#fatima farheen mirza

[lonesomedreamereccentriclover]

Happy Birthday Riz Ahmed!

[bossymarmalade]

"I’m a little more than halfway through Omar El Akkad’s powerful force of a book, ONE DAY, EVERYONE WILL HAVE ALWAYS BEEN AGAINST THIS. I want everyone to read this book. I’m absorbing it slowly and carefully, feeling full of gratitude at Omar’s ability to finally put to words the rage, grief, disbelief, helplessness and heartbreak of witnessing the genocide in Gaza, as well as the complete loss of faith in the West for its failures, its blatant hypocrisy, its complicity. It’s an important book, a necessary one. And it’s brilliantly written. If you can, please support it and spread the word."

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[crazyrichxplainr]

Riz Ahmed with Fatima Farheen Mirza at the 2024 Oscars celebrations

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[stardestroyerss]

Happy Birthday Riz!

[tzzdreamzone]

❤️‍🩹-A place for us by Fatima Farheen Mirza

[saraminia]

Riz Ahmed via Instagram (June 21, 2023)

[odinsblog]

Dear President Biden,

We come together as artists and advocates, but most importantly as human beings witnessing the devastating loss of lives and unfolding horrors in Israel and Palestine.

We ask that, as President of the United States, you call for an immediate de-escalation and ceasefire in Gaza and Israel before another life is lost. More than 5,000 people have been killed in the last week and a half – a number any person of conscience knows is catastrophic. We believe all life is sacred, no matter faith or ethnicity and we condemn the killing of Palestinian and Israeli civilians.

We urge your administration, and all world leaders, to honor all of the lives in the Holy Land and call for and facilitate a ceasefire without delay – an end to the bombing of Gaza, and the safe release of hostages. Half of Gaza’s two million residents are children, and more than two thirds are refugees and their descendants being forced to flee their homes. Humanitarian aid must be allowed to reach them.

We believe that the United States can play a vital diplomatic role in ending the suffering and we are adding our voices to those from the US Congress, UNICEF, Doctors without Borders, The International Committee of The Red Cross, and so many others. Saving lives is a moral imperative. To echo UNICEF, “Compassion — and international law — must prevail.”

As of this writing more than 6,000 bombs have been dropped on Gaza in the last 12 days — resulting in one child being killed every 15 minutes.

“Children and families in Gaza have practically run out of food, water, electricity, medicine and safe access to hospitals, following days of air strikes and cuts to all supply routes. Gaza’s sole power plant ran out of fuel Wednesday afternoon, shutting down electricity, water and wastewater treatment. Most residents can no longer get drinking water from service providers or household water through pipelines…. The humanitarian situation has reached lethal lows, and yet all reports point to further attacks. Compassion — and international law — must prevail.” – UNICEF spokesperson, James Elder

Beyond our pain and mourning for all of the people there and their loved ones around the world we are motivated by an unbending will to stand for our common humanity. We stand for freedom, justice, dignity and peace for all people – and a deep desire to stop more bloodshed.

We refuse to tell future generations the story of our silence, that we stood by and did nothing. As Emergency Relief Chief Martin Griffiths told UN News, “History is watching.”

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Remember… each year the Turner Prize jury shortlist four artists for an outstanding exhibition or other presentation… The prize was first awarded in 1984. It was founded by a group called the Patrons of New Art under the directorship of Alan Bowness. They formed to encourage wider interest in contemporary art and assist Tate in acquiring new works. They felt that Britain should have its own award for visual arts, an equivalent to the Booker Prize.

