#Mourid Barghouti

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Mourid Barghouti, " It's Also Fine"

[jacobwren]

"Politics is the number of coffee cups on the table, the sudden presence of what you have forgotten, the memories you are afraid to look at too closely, though you look anyway. Staying away from politics is also politics. Politics is nothing and it is everything." - Mourid Barghouti

[edwordsmyth]

[benoylesinebirii]

"Temiz bir ölümle ölmek iyidir..."🇵🇸🇵🇸

[houseofpurplestars]

Poem: It's Also Fine by Palestinian poet Mourid Barghouti

It’s also fine to die in our beds

on a clean pillow

and among our friends.

It’s fine to die, once,

our hands crossed on our chests,

empty and pale,

with no scratches, no chains, no banners,

and no petitions.

It’s fine to have a clean death,

with no holes in our shirts,

and no evidence in our ribs.

It’s fine to die

with a white pillow, not the pavement, under our cheek,

with our hands resting in those of our loved ones,

surrounded by desperate doctors and nurses,

with nothing left but a graceful farewell,

paying no attention to history,

leaving this world as it is,

hoping that, someday, someone else

will change it.

[roselungs]

— Mourid Barghouti

seen on @palestinianpoetry on instagram

[ukdamo]

The Three Cypress Trees

Mourid Barghouti - Palestinian poet (in exile)

Transparent and frail, like the slumber of woodcutters, serene, foreshadowing things to come, the morning drizzle does not conceal these three cypresses on the slope. Their details belie their sameness, their radiance confirms it. I said: I wouldn’t dare to keep looking at them, there is a beauty that takes away our daring, there are times when courage fades away. The clouds rolling high above change the form of the cypresses. The birds flying towards other skies change the resonance of the cypresses. The tiled line behind them fixes the greenness of the cypresses and there are trees whose only fruit is greenness. Yesterday, in my sudden cheerfulness, I saw their immortality. Today, in my sudden sorrow, I saw the axe.

[violentdevotion]

I Saw Ramallah - Mourid Barghouti

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Mourid Barghouti, I Saw Ramallah p100

[erikaferestin]

And now for the blatantly obvious truth. I know and you know this is true, that Islam is about subjugating the world, they even say so openly, but we all pretend that it isn’t true because being a good leftist, or what Stalin called a “useful idiot”, requires us all to keep taking one for the team until we get killed off. That’s our role as leftists just like the leftist in Iran were killed off as soon as the theocrats had power. I am safe in my $30M house in Pacific Palisades but not you low-landers, you proletariat! Take heed!

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[roughghosts]

“I do not live in a place. I live in a time.” I Saw Ramallah by Mourid Barghouti

When his name is finally called after waiting for hours, he grabs his small bag and steps on to the Allenby Bridge to cross, for “the first time in thirty summers,” from Jordan to the West Bank: Is this a political moment? Or an emotional one? Or social? A practical moment? A surreal one? A moment of the body? Or of the mind? The wood creaks. What has passed of life is shrouded in a mist that…

[ferraguss]

beyaz bir yastıkta, ellerimiz sevdiklerimizin elleri arasında, çaresiz doktorlar ve hemşireler etrafımızda, arkamızda zarif bir vedadan başka hiçbir şey bırakmadan, tarihe aldırmadan, dünyayı öylece bırakarak, bir gün bir başkası onu değiştirir diye umarak ölmek iyidir.

[selin-n]

💙🥀🕊️

Yataklarımızda ölmek de iyidir__!!😔😓

Temiz bir yastıkta__

Ve arkadaşlarımızın arasında__

Bir kez olsun__

Ellerimiz göğsümüze kapanmış__

Boş ve solgun, çiziksiz, zincirsiz, bantsız

ve belgesiz ölmek iyidir__

Temiz bir ölümle ölmek iyidir__

Gömleğimizde deliksiz__

Ve kaburgalarımızda delilsiz__

Yanağımızın altında kaldırım taşı değil, beyaz bir yastıkla__

Ellerimiz sevdiklerimizin elleri arasında,

Çaresiz doktorlar ve hemşireler etrafımızda__

Arkamızda zarif bir vedadan başka hiçbir şey bırakmadan__

Tarihe aldırmadan__

Dünyayı öylece bırakarak__

Bir gün bir başkası onu değiştirir diye umarak__

Ölmek iyidir__!!

