#mohamed abdulkarim ali

[gryficowa]

Boycott!

Venezuela is in first place, it turns out that the electricity was sabotaged and it was turned off in many cities…

I mean, electricity blackout, that's what's happening in Venezuela…

Now that I have your attention:

[pasdetrois]

Compiling some Palestinian gofundme organizers who have recently reached out to me. Please consider donating if you have any available funds:

Hani Yasser's family: €5,330 eur / 25,000. (Vetting: GazaVetters #5)

Ghada Nabil Al-Anqar's family: €5,349 eur / 20,000. (Vetting: GazaVetters #6)

Hani Hamid's family: €3,665 eur / 70,000. (Vetting: GazaVetters #99)

Mohammad Al-Khaldi's family: €4,482 eur / 20,000. (Vetting: GazaVetters #57, PaliLiberation #197)

Ahlam Ramadan's family: €6,414 eur / 20,000. (Vetting: GazaVetters #69)

Abood Alkhaldi's family: €768 eur / 100,000. (Vetting: GazaVetters #156)

Mahmoud Anwar's family: €816 eur / 15,000. (Vetting: GazaVetters #38)

Roaa Alkhaldi's family: €682 eur / 20,000. (Vetting: GazaVetters #126)

Hadia Saud's family: kr6,373 sek / 250,000. (Vetting: GazaVetters #65)

Ali Elshurafi's family: £549 gbp / 30,000. (Vetting: Shared by 90-ghost)

Haya Alshawish's family: €98,643 eur / 100,000. (Vetting: Operation Olive Branch #26, Project Watermelon #249)

Muhammad Al-Habil's family: €41,270 eur / 50,000. (Vetting: el-shab-hussein and nabulsi's Vetted Gaza Fundraiser #166)

Intisar Abushammaleh's family: $36,029 usd / 40,000. (Vetting: Verified by nabulsi)

Motaz Jad Al-Haq's family: kr192,578 sek / 250,000. (Vetting: Shared by 90-ghost)

Ghazi Younis Shahato's family: $5,714 usd / 50,000. (Vetting: Shared by 90-ghost)

Bilal Abed Rabou's family: €9,331 eur / 80,000. (Vetting: Shared by 90-ghost)

Ayaa Mahmoud's family: $38,272 usd / 35,000. (Vetting: By association here)

Munna Tashmali's family: £14,850 gbp / 30,000. (Vetting: Shared by nabulsi)

Mohammed Alwadiya's family: $13,831 usd / 35,000. (Vetting: ButterflyEffect Project #1013)

Anas Basil's family: €11,541 eur / 29,000. (Vetting: GazaVetters #83 and shared by 90-ghost)

Abdulkarim (Karam) Al-madhoun's family: €20,133 eur / 20,000. (Vetting: el-shab-hussein and nabulsi's Vetted Gaza Fundraiser #109)

Abdelrahman Alanqar's family: €20,095 eur / 30,000. (Vetting: Verified by el-shab-hussein)

Muntaha and Hamada Alskafi's family: €2,160 eur / 60,000. (Vetting: GazaVetters #80)

Ola Ferwana's family: €16,786 eur / 35,000. (Vetting: GazaVetters #60, ButterflyEffect Project #964)

Mohammed Alanqer's family: €69,699 eur / 70,000. (Vetting: el-shab-hussein and nabulsi's Vetted Gaza Fundraiser #174)

Ahmed Zakout's family: $13,882 cad / 50,000. (Vetting: Shared by 90-ghost)

Tareq Ayyad's family: $17,505 usd / $92,900. (Vetting: GazaVetters #160, PaliLiberation #95, ButterflyEffect Project #599)

Shady Ashour's family: €1,797 eur / 50,000. (Vetting: GazaVetters #44, Shared by 90-ghost)

Malk Helles' family: €513 eur / 40,000. (Vetting: GazaVetters #168)

Etaf Al-Qataa's family: €8,999 eur / 100,000. (Vetting: GazaVetters #88)

Anas Basil's family: €11,541 eur / 29,000. (Vetting: GazaVetters #83, Shared by 90-ghost)

Amal's family: $8,871 usd / 30,000. (Vetting: GazaVetters #55)

Waleed Alanqar's family: €2,748 eur / 20,000. (Vetting: GazaVetters #107)

Husam Farhat's family: $12,589 usd / 29,500. (Vetting: el-shab-hussein and nabulsi's Vetted Gaza Fundraiser #248)

Ghazi Al Amoudi's family: €3,352 eur / 10,000. (Vetting: GazaVetters #89)

Jamil Wasfi's family: €1,090 eur / 60,000. (Vetting: GazaVetters #226)

Hadeel's family: €3,063 eur / 70,000. (Vetting: GazaVetters #216)

Karim Saad Al-Din's family: €7,173 eur / 50,000. (Vetting: GazaVetters #192)

Last Updated 4 Dec 2024

[Edited the original post for updated campaign states + Additional campaigns that have reached out]

[eretzyisrael]

Sanaa: Asharq Al Awsat

Modern slavery is prevalent in Yemeni regions under the control of the Iran-backed Houthi militias, including the capital Sanaa.

