beauty

Beauty be not caused, it is
Chase it, and it ceases
Chase it not, and it abides
--Emily Dickinson

Ahmad Yousef strikes back with his dueling sword and toothpicks

Comrade Haidar Eid, Ibn el-Nuseirat, wrote an extremely bold and critical piece about Hamas weeks ago. Ahmad Yousef, mouthpiece of Hamas who compared Obama-mama to Martin Luther King (!!!), responds. How lame.

British Band refuses to entertain apartheid

"Over the past weeks, the pressure exerted on us by people and organizations, some close to us, has shown us that this is not the case. It is difficult to defy a rapidly growing movement with whose aims we agree, even if we are not wholly convinced by their methods." And what alternative methods would you so humbly propose?

Call for Boycott from Norway

"One hundred famous Norwegians, led by the country’s national football coach, have signed a petition demanding a cultural and academic boycott of Israel, accusing its educational institutions of “playing a key role in the occupation” and equating it with apartheid." Famous or not, this is excellent.

Seeing

"Seeing is limited by two borders: Strong light, which blinds, and total darkness..." The Unbearable Lightness of Being, Milan Kundera, 1984 pg:94

Palestinian Village Histories

New book by Rochelle Davis about Palestinian village histories.

Mounir

When Mounir sings... Natalie sinks! hehehe(shukran y'Abou Alaa!)

Israeli checkpoint at Columbia

This is a mock Israeli checkpoint in Columbia. But, I don't think Israeli soldiers say "sorry but you cannot film here", you'd be with lucy in the sky with diamonds perhaps before that happens. And Israeli soldiers don't ask you what you want to do... I found that hillarious actually. But, a nice one really. Well done. I remember once in a talk I gave somewhere about Gaza 2009, a student at the end asked me "can't we build libraries at the checkpoint?" hahahahaha!

marcel khalifeh and firas ibrahim

I was told yesterday by a journalist friend from the Lebanon official radio station owned by the Ministry of Information that Marcel Khalifeh and Firas Ibrahim (who played role of Asmahan's brother in the Syrian series Asmahan he is also producing a film about the life of Mahmoud Darwish) that they made an accident on their way driving to Jordan maybe around a week ago. They're alive and kicking.

say goodbye to appropriated hummus

No more hummus made by child-murderers at DePaul universtiy.

lebanon

yes, the country is on the verge of civil war
و من هو الملك الجديد؟

romanticizing women

I dislike it when a man romanticizes women. We have to realize that it is just another way to objectify them.

struggling against oppression

"the struggle against oppression is a struggle of memory against forgetting" (Vaclav Havel)

conservative buffoonery

"I think most people understand we have to take these steps, we have to get Britain out of the (economic) danger zone." Of course, they re-imburse the banks with government money, they fund arms, army in Afghanistan, but education... no, we have to make the poor pay for the expenses of rich and destroytheir chances of ever getting into college.

ساعات

Ok. I am going to just link to the song.

"The Oslo Virus and the Struggle for Bantustans"

When Haidar Eid writes, Ghazzawiyya, and her one million readers of course, read very carefully.

"Leftist [Falafel] Revolution in Israel"

Comrade Haidar sent me this article with the following comment:
"Fascinating how liberal Zionists can just disappear us (in 48) from existence and discuss socio-economic ideas and ideals that ignore our presence and the nature of the "conflict." Still, quite interesting quotes on fascism!"

The Cape Town Opera insists on entertaining Zionist child-killers

Yes, now they can further embrace their guilt through opera, from whom? From those who used to oppose Apartheid and now promote its daughter regime.

ساعات ساعات

I am stuck on Sabah's song sa'aat sa'aat and can't stop mumbling and singing it to myself. But, really now, when Mohammad Mounir sang it, it just got better! I am assuming my one million readers know whom Mounir is? Please get to know him NOW. Check previous posts.
و ثقيلة خطوة الزمن ثقيلة دقة الساعات.. ساعات ساعات

Life after PhD

There are many articles and talks and books and papers and conferences and roundtables and programmes for life after PhD. But, is there anything on Life DURING PhD? I think not, because there is no life during PhD!!

European Student Union complicit with apartheid

Our (PSCABI) letter against the ESU's Jerusalem conference: "Just as students throughout the 80s were banning Barclays bank from campuses for their investment in Apartheid, we had hopes of similar solidarity given the unique savagery and imprisonment we Palestinians are subjected to. You failed to remember such times when it wasn’t easy to stand on the right side of history, and take a stand as only student movements can. Instead, you decided to normalize with an Apartheid regime by attending the European Students’ Union meeting in Jerusalem. Moreover, you failed to stand up for those the tour did not show you, those whose voices are strangled, whose hopes are permanently shot down and whose loved ones are still grieving"

BDS in Australia

"Getting activists in Australian cities talking about Israel as an apartheid state is a great achievement. The international BDS movement is only five years old, yet already we have students and trade unionists and people from different walks of life working together."

Ghazzawiyya is a lazy blogger

I know... I have dissapointed my very broad and international fan base,the millions who read this blog.