#arabic dark academia

[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}

[hjin922147]

[strokeofserenity]

[letsbelonelytogetherr]

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

[astereaus]

Garous Abdolmalekain, Lean Against This Late Hour

[existingillusion]

[lunamonchtuna]

tr: how do we tell the sea that we are drowning on land?

[fromdarzaitoleeza]

[letterstoyourlove]

This claim, shared widely, reworded, and filtered into the media, is false.

Mahmoud Darwish did not date a Mossad agent. (Rita was not a Mossad spy) He did, however, in the 1960s, date a Jewish woman named Tamar Ben-Ami. The name Rita, which is often cited in these posts, is the pseudonym Darwish used to refer to her in his poetry. He was 22 and she was 16 ½. Ben-Ami was a member of the youth movement The Young Communist League of Israel.

Quickly, Darwish and Ben-Ami developed strong feelings for each other and, while they wrote and saw each other often, neither was eager to publicize their union. “I kept our relationship a secret. I didn’t open it up. I think it was because of Communism, because he was an Arab, I was a Jew,” said Ben-Ami.

In 1967, after the 6-day war, Ben-Ami joined the Israeli Navy as part of the naval band. Upon discovering this, Darwish wrote her the following:

“Tamari, this week I thought of you often. My thoughts made me feel bad. I could see only the criminal in you. I was forced to forget the sweet, beautiful aspects. Do those aspects exist? I hope they do.”

Darvish also wrote-

“I love you despite the nose of my tribe, my city, and the chains of customs. But I’m afraid if I sell everyone, you will sell me, and I’ll return with disappointments.”

A heartbroken Darwish then wrote –

“I felt like my homeland was occupied again.”

After their relationship was over, Darwish continued authoring poems revolving around this failed relationship, as he wrote,

“All roads lead to you, even those I took to forget you.”

He also wrote:

“Maybe it wasn’t important to you, Rita, but it was my heart!”

For her, he also wrote his famous poem, “Rita and the Rifle.”

Finally, he also wrote:

[psykopaths]

[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}

[maihonhassan]

Arabic saying that got me in tears;

“هناك قلوب لن تكرهك مهما أوجعتها "

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

[strokeofserenity]

“Killing the flowers will not delay spring.”

(Al-Yarmouk Palestinian refugee camp in Damascus, Syria)

LITTLE PALESTINE, DIARY OF A SIEGE (2021) DIR. ABDALLAH AL-KHATIB

[letsbelonelytogetherr]

”وهل تبكي على ما فات؟ أقسم لك لو كان فيه خير لبقي“

— And do you cry over that which has passed? I swear to you, if there was any good in it, it would have stayed.

[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."