Sources close to the group told Asharq Al-Awsat that several civilians have been forced into slavery by prominent Houthi leaders. More than 1,800 Yemenis work as servants and slaves at the residences and workplaces of high-ranking Houthi officials.

These including militias leader Abdulmalek al-Houthi, his brother Abdulkhaliq and their relatives Mohammed Ali al-Houthi, Hamza al-Houthi, Abdulkarim al-Houthi, Mohammed Abdulkarim al-Houthi, Yehya Badreddine al-Houthi, Sheikh Ashraf al-Kabsi, Abdulrab Saleh Jarfan, Hassan Amer and others.

The Houthis are working tirelessly to restore slavery in Yemen, nearly 70 years after the adoption of the Universal Declaration of Human Rights and decades after the 1962 revolution in Yemen. The revolt called for liberation against all forms of oppression and slavery.

Several local reports have confirmed that slavery witnessed a rise in Yemen during the past four years when the Houthis staged their coup against the legitimate government. Crimes linked to modern slavery vary from actual slavery, abusing people’s poverty and hunger, forced marriage, human trafficking and the forced recruitment of children, women and African migrants.

Yemeni activists revealed that since the coup, the Houthis sought to segregate Yemeni society into rulers and subjects, and masters and slaves.

They told Asharq Al-Awsat that the Houthis are attempting to cement these ideas in society by having the Houthi family seize all aspects of the state and its institutions.

“We do not doubt this segregation because it is the literal implementation of racist ideology that is based on modern slavery and the divine right to control rule, money and the affairs of the people,” they said.

A member of the lawyers syndicate in Yemen told Asharq Al-Awsat that some Houthi elders and social figures still enslave the poor, bind their freedoms and force them to work without pay. They are also forced to the battlefield to fight for the Houthis.

The Houthi discrimination against the people is based on color, race and ancestry, he said on condition of anonymity.

The masters, who call themselves the “Hashemites”, are now at the top of Yemen’s social class. They believe themselves to be of the purest ancestry and have given themselves the privilege of ruling the country and accumulating wealth. They are followed by tribes, workers and farmers. This class is often looked down upon and discriminated against by the Houthis.

Slavery is outlawed by Yemeni law, said the lawyer. Perpetrators can face no less than ten years for buying, selling or depriving a human of his free will.

Since their coup, the Houthis have sought to turn back the hands of time and take back Yemen to the era of the oppressive imamate and all forms of slavery.

A civilian, who works for a pro-Houthi tribal leader in Saada, told Asharq Al-Awsat: “I have been working for years at the sheikh’s house without pay. I cannot go back to my family or do anything out of my own free will.”

“I do not know the meaning of freedom,” he said.

He revealed that he is responsible for all the house work, as well as farming. He noted that the number of servants and slaves rose remarkably under Houthi rule, attributing it to the increase in poverty, unemployment and hunger, all of which were sparked by the coup.

Experts confirmed that poverty, starvation tactics, oppression and systematic Houthi exploitation have forced civilians into slavery.

The Minister of Awqaf in the legitimate government had previously called for the need to uncover the Houthis’ misleading practices, expose their discrimination against the people and their dividing of society into masters and slaves.

According to an international report, more than 40 million people around the world, including 85,000 in Yemen, are victims of slavery. It said the war-torn countries of Yemen and Syria account for 76 percent of slavery cases in the Arab world.

A US State Department report had also previously confirmed modern slavery in Yemen, accusing the Houthis and the al-Qaeda group of promoting slavery and human trafficking. Sexual abuse, slavery and child recruitment are among the most glaring examples of human trafficking in Yemen, it said.

[symptoms-syndrome]

"I wanted to hold her, and at the same time, flee.

I felt useless.

Why, in her moment of need, was I consumed with how I was feeling?

Was I incapable of feeling for others?

Was my state of being the result of endless violence?"

