#mourid barghouti

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Mourid Barghouti, " It's Also Fine"

[jacobwren]

"Politics is the number of coffee cups on the table, the sudden presence of what you have forgotten, the memories you are afraid to look at too closely, though you look anyway. Staying away from politics is also politics. Politics is nothing and it is everything." - Mourid Barghouti

[edwordsmyth]

[benoylesinebirii]

"Temiz bir ölümle ölmek iyidir..."🇵🇸🇵🇸

[houseofpurplestars]

Poem: It's Also Fine by Palestinian poet Mourid Barghouti

It’s also fine to die in our beds

on a clean pillow

and among our friends.

It’s fine to die, once,

our hands crossed on our chests,

empty and pale,

with no scratches, no chains, no banners,

and no petitions.

It’s fine to have a clean death,

with no holes in our shirts,

and no evidence in our ribs.

It’s fine to die

with a white pillow, not the pavement, under our cheek,

with our hands resting in those of our loved ones,

surrounded by desperate doctors and nurses,

with nothing left but a graceful farewell,

paying no attention to history,

leaving this world as it is,

hoping that, someday, someone else

will change it.

[roselungs]

— Mourid Barghouti

seen on @palestinianpoetry on instagram

[ukdamo]

The Three Cypress Trees

Mourid Barghouti - Palestinian poet (in exile)

Transparent and frail, like the slumber of woodcutters, serene, foreshadowing things to come, the morning drizzle does not conceal these three cypresses on the slope. Their details belie their sameness, their radiance confirms it. I said: I wouldn’t dare to keep looking at them, there is a beauty that takes away our daring, there are times when courage fades away. The clouds rolling high above change the form of the cypresses. The birds flying towards other skies change the resonance of the cypresses. The tiled line behind them fixes the greenness of the cypresses and there are trees whose only fruit is greenness. Yesterday, in my sudden cheerfulness, I saw their immortality. Today, in my sudden sorrow, I saw the axe.

[violentdevotion]

I Saw Ramallah - Mourid Barghouti

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Mourid Barghouti, I Saw Ramallah p100

[erikaferestin]

And now for the blatantly obvious truth. I know and you know this is true, that Islam is about subjugating the world, they even say so openly, but we all pretend that it isn’t true because being a good leftist, or what Stalin called a “useful idiot”, requires us all to keep taking one for the team until we get killed off. That’s our role as leftists just like the leftist in Iran were killed off as soon as the theocrats had power. I am safe in my $30M house in Pacific Palisades but not you low-landers, you proletariat! Take heed!

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[roughghosts]

“I do not live in a place. I live in a time.” I Saw Ramallah by Mourid Barghouti

When his name is finally called after waiting for hours, he grabs his small bag and steps on to the Allenby Bridge to cross, for “the first time in thirty summers,” from Jordan to the West Bank: Is this a political moment? Or an emotional one? Or social? A practical moment? A surreal one? A moment of the body? Or of the mind? The wood creaks. What has passed of life is shrouded in a mist that…

[ferraguss]

beyaz bir yastıkta, ellerimiz sevdiklerimizin elleri arasında, çaresiz doktorlar ve hemşireler etrafımızda, arkamızda zarif bir vedadan başka hiçbir şey bırakmadan, tarihe aldırmadan, dünyayı öylece bırakarak, bir gün bir başkası onu değiştirir diye umarak ölmek iyidir.

[edwordsmyth]

Mourid Barghouti

[battyaboutbooksreviews]

🍉 Books for Read Palestine Week 2024 [ Nov 29 - Dec 5 ]

✨ This guide will no doubt get hidden, given the topic, so please help me by sharing this!

❓What are you reading this week?

🍉 Educate and empathize! Here are 82 books you can read for Read Palestine Week! I've included 26 queer books for those of you who #readqueerallyear as well. Please read these books to learn more about the Palestinian experience. Shukran (thank you)!

