#arabic diaspora

[starful-emporium]

mostly just curious bc there isn't an established term where I live, and it's conflated with Islamophobia a lot.

Pls reblog, my non fandom posts rarely get anywhere

[paperpressbooks]

paper press books & assoc. publ. co. at beast crawl literary festival in oakland july 27, 2024

Marhaba means welcome.

As a North African owned and operated press, Paper Press Books is proud to welcome you to a presentation of voices from the Middle East and North Africa (MENA). This marks the first such reading at Beast Crawl Literary Festival.

Colonial legacies continue to cast long shadows, shaping narratives that neglect the richness and complexity of our culture and literary heritage.

We are excited to showcase the talent and diversity of MENA writers. Join us for an evening of discovery and celebrate the power of these voices.

[ace-hell]

Oh this makes me so fucking mad

So SO fucking mad

You mean israelites, hebrews ffs you mean CANAANITES

THERE WEREN'T PALESTINIANS 3,000 YEARS AGO

THERE WERE JEWISH KINGDOMS

If the tatreez originated 3,000 fucking years ago it makes it jewish, israelite. NOT palestinian

This horrendous cultural and historical erasure of a whole ass ethnic group is absolutely sickening

This accepted activity of rewriting and changing jewish history is so fucking disgusting

This is the kinda shit that makes it so hard for me to feel sympathy and accept the modern palestinian identity

ITS NORMAL FOR NEW IDENTITIES TO EMERGE AND BE BORN, BUT ITS NOT OK TO CHANGE HISTORY SO IT'LL LOOK LIKE YOU HAVE AN ANCIENT AND NATIVE IDENTITY!

I Just fucking hope for the sun to blow us all up soon ffs

[idontmindifuforgetme]

[secular-jew]

Arab colonialism generally adheres to the same blueprint of land theft, displacement, and genocidal violence. When Islam plants a mosque somewhere, it believes this is conquered land and it's theirs forever, no matter what Temple or Church it builds on top of.

What sets it apart, however, is that it also attempts to project its own abuses onto its victims.

Rather than acknowledge their glaringly obvious 1400-year uber-colonial history, they will invert perceptions of history and reality in an attempt to self-indigenize.

They then usurp the cultures, stories, and legacies of indigenous peoples for themselves (but only the convenient parts - you'll never see Palestinians claim Judas) and disenfranchise the people they stole it from.

They will furiously deny that their ancestors were, in fact, colonizers who conquered their way on land on which they now occupy. Instead, they will frame themselves as native peoples who simply embraced Arab identity/converted to Islam, while the actual indigenous peoples are framed as nothing more than a pathetic band of rejects and cosplayers whose ancestors either never lived on the land to begin with, or were rightfully cast out (or have been cast out for so long that they have lost all right to return).

I can think of few other colonizers that do this. And because this behavior deviates from what we typically understand as "baseline colonialism", it becomes immeasurably harder to identify and more complex to counter.

[unopenablebox]

i admit that i find it a little bit frustrating how Wildly Astonished other antizionist jews act when i tell them my israeli jewish family have lived in the region since [some unknown length of time before 1800 when there start being records about it]

[hussyknee]

"Not publicized to prevent copycats" is an absolute bullshit excuse in a nation of school shooters btw.

Please, please read this.

The Congolese genocide is one of the biggest mass murders in modern history, counting eight to ten million murder victims and millions of others severely injured.

As for Palestine, but the bombardment is somehow more intense than ever, they killed about 178 people including 52 babies the first day after the ceasefire. Zionists got hold of the photo of one of the babies cradled by his grandfather in his tiny shroud, his face waxy and eyes open and glassy in death, and has been passing it around, along with other similar pics of dead little children, claiming they're "obviously a doll". The open calls for genocide from the Israeli general public are more virulent than ever, and the IOF has arrested and imprisoned more Palestinians in West Bank than they released. The increase in intensity may be due to Blinken having told Netanyahu that "he had weeks, not months" to finish up whatever he wanted to do (genocide isn't good for the holiday spirit of the voting public methinks), and Netanyahu reportedly wants to "thin the population" as much as possible and herd the remaining survivors out through the Egyptian border.

Please take the time to scroll the tags at least every other day and reblog one or two posts. Keeping eyes on the unfolding situation helps keep the pressure on and politicians are clearly nervous now! YOU can't do anything, but you help create a vital domino effect for hundreds of thousands of people who CAN organize. Relevance is survival. Don't let these people have martyred themselves in vain!

[fracktastic]

last day of Arab American Heritage Month

these designs were on my Sitto's baby clothes and now they're on my sweatshirt

Excuse the cat hair - they love tatreez, too

[strawberryflavoredsapphic]

In Search of Self: a Study of Queer Arab Women

In the United States Post Migration by Lexi Haddad

[jerseygirl5000]

Are we really doing this right now

[butchxenomorph]

my granddad was Arab (Palestenian to be more specific) and my dad spent his childhood in Jordan but after he moved to Venezuela he didn’t retain the language and now no one in my dad’s generation or my generation in our family is fluent :((( it’s so sad :( i’ve been trying to teach it to myself and so have a lot of the people in my dads side but it hurts that we have lost that part of our heritage. we have only kept our surname and cuisine… i really hope i’m able to learn it

[idontmindifuforgetme]

One of the most gratifying things about getting older is being secure in both my American and Iraqi identities. Like I used to think that I had to compromise one for the other, or that being half of each would always make me “diluted,” but I’ve never been more comfortable in my Arabness while simultaneously not caring for the western gaze & just making peace with what it means to be Iraqi American. Like I feel so lucky for my Iraqi heritage every day and I know that’s sadly not a feeling all Arabs experience……. But I cannot imagine being anything else and nor would I ever want to be

[secular-jew]

We should not be using their propaganda. Great piece by Daniel Krygier:

""When it comes to PR, Israel and its friends are sadly a few steps behind in countering Pallywood's successful spread of propaganda lies worldwide.

One fundamental problem is that Israel and its friends continue to use established false Pallywood terminology.

Jordan invented the imperialist term "West Bank" in the early 1950s. The historically correct term is Judea and Samaria.

There is no "Palestine" and there are no "Palestinians." Gazans are Egyptians and Arabs in Judea and Samaria are Jordanians or just Arabs.

Jews can't "occupy" ancestral Jewish land. There is an Arab occupation of Jewish land.

Descendants of Arabs who fled the Arab aggression against Israel in 1948 are not more "refugees" than Israeli Jews whose parents and grandparents fled from Europe or the Muslim world.

There are no "refugee camps" in Gaza, Judea and Samaria but towns and neighborhoods that consist of real houses, shops, cars etc that are no different and often better than other third world slums.

"Free Palestine" is not about "liberation" but about the genocidal destruction of Israel and the Jewish people.

Killing armed Hamas terrorists is not "massacre" or "genocide" but legitimate self-defense.

Winning the information war requires eliminating Pallywood's propaganda terms and lies.""

[cute-st]

TW: anti-blackness

[sakhafa]

spanish speaking oomfies what spanish dialect is the equivalent of the Egyptian arabic dialect in your opinion...

[just-rogi]

We had to do a diversity exercise at work today and the (white) proctor asked all the teachers if we knew anyone who felt like they belonged to two groups… except the entire room was female teachers of color it felt so fucking stupid