Angry Queer Somali Boy, Mohamed Abdulkarim Ali

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On 26 October, the Palestinian Ministry of Health released the list of names of Palestinians killed since 7 October. Among them, from the al-Madhoun family, are:

Hani Ibrahim Salim (59) and his children Ahmed Hani Ibrahim (25) , Fadi Hani Ibrahim (23), Menna Allah Hani Ibrahim (17), and Uday Hani Ibrahim (16); 

Hani’s son Sameh Hani Ibrahim (29), his wife Nagham Hatem Rabhi (27), and their children Islam Sameh Hani (3) and Najwa Sameh Hani (2);

Hani’s son Mohammed Hani Ibrahim (27) and his wife Nariman Hatem Rabhi (23);

Samira Fuad Hassan (55);

Nisreen Hosni Ismail (43);

Mahasen Ahmed Mohammed (41);

Amal Mahmoud Zayed (39);

Adam Ismail Sidqi (33);

Lina Zakaria Mohieddin (27); 

Mustafa Mohammed Mahmoud (26);

Muaz Khamis Sidqi (17) and his siblings Dima Khamis Sidqi (14) and Omar Khamis Sidqi (3); 

Fahd Munir Salah (15);

Akram Mohammed Abdelrahim (9) and his siblings Mahmoud Mohammed Abdelrahim (8), Fatima Mohammed Abdelrahim (7), Amani Mohammed Abdelrahim (3), Karam Mohammed Abdelrahim (2), and Watan Mohammed Abdelrahim (1);

Salma Ahmed Tawfiq (4);  

Lynn Saeed Mahmoud (3);

Muaz Mohammed Ibrahim;

Munir Jihad Munir and his brother Muhammad Jihad Munir;

Samah Mohammad Fahmy;

Jihad Salim;

Izz Moeen Hassan and his siblings Sundus Moeen Hassan, Iman Moeen Hassan and her son Qusay Abdel Madi;

Mahmoud Muhammad Moeen and his siblings Malik Muhammad Moeen, Rim Muhammad Moeen;

Fahmi Ayman Fahmi and his son Karim Fahmi Ayman;

Ataf Fuad;

Aya;

Mahir Abdulkarim Mahir and his sibling Siwar Abdulkarim Mahir;

Maryam Muhammad Hassan Bakhit;

Alaa Muhammad Mahmoud;

Maha Fuad Muhammad;

Nisreen Imad Fayez;

Ahmed Ismail Yahya;

Yassin Maher Mohy al-Din;

Afif Fuad Mahmoud;

Silah Muhammad Awad and her sister Hiba Muhammad Awad;

Intifada Othman Ibrahim;

Hoor Hazem Ahmed and her mother Rawan;

Usama Muhammad Rabah;

Manal Yassin Nimr;

Mundher Hamdi Khalil;

Iyad Omar Khalil and his sister Hala Omar Khalil;

Ahmed Nihad Omar and his sister Tulin Nihad Omar;

Dima Khalil Omar;

Majid Omar Yassin, his wife Safaa Hani, and their children Reeman Majid Omar, Salam Majid Omar, Omar Majid Omar, Ali Majid Omar, and Siwar Majid Omar;

and Khalil Abdulkarim.

You can read more about the human lives lost in Palestine on the Martyrs of Gaza Twitter account and here.

[kirstythejetblackgoldfish]

Cairo, SANA - Foreign and Expatriates Minister, Fayssal Mikdad, discussed with Head of the United Arab Emirates’ delegation to the Arab-Japanese political dialogue meeting, Minister of State Ahmed Ali al-Sayegh, bilateral relations and means of enhancing them in different domains.

Mikdad described as deep and brotherly the relations between Syria and the UAE that were enhance under the leadership of President Bashar al-Assad and his Highness Sheikh Mohamed bin Zayed Al Nahyan.

He appreciated the role played by the UAE during its membership in the Security Council, during which it defended the Arab interests.

Mikdad highly evaluated the UAE’s humanitarian stance in supporting Syria during the earthquake disaster that struck it last February.

In turn, al-Sayegh conveyed amity and appreciation of the people and leadership in the UAE to the Syrian leadership and people.

Al-Sayegh hoped Syria would rapidly recover and restore of its role, which would be positively reflected on the security of the region and the Arab countries.

In the same context, Mikdad met Head of the delegation of the Kingdom of Saudi Arabia, Deputy Minister of Foreign Affairs, Waleed bin Abdulkarim El-Khereiji.

The two sides affirmed keenness on developing the level of their bilateral relations.

Both sides also expressed their satisfaction with the level of those relations after the meeting between President al-Assad and His Highness Prince Mohammed bin Salman during the Arab Summit of Jeddah.