✨ Poetry 🍉 Enemy of the Sun - (ed) Edmund Ghareeb and Naseer Aruri 🍉 A Mountainous Journey - Fadwa Tuqan 🍉 So What - Taha Muhammad Ali 🍉 Affiliation - Mira Mattar 🍉 The Butterfly's Burden - Mahmoud Darwish 🍉 Born Palestinian, Born Black & The Gaza Suite - Suheir Hammad 🍉 Breaking Poems - Suheir Hammad 🍉 In the Presence of Absence - Mahmoud Darwish 🍉 Rifqa - Mohammed el-Kurd 🍉 My Voice Sought the Wind - Susan Abulhawa 🍉 Blood Orange - Yaffa 🏳️‍🌈 🍉 To All the Yellow Flowers - Raya Tuffaha 🏳️‍🌈 🍉 Before the Next Bomb Drops - Remi Kanazi 🍉 Birthright - George Abraham 🏳️‍🌈 🍉 Tent Generations - Various 🍉 Who is Owed Springtime - Rasha Abdulhadi 🏳️‍🌈 🍉 The Twenty-Ninth Year - Hala Alyan 🏳️‍🌈 🍉 Some Things Never Leave You - Zeina Azzam 🍉 I Saw Ramallah - Mourid Barghouti 🍉 Nothing More To Lose - Najwan Darwish 🍉 The Specimen's Apology - George Abraham & Leila Abdelrazaq 🏳️‍🌈 🍉 Shell Houses - Rasha Abdulhadi 🏳️‍🌈 🍉 The Moon That Turns You Back - Hala Alyan 🍉 Things You May Find Hidden in My Ear - Mosab Abu Toha 🍉 Halal If You Hear Me - (ed) Fatimah Asghar & Safia Elhillo 🍉 Water & Salt -Lena Khalaf Tuffaha 🍉 Dear God. Dear Bones. Dear Yellow. - Noor Hindi 🏳️‍🌈

✨ Non-Fiction/Memoirs 🍉 Are You This? Or Are You This? - Madian Al Jazerah 🏳️‍🌈 🍉 This Arab is Queer - (ed) Elias Jahshan 🏳️‍🌈 🍉 Love is an Ex-Country - Randa Jarrar 🏳️‍🌈 🍉 Decolonial Queering in Palestine - Walaa Alqaisiya 🏳️‍🌈 🍉 Namesake: Reflections on A Warrior Woman - N.S. Nuseibeh 🍉 The Trinity of Fundamentals - Wisam Rafeedie 🍉 Between Banat - Mejdulene Bernard Shomali 🏳️‍🌈 🍉 Queer Palestine and the Empire of Critique - Sa'ed Atshan 🏳️‍🌈 🍉 They Called Me a Lioness: A Palestinian Girl's Fight for Freedom - Ahed Tamimi & Dena Takruri 🍉 Fashioning the Modern Middle East: Gender, Body, and Nation - Reina Lewis and Yasmine Nachabe Taan 🍉 Balcony on the Moon: Coming of Age in Palestine - Ibtisam Barakat 🍉 We Are Not Here to Be Bystanders: A Memoir of Love and Resistance - Linda Sarsour 🍉 Palestine: A Socialist Introduction - Sumaya Awad & Brian Bean 🍉 Voices of the Nakba - Diana Allan 🍉 Tracing Homelands - Linda Dittmar 🍉 Black Power & Palestine - Michael R. Fischbach 🍉 The Ethnic Cleansing of Palestine - Ilan Pappé 🍉 A Day in the Life of Abed Salama - Nathan Thrall 🍉 A Land with a People - Esther Farmer, Rosalind Petchesky, & Sarah Sills 🍉 Inara by Mx. Yaffa AS 🏳️‍🌈 🍉 Mural - Mahmoud Darwish 🍉 Light in Gaza - Jehad Abusalim, Jennifer Bing, & Michael Merryman lotze 🍉 The Palestine Laboratory by Antony Loewenstein 🍉 Gaza - Norman Finkelstein

