#arabic dark academia

[cicidarkarts]

Get to know my yumeship :) Decided I wanted to do one of these for my pinned post, featuring my beautiful husband, Idrees 🖤🖤🖤🥰🥰💋💐💐

Sorry, not comfortable sharing ❌ He just means so much to me that it makes me uncomfortable to see him shipped with other people, with very few exceptions

[lone-nyctophile]

[mysterieuxclairdelune]

{Hannah Green, from "Are you still hungry, Mother?"/ Anne Carson/Sam Gordon, "A Mother's Hate"/ Ella Wilson/ Joan Tierney/ Ella Wilson/ Ocean Vuong, from On Earth We're Briefly Gorgeous/ Unknown/ Nayyirah Waheed/ Sharon Olds, “Holding To A Wall, Treading Saltwater”/ John Green, Turtles All the Way Down/ Safia Elhillo, "an inheritance," published in Narrative Northeast/ Annie Ernaux, from I Remain in Darkness/ Poplar Street by Chen Chen/ Unknown/ Tumblr User: @inkskinned/ Elena Poniatowska, from "La Flor de Lis," published c. January 2011/ Kyung-Sook Shin, Please Look After Mom}

[strokeofserenity]

- Arabic Proverb

[hjin922147]

[2dmax]

Haneen, a trilingual Erasmus scholar from Gaza, Palestine.

Haneen and her family are living through genocide, famine, and a brutal winter in displacement. Please, support her any way that you can.

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[abustoslife]

[deeeaahh]

[maihonhassan]

Arabic saying that got me in tears;

“��ناك قلوب لن تكرهك مهما أوجعتها "

"There are hearts that won't ever hate you, no matter how much you hurt them."

[existingillusion]

[literaryvein-reblogs]

A List of "Beautiful" Arabic Words

for your next poem/story

Ahlam - dreams

Bahaar - sea

Fajr - dawn

Ghazal - love poetry

Hadiya - gift

Hikma - wisdom

Ikhlas - sincerity, loyalty

Ishq - passion

Mawadda - affection, loving-kindness

Mawsim - season

Qadr - destiny

Qalb - heart

Qamar - moon

Rihla - journey

Sabr - patience

Sadaqa - friendship

Shawq - longing

Ta’aburnee - "you bury me"; when someone says this, it means he wants to die before the other because he wouldn’t be able to live without this other person

Tarab - ecstasy (in music or poetry)

Thuluth - large, elegant letters with sweeping curves often used in architectural inscriptions and religious texts

Warda - rose

Yashtaq - to miss

Yatamanna - to wish

Yu‘aniqu - to hug

Yu‘jib - to like

Sources: 1 2 3 4 5 ⚜ More: Word Lists ⚜ Writing Resources PDFs

If any of these words make their way into your next poem/story, please tag me, or send me a link. I would love to read them!

[letsbelonelytogetherr]

“Birds born in a cage believe that freedom is a crime”

[mysterieuxclairdelune]

{Sylvia Plath, The Unabridged Journals of Sylvia Plath/ Cynthia D'Aprix Sweeney, The Nest/ Hanya Yanagihara, A Little Life/ Susan Sontag/ Liv Ullmann, from Changing (Knopf, 1976)/ Katherine Mansfield, in a letter to J.M. Murry, dated December 14, 1919, Letters and Journals of Katherine Mansfield (Penguin Classics, 1977)/ Anne Sexton,A Self-Portrait in Letters/ Anne Sexton,A Self-Portrait in Letters/ Richard Siken/ Papi/ Anais Nin/ Ghada Al-Samman/ Mary Oliver, A Thousand Mornings}

[strokeofserenity]

[astereaus]

Garous Abdolmalekain, Lean Against This Late Hour

[pyaariposting]

when Mahmoud Darvish wrote,

"Do not be absent for too long then come and ask about how I am, details die with time and stories change."

and when jaun elia wrote,

"aap ab puchne ko aaye hain, dil meri jaan marr gya kab ka."