Talks during the meeting dealt with a number of files of common interest. Both sides agreed to continue coordination and consultation in the interest of the two peoples and the two brotherly countries.

[yourdailyqueer]

Mohamed Abdulkarim Ali

Gender: Male

Sexuality: Gay

DOB: Born 1985

Ethnicity: African - Somali

Nationality: Canadian

Occupation: Writer

[queerafricans]

Books by LGBTI Africans

[kinziethings]

REVIEW: Once A Girl, Always a Boy by Jo Ivestor

REVIEW: Once A Girl, Always a Boy by @JoIvester || #Transgender #Trans #Transrights #memoir #genderIdentity @shewritespress #netgalley

The Official Description: Jeremy Ivester is a transgender man. Thirty years ago, his parents welcomed him into the world as what they thought was their daughter. As a child, he preferred the toys and games our society views as masculine. He kept his hair short and wore boys’ clothing. They called him a tomboy. That’s what he called himself.

By high school, when he showed no interest in flirting,…

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Mohamed Abdulkarim Alin Angry queer somali boy kertoo nimensä mukaisesti queerin somalipojan elämästä. Kirja kertoo hyvin erilaisesta elämästä kuin mihin oon tottunu, ja sen sävy tuntui poikkeukselliselta, mikä toisaalta lienee luonnollista, kun ottaa huomioon että kirjailija ilmeisesti oli vielä kirjan kirjoittamisen aikaan koditon vaikeissa olosuhteissa.

Mohamed Abdulkarim Ali’s Angry queer somali boy tells about, as the name says, the life of a queer somali boy. The life the book describes is very different from what ive used to being portrayed. The tone of the book felt exceptional, but i guess that’s natural when you take into account that apparently the writer was still homeless and living in difficult situations when writing the memoir.

[saskbooks]

Angry Queer Somali Boy

Angry Queer Somali Boy

Angry Queer Somali Boy: A Complicated Memoir by Mohamed Abdulkarim Ali Published by University of Regina Press Review by Shelley A. Leedahl $21.95 ISBN 9-780889-776593

Sometimes a single line succinctly underscores the depths of the valley a person’s experienced. Deep into Mohamed Abdulkarim Ali’s memoir, Angry Queer Somali Boy: A Complicated Memoir, the Torontonian’s phrase “the first day I was…

[bookclub4m]

30 LGBTQ+ Non-Fiction by BIPOC (Black, Indigenous, & People of Colour) Authors

Every month Book Club for Masochists: A Readers’ Advisory Podcasts chooses a genre at random and we read and discuss books from that genre. We also put together book lists for each episode/genre that feature works by BIPOC (Black, Indigenous, & People of Colour) authors - to help readers to diversify their reading and library professionals to diversify their readers' advisory. All of the lists can be found here.

Angry Queer Somali Boy: A Complicated Memoir by Mohamed Abdulkarim Ali

Before Night Falls by Reinaldo Arenas

A History of My Brief Body by Billy-Ray Belcourt

¡Hola Papi!: How to Come Out in a Walmart Parking Lot and Other Life Lessons by John Paul Brammer

Punch Me Up to the Gods by Brian Broome

A Two-Spirit Journey: The Autobiography of a Lesbian Ojibwa-Cree Elder by Ma-Nee Chacaby

When We Were Outlaws: A Memoir of Love and Revolution by Jeanne Cordova

Asegi Stories: Cherokee Queer and Two-Spirit Memory by Qwo-Li Driskill

Bi: Notes for a Bisexual Revolution by Shiri Eisner

Dear Senthuran: A Black Spirit Memoir by Akwaeke Emezi

Brown Trans Figurations: Rethinking Race, Gender, and Sexuality in Chicanx/Latinx Studies by Francisco J. Galarte

Histories of the Transgender Child by Jules Gill-Peterson

We Have Always Been Here: A Queer Muslim Memoir by Samra Habib

Belly of the Beast: The Politics of Anti-Fatness as Anti-Blackness by Da'Shaun Harrison

Wayward Lives, Beautiful Experiments: Intimate Histories of Riotous Black Girls, Troublesome Women, and Queer Radicals by Saidiya Hartman

Becoming Human: Matter and Meaning in an Antiblack World by Zakiyyah Iman Jackson

All Boys Aren't Blue: A Memoir-Manifesto by George M. Johnson

How We Fight For Our Lives by Saeed Jones

Some of Us Did Not Die: New and Selected Essays by June Jordan

Sister Outsider: Essays and Speeches by Audre Lorde

Continuum by Chella Man

The Black Trans Prayer Book edited by J Mase III and Dane Figueroa Edidi

Antiman: A Hybrid Memoir by Rajiv Mohabir

nîtisânak by Jas M. Morgan

Borealis by Aisha Sabatini Sloan

Black on Both Sides: A Racial History of Trans Identity by C. Riley Snorton

I'm Afraid of Men by Vivek Shraya

I Hope We Choose Love: A Trans Girl's Notes from the End of the World by Kai Cheng Thom

Beyond the Gender Binary by Alok Vaid-Menon

Covering: The Hidden Assault on Our Civil Rights by Kenji Yoshino

[lgbtqreads]

Could you recommend some books by African and Asian authors?

