything a [decreed] extent.’ - Quran, 65: 2-3
The best author will be he who is ashamed to become a writer. — Friedrich Nietzsche
We can make our minds so like still water that beings gather about us to see their own images, and so live for a moment with a clearer, perhaps even with a fiercer life because of our silence. —Yeats
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US Imperialism and the Language of Erasure in Palestine | Common Dreams
The phrase “US imperialism” may sound antique, but the reality is current. It lives in supply chains, military aid, diplomatic vetoes, and the expectation that our media will avoid language that might...
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More Palestinians killed since the “cease-fire” then Israelis killed on October 7 www.newvillagepress.org/ifyoucannots... #booksky #Gaza #Israel #Palestine think about that…
Attending a church service and these words leapt out at me: ‘Do not mistreat or oppress a foreigner, for you were foreigners in Egypt. Do not take advantage of the widow or the fatherless. If you do and they cry out to me, I will certainly hear their cry.’ — Exodus
“I never have been in despair about the world. Enraged. I have been enraged, but never in despair. I cannot afford despair….. you cannot tell the children there is no hope.” — James Baldwin
With #Halloween around the bend, here’s a reflection of mine on FrancisBacon’s haunted #art — how even horror, seen honestly, can still contain a form of grace. designobserver.com/the-museum-g...
‘The museum-going cannibal:’ On Francis Bacon - DesignObserver
On the heels of this month’s Louvre heist, a poet reflects on his own hellish — and oddly heartening — encounter at a famed museum.
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“All God's creatures are His family; and he or she is the most beloved of God who tries to do most good to God's creatures." —Prophet Muhammad ﷺ
Unanswered prayers are, nevertheless, imperishable. They are merely deposited into some eternal account, accumulating interest.
"...the rainbow bridge that should connect the prose in us with the passion. Without it we are meaningless fragments, half monks, half beasts, unconnected arches that have never joined into a man." —EM Forster
'Good luck and bad luck give birth to each other.' —Chinese mystic Zhuangzi
“No one sings as purely as those who inhabit the deepest hell—what we take to be the song of angels is their song” —Kafka
'The greatest trick of the devil,' he said 'is to convince us he does not exist.' —Baudelaire
“All first-rate poetry is occupied with morality: this is the lesson of Baudelaire.” —T.S. Eliot
"A man without a dream or a vision shall perish" Proverbs 29:18
