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The rain begins with a single drop.

- Daring to Drive, Manal Al-Sharif

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Gaza Fundraiser Requests 1/17/2025, Part 1

After three or so months away from Tumblr, I'm back and have a lot of Palestinian fundraisers to boost.

Although a ceasefire between the State of Israel and Hamas has finally been reached, the conditions from the 15-month Israeli occupation's genocide in the Gaza Strip are still unlivable. Food, medicine and basic living essentials are extremely price-gouged and the border crossing to Egypt from Rafah is still closed.

Even with a possible end to their genocide in sight, Palestinians in Gaza still need all the help they can get to rebuild their lives, as well as heal from the horrific physical and psychological violence inflicted upon them.

Fundraisers that are low on donations are marked in red. Those whose donations have slowed down are marked in orange.

Tumblr doesn't like when I make these lists too long, so Part 2 of the requests can be found here.

Vetted Fundraisers

🍉 Samer Aburass (@samerpal) - 149,588/kr450,000 SEK raised on GoFundMe | donation post | #196 on @el-shab-hussein and @nabulsi's fundraiser list

🍉 Lina Abusamra (@linoomk) - 48,978/60,000 EUR raised on GoFundMe | donation post | vetted by association with an accounted vetted by @90-ghost

🍉 Ahmed (@ahmad-ggaza98) - 10,583/70,000 USD raised on GoFundMe | donation post | #329 on GazaVetters

🍉 Ahmed (@ahmed6755) - 5,880/30,000 USD raised on GoFundMe | donation post | vetted by association with another account vetted by @gaza-evacuation-funds

🍉 Ahmed Al-Anqar (@zinaanqar) - 85,854/100,000 EUR raised on GoFundMe | donation post | #264 on @el-shab-hussein and @nabulsi's fundraiser list

🍉 Mohammed Al-Anqar (@famousturtlebanana) - 76,140/90,000 EUR raised on GoFundMe | donation post | #174 on @el-shab-hussein and @nabulsi's fundraiser list

🍉 Nour Al-Anqar (@noor0) - 25,023/40,000 EUR raised on GoFundMe | donation post | vetted by @90-ghost

🍉 Manal Al-Banna (@gazamanal3) - 17,802/kr1,000,000 SEK raised on GoFundMe | donation post | #438 on GazaVetters

🍉 Ayman Al-Habil (@malak5ayman) - 17,094/60,000 EUR raised on GoFundMe | donation post | vetted by @90-ghost

🍉 Sameer Al-Khaldi (@sameer-gaza1) - 7,245/50,000 USD raised on GoFundMe | donation post | vetted by association with one account vetted by @90-ghost

🍉 Momen Al-Madhoun (@lenaps, @amerfamily) - 11,164/50,000 EUR raised on GoFundMe | donation post | #291 on GazaVetters

🍉 Hani Al-Sharif (@razansharif1) - 5,574/50,000 USD raised on GoFundMe | donation post | #228 on @el-shab-hussein and @nabulsi's fundraiser list, #159 on GazaVetters

🍉 Nevin Al-Sir (@nevenfam) - 3,624/50,000 EUR raised on GoFundMe | donation post | #314 on @el-shab-hussein and @nabulsi's fundraiser list

🍉 Amal (@familygazaamal1) - 10,903/30,000 USD raised on GoFundMe | donation post | #55 on GazaVetters

🍉 Asmaa (@asmaa-needs) - 6,871/20,000 raised on GoFundMe | donation post | vetted by association with two other accounts

🍉 Tareq Ayyad (@tareqayad1) - 20,095/92,900 USD raised on GoFundMe | donation post | #160 on GazaVetters, #599 on Butterfly Effect Project

🍉 Heba Al-Anqar (@aya-baker) - raised on GoFundMe | donation post | vetted by @90-ghost

🍉 Mosab Elderawi (@nfamily2) - 18,820/20,000 EUR raised on GoFundMe | donation post | #309 on GazaVetters

New/Not Yet Vetted Fundraisers

🍉 Mohammed Abuqaoud (@moqaoud) - GFM deleted, BuyMeACoffee link here

🍉 Aya Al-Majdoub (@aiamaher2) - 5,556/55,000 EUR raised om GoFundMe | donation post | donation protected

🍉 Fouad (@fouad4) - 2,690/35,000 EUR raised on GoFundMe | donation post | donation protected

🍉 Jamal Fouad (@jamalhlles) - 3,453/50,000 GBP raised on GoFundMe | donation post | donation protected

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New inbox fundraisers list

As of Dec 26 2024

Read More link due to length - also CW for blood and injuries as some* of these Tumblr posts (links included on each name) contain graphic images. *Those specific posts will be indicated with an *.

Thanks for your time and please share.