Pio Abad’s art explores cultural loss and colonial histories, often reflecting on his upbringing in the Philippines. Featuring drawings, etchings and sculptures that depict and transform artifacts from British museums, Abad sheds light on their overlooked histories and connects them to our lives today. He was nominated for his solo exhibition To Those Sitting in Darkness at the Ashmolean Museum, Oxford. — Tate Britain

[seeingivy]

hi!! you’re such a brilliant writer and i was wondering if you enjoyed reading as well and if so what are some of your book recs? <333

pulled up the goodreads for this one:

my favorite book of all time is a place for us by fatima farheen mirza! refuse to elaborate, but such a think piece that left me with so much to think about regarding religion/family/love/ relationships UGH

everything i never told you by celeste ng left me sobbing for days. i've never felt so hurt by a book this is NOT for the weak.

my favorite emily henry book is beach read. oh augustus everett how I love you

someone who will love you in all of your damaged glory by raphael bob-waksberg!!! it's a collection of short stories written by the creator of bojack horseman. such an interesting way of storytelling idk I remember I read it at a really low point at my life and there was a lot in there that spoke to me

childhood favorite of course is percy jackson series + heroes of olympus. leo valdez save me

that's everything off of the top of my head! thank you for the fun question 💌

[wordsthat-speak]

"Afsoos was the word in Urdu. There was no equivalent in English. It was a specific kind of regret—not wishing he had acted differently, but a helpless sadness at the situation as it was, a sense that it could not have been another way."

A Place for Us (Fatima Farheen Mirza)

[eeverlark]

TOP 9 BOOKS

tagged : @hmsharmony ty jennifer this was SOOO hard oh my god like. genuinely agonized me for days to think about what to choose but it was SOOO fun tho <3 tagging : @rosesau | @evcndiaz | @pendrgcn | @gayarthur | @the-tenth-arcanum | @oretsev | @wherepoetsdie | @bellamyblakru | @ryekat & anyone else who wants to do it !!! rules : list your top 9 books obviously. i cheated a little and put series as as one option because that's just who i am as a person. most of these i chose at random from my 5 star reads from the past few years btw

1. percy jackson and the olympians (series) by rick riordan

i was never a big reader in elementary school—or at least not to the extent that my classmates had been. my sixth grade english class required us to bring a personal book from home for silent reading and i stole my brother's spine-cracked copies of pjo and brought them to class. i finished the whole series in less than a school week (i had to scramble to the library to pick up another series because the single novel should have lasted me at least three weeks). pjo literally kickstarted my love for reading as a hobby and i truly don't know how to state the importance it had on my little ten-year-old brain fr

2. on earth we're briefly gorgeous by ocean vuong

i have never read a book more beautiful in prose and so uncommonly human than this. there's just something so incredibly heartbreaking knowing this whole book is the narrator's letter to his mother who can't read! like what the fuck

3. alone with you in the ether by olivie blake

this came as a surprise to Me when i first read it. i meandered through the first quarter, loving the writing style but feeling disconnected from the characters until the Church Hand Scene™ and it was hook, line, and sinker at that point (i have since come to love the disconnectedness in subsequent rereads, knowing that the feeling was the Point). i have read this book four (4) times since i read it first last year. LAST YEAR!!! olivie has like... fundamentally altered my brain chemistry or something because i feel like everything i have written since having read this book has been somewhat influenced by it.

4. much ado about nothing by william shakespeare

what can i say! this is theeeeeee romcom ever. i have watched so many adaptations of this play, read it countless of times and can recite some iconic lines, and still the banter between benedick and beatrice is sooo elite. cannot be topped!!

5. a place for us by fatima farheen mirza

fun fact: seed rec'd this book to me and has been reccing it to anybody who would listen. the prose is so lush and melancholic. it's one of those books where nothing Really happens, but you feel Every Emotion Under The Sun and you're just like. altered by reading it

6. the song of achilles by madeline miller

obviously.... OBVIOUSLYYYYYYY this had to go here. if i had two nickels for every greek myth retelling i read during school that fundamentally changed me etc etc u get it. i read this as a junior in high school when we, yet again, had to bring a personal book to read durin class. i think at that point of my life, i've never read something that tragic yet so beautiful at the same time and now i am always looking at the beautiful and tragic in media. so! there u go! brain cells rewired and whatnot!

