#africa-middle-east all

[ms-hells-bells]

watching female muslim athletes competing in black wrist to ankle and head coverings in 30C (86F) high humidity french heat when even athletes wearing barely anything have been passing out and throwing up :(

[mysharona1987]

This is awful. Just flat out evil.

[entropyvoid]

Golden Hour (+ lineart below cut)

I took a picture of the lines for once and did some basic crappy photo editing on my phone, so you could probably print this out and use it as a coloring page or something if you so wish lol. Do with it what you will.

[nuroful]

SUDAN— WHERE TO DONATE (OCT. 2024):

•**Al-Abbasiya Community Kitchen: provides food for 250 families, very low on funds

•Saving Al-Geneina: provides aid to community kitchens in Sudan+ refugee camps in Western Chad (hard hit by famine) 

•HRRDS: food aid, disability advocacy, and community initiatives in the Nuba Mountains (hard hit by famine)

•Sudanese American Physicians Association: medical care/vaccinations, rebuilding healthcare infrastructure, food aid; cooperates on food/health initiatives w/ some of the above mentioned orgs

+@/bsonblast on Instagram and Twitter for more news, here’s her linktree with more individual and community fundraisers

[totallynotcensorship]

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the hearing of south africa's genocides case against israel in the ICJ will be held on Thursday the 11th and Friday the 12th this month. you can tune in on UN web TV

DON'T STOP TALKING ABOUT PALESTINE. THIS IS REACHING IT'S END SOON

[troythecatfish]

[loveisinthebat]

Lovable Gremlin

[some-stars]

sure do love reading posts about how zionism is a special, different kind of colonization that makes it actually fine and okay :)

like there were a LOT of antizionist jews in the early 20th century. there are a lot of us now. and it’s not because we just don’t Understand the Complexities of the israeli political situation. it’s because all forms of zionism, from their inception and to this day, have all always been morally wrong. israel was founded with a massive act of ethnic cleansing and murder because there is no other possible way to move large amounts of people into a place where other people already live that ensures the people arriving have all the political power. there was never a Good israel and there was never a Good zionism. it was rotten from its inception and it cannot be fixed or repaired or cleansed of the blood it demands.

you can dress up your explanations in lots of long paragraphs but the actual definition of all zionism is simply “we get to force everyone who was already living in this place to leave or be subservient to us or simply be killed.” there is nothing more or else to it, and there never has been, in any place or time.

[is-the-owl-video-cute]

Is North Korea actually bad

It is not what you have been told it is. There are many bad things about the government of North Korea, there are many bad things about those running it, but it is not what you have been told it is.

[kelluinox]

Listening to westerners is becoming increasingly like listening to vatniks and it's frightening and depressing

[caitlinjohns77]

[nationsoftheworldtournament]

interact with this post in some way for me to randomly* assign you a country, territory, autonomous zone, or other region to research and follow current events for in 2024

Some clarifications before we get started

I'm using a random list generator to come up with these assignments so micronations won't be included

Everyone SHOULD be learning what they can about the genocide being inflicted against Palestinians and the Israel vs Palestine conflict more broadly, so for that reason I want everyone to treat Palestine as another country to learn more about in addition to the one I assign

interacting with this post in any way will be treated as an invitation to given you an assignment, this includes interacting exclusively to tell me NOT to do so

There's no set deadlines for turning anything in; if you wanna send new findings each week you're welcome to do that but you can also submit them monthly or even compile them to release at the end of 2024

Multiple interactions via the same blog won't lead to multiple assignments unless you explicitly ask for more

While I'm not going to explicitly require or forbid you to use specific sources I'd encourage you to look at sources both from within your assigned nation as well as from those outside of it, and in general be aware of fact checking and whatnot

*and some clarification: this won't be entirely at random because I'm going to generally try to avoid assigning anybody their own country...but like if you don't have it in your bio I'm not gonna ask what it is I'll just not worry about it when giving you your assignment

[bsaka7]

scrolling through job postings like yeah maybe history and religious studies was kind of a fuckass thing to get a degree in

[pickapea]

my absolutely biggest online pet peeve is US centric people projecting their rich sorority girl bully stereotype of nurses onto everyone else, as if nurses aren't working class and mostly immigrants of colour everywhere else. and when did it become cool to hate on underpaid and exploited workers anyway

[diss-track]

You can not say you're cultured if you've never traveled outside of Canada, US, and Europe. You can not say you're open-minded and open to different cultures if you haven't talked to foreign people outside of Canada, US, and Europe for YEARS of your life.