Ali Hilles - GoFundMe

Sahar Shehab - GoFundMe, PayPal

Ahmed Moneer - GoFundMe

Mohammed Ayyad - GoFundMe

Mahmoud Khalaf - GoFundMe

Etaf family - GoFundMe

*Amal Alkfarna - GoFundMe, PayPal

Walaa - GoFundMe

Mohammed & Fouad - GoFundMe

Nareman Mohammed - GoFundMe

Nevin Al-Sir - GoFundMe

*Hiba Khader - GoFundMe

Sharif Alamoudi - GoFundMe

Mohammad Ramzi - GoFundMe

Amani Abu Hussein - GoFundMe

Ferwana family - GoFundMe

Zahra - GoFundMe

*Farah & Waseem - GoFundMe

Ahmad Waleed - GoFundMe

Amal's family - GoFundMe

Mohammed Taysir - GoFundMe

Mosab Derawi - GoFundMe

Yossef Abu Steita - Chuffed

Noura Ayman - GoFundMe

Hamdi Al-Shaltawi - GoFundMe

Omar's family - GoFundMe

Mysolin Bahader - GoFundMe

Ahmed Kullab - GoFundMe

Enas Sammer - GoFundMe

Mahmoud Jehad - GoFundMe

Nadaa Alrai - GoFundMe

Manal - GoFundMe

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Reading list Dec 2024

On Killing: The Psychological Cost of Learning to Kill in War and Society by Dave Grossman. It is required reading at the FBI Academy, the DEA Academy, the US Air Force NCO Academy, and other law enforcement agencies and military schools around the US. The book is based on S.L.A. Marshall's theory that the majority of soldiers in war do not ever fire their weapons due to an innate resistance to killing.

Hadji Murad by Leo Tolstoy. One critic said of the book "[it is] my personal touchstone for the sublime of prose fiction, to me the best story in the world." Written 50 years after its events, the story is about a real-life Avar rebel commander. Tolstoy described Murad as "the leading dare-devil and ‘brave’ of all Chechnya".

The Old Words by kvikindi/@septembriseur A Helmut Zemo & Winter Soldier (MCU) fanfic. Content warnings: discussion of violence, suicide, war crimes including death, child death, sexual assault. The author notes she is clear Zemo did not rape, but looking back, that is ridiculous.

Voices from Chernobyl: The Oral History of a Nuclear Disaster by Svetlana Alexievich, Nobel Laureate, originally published in Russian in 1997 as Chernobyl Prayer, 9 years after the disaster. She interviewed more than 500 eyewitnesses, including firefighters, liquidators (members of the cleanup team), politicians, physicians, physicists, and ordinary citizens over a period of 10 years.

Daughter of the Tigris by Muhsin Al-Ramli. A beautiful urbane woman marries a sheikh so she can travel Iraq searching for the corpse of her father. Sequel to The President's Gardens which was longlisted for the IPAF, known as the "Arabic Booker".

Chasing the Flame: One Man's Fight to Save the World by Samantha Power, Pulitzer Prize winner, a biography of Sergio Vieira de Mello. De Mello worked for the UN for 30 years, and was positioned to be the UN Secretary-General, before his 2003 death in Iraq. A profile in courage and humanity--and an unforgettable meditation on how best to manage the deadly challenges of the twenty-first century. His career involved peace negotiations in post-invasion Lebanon, the repatriation of Cambodian refugees, and the cease-fire talks in Bosnia, among others.

Black Like Me by John Howard Griffin. A reporter in 1959 darkens his skin and travels around the American South to document racism. He later worked with Civil Rights leaders like Dr Martin Luther King Jr.

The Women in Black by Madeleine St John. The author has been shortlisted for the Booker Prize. A 'meringue' of a novel about several Australian women working for a department store in 1959 Sydney, contrasted with some Continental (European) refugees. Has a movie and an upcoming TV series.

Lee Lockwood: Castro's Cuba: An American Journalist's Inside Look At Cuba, 1959-1969 by Saul Landau This volume includes Lockwood’s photographs of Cuba and Castro, many insightful observations, and extensive excerpts from the legendary Lockwood-Castro conversations. Between 1959 and 1969, photojournalist Lee Lockwood documented Cuba and Fidel Castro with unprecedented freedom and access, including a marathon seven-day interview with Castro himself.

Daring to Drive by Manal al-Sharif Memoir of a Saudi woman known for leading the #Women2Drive movement challenging the ban on women driving in Saudi Arabia. Also covers other topics including Saudi prisons, female genital mutilation, author's marriage.

Born a Crime: Stories from a South African Childhood by Trevor Noah #1 “Language, even more than color, defines who you are to people.” #2 “The way my mother always explained it, the traditional man wants a woman to be subservient, but he never falls in love with subservient women. He’s attracted to independent women. “He’s like an exotic bird collector,” she said. “He only wants a woman who is free because his dream is to put her in a cage.”

Little Boy Lost by Marghanita Laski Hilary Wainwright, widower, poet, intellectual, returns after the war to a blasted and impoverished France in order to trace a child lost five years before.