✨ Fiction 🍉 A Map of Home - Randa Jarrar 🏳️‍🌈 🍉 You Exist Too Much - Zaina Arafat 🏳️‍🌈 🍉 The Skin and Its Girl - Sarah Cypher 🏳️‍🌈 🍉 Minor Detail - Adania Shibli 🏳️‍🌈 🍉 The Philistine - Leila Marshy 🏳️‍🌈 🍉 Muneera and the Moon - Sonia Sulaiman 🏳️‍🌈 🍉 Belladonna - Anbara Salam 🏳️‍🌈 🍉 Behind You Is The Sea - Susan Muaddi Darraj 🍉 The Coin - Yasmin Zaher 🍉 Guapa - Saleem Haddad 🏳️‍🌈 🍉 The Parisian - Isabella Hammad 🍉 Salt Houses - Hala Alyan 🍉 The Ordeal of Being Known - Malia Rose 🏳️‍🌈 🍉 From Whole Cloth - Sonia Sulaiman 🏳️‍🌈 🍉 Against the Loveless World - Susan Abulhawa 🍉 The Beauty of Your Face - Sahar Mustafah 🍉 Mornings in Jenin - Susan Abulhawa 🍉 My First and Only Love - Sahar Khalifeh 🍉 They Fell Like Stars From the Sky & Other Stories - Sheikha Helawy 🍉 Enter Ghost by Isabella Hammad 🍉 Wild Thorns - Sahar Khalifeh 🍉 A Woman is No Man - Etaf Rum 🍉 Mother of Strangers - Suad Amiry 🍉 Hazardous Spirits - Anbara Salam 🏳️‍🌈 🍉 The Book of Ramallah - Maya Abu Al-Hayat

🏳️‍🌈 Graphic Novels 🍉 Mis(h)adra - Iasmin Omar Ata 🍉 Confetti Realms - Nadia Shammas 🍉 Where Black Stars Rise - Nadia Shammas & Marie Enger 🍉 Nayra and the Djinn - Iasmin Omar Ata 🍉 Squire - Nadia Shammas & Sara Alfageeh 🍉 My Mama's Magic - Amina Awad

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Yataklarımızda ölmek de iyidir__!!😔😓

Temiz bir yastıkta__

Ve arkadaşlarımızın arasında__

Bir kez olsun__

Ellerimiz göğsümüze kapanmış__

Boş ve solgun, çiziksiz, zincirsiz, bantsız

ve belgesiz ölmek iyidir__

Temiz bir ölümle ölmek iyidir__

Gömleğimizde deliksiz__

Ve kaburgalarımızda delilsiz__

Yanağımızın altında kaldırım taşı değil, beyaz bir yastıkla__

Ellerimiz sevdiklerimizin elleri arasında,

Çaresiz doktorlar ve hemşireler etrafımızda__

Arkamızda zarif bir vedadan başka hiçbir şey bırakmadan__

Tarihe aldırmadan__

Dünyayı öylece bırakarak__

Bir gün bir başkası onu değiştirir diye umarak__

Ölmek iyidir__!!

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Filistin'li şair:

Mourid Barghouti, Midnight and Other Poems

Yüce Allah tüm Filistin halkının yardımcısı olsun inşaallah, Aminn🤲🙏😔

[musfika-hanim]

yataklarımızda ölmek de iyidir

temiz bir yastıkta

ve arkadaşlarımızın arasında.

bir kez olsun

ellerimiz göğsümüze kapanmış,

boş ve solgun,

çiziksiz, zincirsiz, bantsız

ve belgesiz ölmek iyidir.

temiz bir ölümle ölmek iyidir,

gömleğimizde deliksiz

ve kaburgalarımızda delilsiz.

yanağımızın altında kaldırım taşı değil, beyaz bir yastıkla,

ellerimiz sevdiklerimizin elleri arasında,

çaresiz doktorlar ve hemşireler etrafımızda,

arkamızda zarif bir vedadan başka hiçbir şey bırakmadan,

tarihe aldırmadan,

dünyayı öylece bırakarak,

bir gün bir başkası onu değiştirir diye umarak

ölmek iyidir.

Mourid Barghouti