- Thank you <3

Sure - check out THE NEVER TILTING WORLD by Rin Chupeco, DON’T TELL MY MOTHER and YOU, ME, US by Brigitte Bautista, and ANOTHER WORD FOR HAPPY by Agay Llanera, who are all Filipinx; LOVE IN THE BIG CITY by Sang Young Park, which is being published in English in the US in November, I believe; NOTES OF A CROCODILE by Qiu Miaojin; THE TRUE QUEEN and the upcoming BLACK WATER SISTER by Zen Cho for Malaysian work; Adiba Jaigairdar’s books for Bangladeshi (both set in Ireland), Aliette de Bodard and Ocean Vuong for Vietnamese (the former’s also French inspired and the latter more Vietnamese American); and anything by CB Lee, Sabina Khan, and Malinda Lo, HOLD ME by Courtney Milan, PICTURE US IN THE LIGHT by Kelly Loy Gilbert, THE BEST AT IT by Maulik Pancholy, and the upcoming LOVE & OTHER NATURAL DISASTERS by Misa Sugiura and MEET CUTE DIARY by Emery Lee are some faves by Asian American authors. Also, all three of my favorite graphic novels must get a shout here: MOONCAKES by Wendy Xu and Suzanne Walker, THE MAGIC FISH by Trung Le Nguyen, and FLAMER by Mike Curato. Oh, and for Cambodian American, I am very much looking forward to reading the late Anthony Veasna So’s AFTERPARTIES, which comes out in August.

I’m not as familiar with as much queer African lit, though I believe all of the authors of the books under Nigerian here are in fact Nigerian: https://lgbtqreads.com/representation/nationality-tribal-affiliation/ and I also cannot recommend Akwaeke Emezi’s work highly enough. For a memoir, try ANGRY QUEER SOMALI BOY by Mohamed Abdulkarim Ali, and there’s also a YA called LIGHTER by A. Aduma; the author is Kenyan. Clearly I’ve got some more researching to do!

[famouslastwords-]

I wasn’t tagged but I want to join in anyway so here are 9 books I want to read in 2022 and, since I’m making up my own rules anyway, 3 books I’ve already finished in 2022.

9 Books I Want to Read in 2022:

The Seven Husbands of Evelyn Hugo by Taylor Jenkins Reid

Shadow and Bone by Leigh Bardugo

House of Earth and Blood by Sarah J. Maas

We Have Always Been Here by Samra Habib

The Sentence by Louise Erdrich

The Silence of the Girls by Pat Barker

Strange Beasts of China by Yan Ge

A Promised Land by Barack Obama

Sword of Destiny by Andrzej Sapkowski

3 Books I’ve Already Read in 2022:

Detransition, Baby by Torrey Peters

Neon Gods by Katee Robert

Angry Queer Somali Boy: A Complicated Memoir by Mohamed Abdulkarim Ali

[grand--queen]

The publisher of Mohamed Abdulkarim Ali’s, Angry Queer Somali Boy: A Complicated

The publisher of Mohamed Abdulkarim Ali’s, Angry Queer Somali Boy: A Complicated

The publisher of Mohamed Abdulkarim Ali’s, Angry Queer Somali Boy: A Complicated Memoir, decided that it should include this content alert on the book’s opening pages: “This book is about addiction and recovery from trauma. It contains graphic reference to physical and sexual abuse that may be disturbing to some readers.” Do you also understand this book as one primarily about addiction and…

[gritvan]

The publisher of Mohamed Abdulkarim Ali’s, Angry Queer Somali Boy: A Complicated

The publisher of Mohamed Abdulkarim Ali’s, Angry Queer Somali Boy: A Complicated

The publisher of Mohamed Abdulkarim Ali’s, Angry Queer Somali Boy: A Complicated Memoir, decided that it should include this content alert on the book’s opening pages: “This book is about addiction and recovery from trauma. It contains graphic reference to physical and sexual abuse that may be disturbing to some readers.” Do you also understand this book as one primarily about addiction and…