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Filistin'li şair:

Mourid Barghouti, Midnight and Other Poems

Yüce Allah tüm Filistin halkının yardımcısı olsun inşaallah, Aminn🤲🙏😔

[battyaboutbooksreviews]

Read Palestine Week

🇵🇸 Good morning, my beautiful bookish bats. Can I start by saying a huge THANK YOU for sharing my Queer Palestinian Book post? Seriously, thank you so much. Let's keep that momentum by observing Read Palestine Week (Nov 29 - Dec 5). I've compiled a list of books to help you, along with a list of upcoming events and resources you can use this week and beyond.

🇵🇸 A collective of over 350 global publishers and individuals issued a public statement expressing solidarity with the Palestinian people. Publishers for Palestine have organized an international #ReadPalestine week, starting today (International Day of Solidarity with the Palestinian People).

🇵🇸 These publishers have made many resources and e-books available for free (with more to come). A few include award-winning fiction and poetry by Palestinian and Palestinian diaspora authors. You'll also find non-fiction books about Palestinian history, politics, arts, culture, and “books about organizing, resistance, and solidarity for a Free Palestine.” You can visit publishersforpalestine.org to download some of the books they have available.

POETRY 🌙 Things You May Find Hidden in My Ear by Mosab Abu Toha 🌙 Affiliation by Mira Mattar 🌙 Enemy of the Sun by Samih al-Qasim 🌙 I Saw Ramallah by Mourid Barghouti 🌙 A Mountainous Journey by Fadwa Tuqan 🌙 So What by Taha Muhammad Ali 🌙 The Butterfly’s Burden by Mahmoud Darwish 🌙 To All the Yellow Flowers by Raya Tuffaha

FICTION 🌙 Gate of the Sun by Elias Khoury 🌙 Speak, Bird, Speak Again: Palestinian Arab Folktales 🌙 Men in the Sun by Ghassan Kanafani 🌙 Morning in Jenin by Susan Abulhawa 🌙 Gaze Writes Back by Young Writers in Gaze 🌙 Palestine +100:Stories from a Century after the Nakba 🌙 Wild Thorns by Sahar Khalifeh 🌙 Out of Time by Samira Azzam

🌙 The Skin and Its Girl by Sarah Cypher 🌙 You Exist Too Much by Zaina Arafat 🌙 A Woman is No Man by Etaf Rum 🌙 Salt Houses by Hala Alyan 🌙 A Map of Home by Randa Jarrar 🌙 Against the Loveless World by Susan Abulhawa 🌙 Minor Detail by Adania Shibli 🌙 The Woman From Tantoura by Radwa Ashour

NON-FICTION 🌙 Blood Brothers by Elias Chacour 🌙 Strangers in the House: Coming of Age in Occupied Palestine by Raja Shehadeh 🌙 Palestinian Art, 1850–2005 by Kamal Boullata 🌙 Palestine by Joe Sacco 🌙 The Hour of Sunlight: One Palestinian’s Journey from Prisoner to Peacemaker by Sami Al Jundi & Jen Marlowe 🌙 Palestine: A Four Thousand Year History by Nur Masalha 🌙 Justice for Some: Law and the Question of Palestine by Noura Erakat 🌙 The Words of My Father: Love and Pain in Palestine by Yousef Khalil Bashir

🌙 Traditional Palestinian Costume: Origins and Evolution by Hanan Karaman Munayyer 🌙 Mountain against the Sea: Essays on Palestinian Society and Culture by Salim Tamari 🌙 This Is Not a Border: Reportage and Reflection from the Palestine Festival of Literature 🌙 We Could Have Been Friends, My Father and I: A Palestinian Memoir, by Raja Shehadeh 🌙 Les échos de la mémoire. Une enfance palestinienne à Jérusalem, by Issa J. Boullata 🌙 A Party For Thaera: Palestinian Women Write Life In Prison 🌙 Light in Gaza: Writings Born of Fire, 🌙 Voices of the Nakba: A Living History of Palestine

[musfika-hanim]

yataklarımızda ölmek de iyidir

temiz bir yastıkta

ve arkadaşlarımızın arasında.

bir kez olsun

ellerimiz göğsümüze kapanmış,

boş ve solgun,

çiziksiz, zincirsiz, bantsız

ve belgesiz ölmek iyidir.

temiz bir ölümle ölmek iyidir,

gömleğimizde deliksiz

ve kaburgalarımızda delilsiz.

yanağımızın altında kaldırım taşı değil, beyaz bir yastıkla,

ellerimiz sevdiklerimizin elleri arasında,

çaresiz doktorlar ve hemşireler etrafımızda,

arkamızda zarif bir vedadan başka hiçbir şey bırakmadan,

tarihe aldırmadan,

dünyayı öylece bırakarak,

bir gün bir başkası onu değiştirir diye umarak

ölmek iyidir.

Mourid Barghouti

[edwordsmyth]

Mourid Barghouti