7. the grisha trilogy by leigh bardugo

this is funny because i . technically did not rate any of these books 5 stars i'm sobbing. but like, considering the fact that my url is what it is and the way i always have them in the back of my mind, it's no wonder that i put them here. i have such an odd attachment to these books and these characters. i had copies of these books since their release but didn't touch them until ... before the sab tv release which is so fucking funny. like i don't know what i would be like if i read this as a t(w)een. i would've been so fucking insufferable ngl

8. when my brother was an aztec by natalie diaz

i actually read this for an assignment and had to write a report on it and i had SO much fun doing it. diaz plays a lot with hunger and her imagery is literally unmatched. i think about the way she contructs sentences and am filled with such envy. my beginning sentence for my paper was a nod to her style (though i failed miserably). it was: "in a paradoxical sleight of hand, hunger feeds in natalie diaz's debut." she is just. so fucking good at words i need to CHOMP on it

9. sharp objects by gillian flynn

you know the thing where you see a really popular author for a really long time and they have their work adapted to the screen and it's so good but you still haven't read their actual writing? yeah, that was me with gillian flynn (specifically about gone girl). i read gone girl, i read sharp objects, i read her short story the grownup, i'm currently reading the last novel of hers that i haven't read, dark places, and flynn is just so... incredibly good at constructing harrowing stories. it's no wonder why all three of her novels got adapted to the screen! her prose is so grounded. vivid. there's this ease to her writing that, whenever i concurrently read another novel, i always find the other piece to be lacking. i slink back to flynn's prose and immerse myself in her awful, human worlds.

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4/4/23-✨

[meyhew]

yo who wants to read my fav novel and bond

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[jeanmoreaux]

*✧ — november & december 2023 wrap up

hi hi. here are the things i read in november and december. i'll post my favourites of the year later, but as a teaser i can already tell you that the favourite off of this list will be on it!! given that i was very much in the trenches with my thesis and my finals i still managed to get a good amount of reading in—to be fair though half of this list is stuff i read in the last two weeks of december so. you know. also, as you might have realised, lots of rereading going on. for my mental health. it was A Time. grateful it's over. on to bigger and brighter things <3

2023 goal: 201/100 books

as alway, feel free to drop book recs, questions, or opinions in my inbox; i am always happy to talk to you about books!

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The Catcher in the Rye by J.D. Salinger | 5★ | review

As Long as the Lemon Trees Grow by Zoulfa Katouh | 5★

The Hurricane Wars by Thea Guanzon | dnf'd at 55% | 1★ | review

The Late Americans by Brandon Taylor | 3.5★

Sword Catcher by Cassandra Clare | 3.5★ | review

Rouge by Mona Awad | 3.75★

Earthlings by Sayaka Murata | 3★

Paris: The Memoir by Paris Hilton | 3.5★

* A Place for Us by Fatima Farheen Mirza | 5★ | review

Bright Young Women by Jessica Knoll | 3.75★

Stung with Love: Poems and Fragments of Sappho by Sappho (transl. Aaron Poochigian) | 4★

Heartstopper: Volume Five by Alice Oseman | 4.5★

Lolita by Vladimir Nabokov | no rating

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rereads

The Foxhole Court by Nora Sakavic | 5★ | review

The Raven King by Nora Sakavic | 5★ | review

The King’s Men by Nora Sakavic | 5★ | review

The Hunger Games by Suzanne Collins | 5★ | review

Catching Fire by Suzanne Collins | 5★ | review

Mockingjay by Suzanne Collins | 5★ | review

The Dream Thieves by Maggie Stiefvater | 5★

The Song of Achilles by Madeline Miller | 5★

The Ballad of Songbirds and Snakes by Suzanne Collins | 5★ | review

Blue Lily, Lily Blue by Maggie Stiefvater | 5★

The Raven King by Maggie Stiefvater | 5★