A Place of Greater Safety by Hilary Mantel Described by septembriseur as the book that had the most impact on them. Hilary Mantel won the Booker Prize twice.

Sing and Shout: The Mighty Voice of Paul Robeson by Susan Goldman Rubin Biography of a singer, actor, and activist. What I found interesting was his positive attitude of Europe compared to America regarding their treatment of him as a black person.

[the-rainbow-lesbian]

just because someone says "I don't support hamas" doesn't mean that's completely true. parroting hamas talking points, sharing "news" from hamas journalists (a lot of them celebrated on the oct 7th btw) and sharing the civilian death tolls which can't be verified is still supporting them.

one of these hamas journalists Hind Khoudary reported palestinian peace activists which got them imprisoned. Manal Al-Sharif talks about her experience in Gaza and how biased journalism there is and how she got imprisoned for trying to facilitate a zoom call between palestinians and israelis who want peace. it drives me insane that people believe terrorists have integrity and wouldn't tell lies and actively suppress freedom of press and expression, I don't understand how naive some can be. saying "I don't support what hamas did on oct 7th" is the bare fucking minimum, like congrats you don't think killing civilians and raping women is okay, you get a cookie for being the bestest human being of the year, now stop being susceptible to propaganda.

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The tenth environmental forum at Al-Azhar Al-Sharif University, organized by the Environment Committee - Africa in the Heart for Climate, under the auspices of His Eminence Imam Dr. Ahmed Eltayb and And in the presence of Professor Salama Daoud, President of Al-Azhar University Where the Team Foundation for Humanitarian Action participated with its scientists in the workshops, in which Prof. Dr. Manal Khairy, Prof. Dr. Fawzi Younis, Prof. Dr. Hanim El Sheikh, Prof. Dr. Rania Fouad and Ambassador Mostafa Sherbiny participated. All congratulations to the members of the Environment Committee for their great success, especially thanks to Prof. Dr. Mahmoud Seddik, Vice President of the University and General Supervisor of the Committee and Mrs. Sham Ali, Rapporteur of the Community Service and Environment Committee

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PANDEMIC OP-ED -OPUS III - 1-15-2,022 -PLANET : EARTH.

“How beautiful it is to live in a world with no walls.”

― Manal al-Sharif, Daring to Drive: A Saudi Woman's Awakening -

(Gender equality is not a belief, it is not an idea - it is a key element of the society that will define whether we the humans shall march ahead towards glory and advancement, or sink into the abyss of an existential doom.)

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The covers of Glamour’s Women of the Year issue

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Be yourself without permission. The world will always want you to be someone else. Disappoint it.

Manal Al-Sharif

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Memoirs Written By Women

Just wanted to make a post for my favorite memoirs by women about their different experiences. I highly recommend all of these books to everyone, but especially to women.

Daring to Drive: A Saudi Woman’s Awakening by Manal Al-Sharif (2017)

This memoir intimately describes modern life for women in Saudi Arabia. Al-Sharif was one leader of the movement to gain women the right to drive. It’s deeply disturbing at parts (all of these memoirs are) and describes female genital mutilation. However, it is 100% worth the read and is enlightening to those who are not aware of the lives of women in other countries.

Educated by Tara Westover (2018)

Westover tells the story of her life as a child of survivalist Mormons in rural Idaho. She was forbidden to go to a hospital or a school. The memoir depicts the abuse she faced but also how she went to college and educated herself from nothing. 

In the Dream House by Carmen Maria Machado (2019)

This memoir is wholly unique and unlike anything I’ve ever read. Through a series of narrative tropes and vignettes, Machado describes her experiences in an abusive same-sex relationship. 

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"The rain begins with a single drop."

Manal al-Sharif, human rights activist (b. 25 April 1979)

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How beautiful it is to live in a world with no walls.

Manal al-Sharif, Daring to Drive: A Saudi Woman's Awakening

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For One Saudi Woman, 'Daring To Drive' Was An Act Of Civil Disobedience

Manal al-Sharif's path to activism began simply enough: In 2011, the Saudi woman filmed herself driving a car, then uploaded the video to YouTube. Ordinarily such a video might not get much notice, but because it's not socially acceptable for women to drive in Saudi Arabia, where there is a de facto ban, Sharif's video went viral.

Sharif describes driving as an act of civil disobedience: "For me, driving — or the right to drive — is not only about moving from A to B; it's a way to emancipate women," she says. "It gives them so much liberty. It makes them independent."

Initially arrested for driving, Sharif was released when her story elicited outrage from around the world. She now lives in Sydney, Australia, with her second husband and son.

Though she is no longer in Saudi Arabia, Sharif remains outspoken about women's rights: "When I see something wrong, I speak up," she says of her advocacy of Saudi women. "It should be the norm, not the exception." Her new memoir is Daring to Drive.