#a. zakaria

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Zakaria Dau by Edwin Zhang for Wonderland China Magazine December 2023

[firstfullmoon]

Zakaria Mohammed, “Untitled Poem, IV,” trans. Lena Tuffaha

[wqintraining]

Ultimates is the Best Comic on the Market

BONUS:

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[why-i-love-comics]

The Ultimates #3 (2024)

written by Deniz Camp art by Juan Frigeri & Federico Blee

[vasyandii]

question about Krueger and König! can they speak any Arabic and have they bonded with Sami "Zero" Zakaria over their somewhat shared ethnicity?

Hello Hello! Thank you so much for the ask! It makes me really happy to get them and see the people like my headcanons :3 As always, the art is by me!!

I think Darius (König) and Sebastian (Krueger) are on different levels in terms of their language retention due to how they were raised :3 for example;

Darius can understand spoken Arabic since his father made it so their household spoke some the language, however he can't read or write Arabic, and has trouble pronouncing words. He didn't care much for it since it was hard for him to understand once he started going to school :(

Sebastian on the other hand, cannot understand Arabic at all. His mother (Darius' Aunt) made an effort to not speak the language at home, so He started learning when he was way older. Since he has perfect pitch, replicating tone is easy for him (kind of like when you sing songs in a language you dont speak). Writing is from right to left is easy for him too since it says on his dossier that he's ambidextrous. He can "read" and replicate Arabic, but he doesn't understand what the words mean.

I think Darius wouldn't bond with Sami over their shared ethnicity because he's very indifferent about it, but they do respect each other. But Sebastian definitely has bonded to a person similar to Sami; my favorite Jackals operator... *DRUM ROLLS* AZUR!!

Azur, from his voice lines, is shown to be pretty good natured. Sami is more similar to Sebastian on the pretense that they're both a little rowdy :)

So what would end up happening is Sami teaching Sebastian words like "Qadib" or "Kes Ommak" and telling him that it means "How are you"/ "You're welcome" because he thinks it's funny, and Azur trying his ass off to prevent that xD (In my mind those two are similar to the cousins)

I hope my answers make sense, since I tend to ramble; As a Thank you for reading, please have these old doodles of the Cousins from when I originally thought of the headcanon xD

[justinspoliticalcorner]

Marco Margaritoff at HuffPost:

Human Rights Watch co-founder Aryeh Neier, a German-born Jewish man who survived the Holocaust, says he has been “persuaded” in recent months that Israel is “engaged in genocide against Palestinians” and that conflating antisemitism with criticism of Israel is ludicrous. “I thought Israel had a right to retaliate against Hamas, and I thought Israel had a right to try to incapacitate Hamas so that it would never be able to do anything like that again,” Neier told CNN’s Fareed Zakaria about the Israel-Gaza conflict in an extensive interview Sunday. “But I was disturbed by some of the actions of Israel, by the use of very large weapons, 2,000-pound bombs, which are utterly inappropriate in a crowded urban area,” he continued, adding that these bombs “can kill somebody two football fields away.” The decadeslong conflict erupted anew on Oct. 7 when Hamas killed 1,200 Israelis and took around 200 others hostage. Israel’s ongoing bombing has reportedly killed more than 35,000 Palestinians since, most of them women and children, to increasing international outrage.

Neier told Zakaria that “even though Israel went far overboard,” he still wasn’t sure the term “genocide” applied. The 87-year-old human rights icon, who previously led the American Civil Liberties Union, first chronicled his change of mind in the New York Review of Books. “I am now persuaded that Israel is engaged in genocide against Palestinians in Gaza,” he wrote in an essay for next week’s issue of the magazine. “What has changed my mind is its sustained policy of obstructing the movement of humanitarian assistance into the territory.”

Human Rights Watch co-founder and Holocaust survivor Aryeh Neier went on CNN’s Fareed Zakaria GPS Sunday to state this plainly obvious truth: “Israel is engaged in genocide against Palestinians in Gaza.”

This comes in marked contrast to his previous view that Israel were right to retaliate in the immediate aftermath of the October 7th Hamas attack.

From the 05.26.2024 edition of CNN's Fareed Zakaria GPS:

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Fareed Zakaria, one of President Biden’s favourite news commentators, according to Biden himself, and far from an ardent supporter of Palestine, strongly criticizes Biden’s foreign policy regarding the ongoing genocide in Gaza.

[molsno]

White colonizers manufactured similar moral panic in response to the practice of "sati," or as Europeans called it, widow-immolation. (In Sanskrit, "sati" refers to the woman who dies, not the ritual, but because I am primarily referring to European accounts I will use "sati" to mean the ritual.) The rite—which was not strictly a religious practice—involves a Brahmin widow casting herself on her husband's funeral pyre, and it was rare in India even at the time. Large parts of the country did not practice the barbaric ritual at all; in other regions, it was restricted to certain castes. In the seventeeth century, when the British first encountered sati, witch-hunts, trials, and burnings were still being conducted across Europe and in the American colonies. Yet despite the many similarities in the "spectacle" of burning women, and the purportedly moral underpinnings for doing so, white people apparently only recognized violence against women when it was perpetuated by what they saw as primitive "other" cultures.

—Rafia Zakaria, Against White Feminism

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Ok i still have over 200 things in my drafts so how about this

For every note this gets i'll post one thing in my drafts

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Zakaria Dau by Edwin Zhang for Wonderland China Magazine December 2023

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August 15 by Zakaria Mohammed (tr. Lena Khalaf Tuffaha)

[mordere-diem]

"It is not poetry’s job to wipe away tears. Poetry should dig a trench where they can overflow and drown the universe."

Zakaria Mohammed, Untitled from A Date For the Crow

[why-i-love-comics]

The Ultimates #3 (2024)

written by Deniz Camp art by Juan Frigeri & Federico Blee

[wrestlehead]

Galal Zakaria