#syrian and iraqi

[aaakikoo]

ABOUT ME

I am a woman lol

woc / poc

i love Asian culture in general.

gold > silver

love being a coquette & hyperfeminine woman <3 (even if my blog is the opposite, can’t tolerate bright color on screen lol)

cats person

lana del rey & feirouz >

pink & gold >

love spicy food

ENTJ

love jdrama & kdrama

love LOVE samyang buldak noodles

Detective Conan is my first anime and I still watch it! (it’s my fav anime of all time)

my favourite anime is attack on titan

roblox, minecraft, cod :))) (sometimes fortnite)

[secular-jew]

Who's the aggressor again?

[yourdailyqueer]

Wafia Al-Rikabi

Gender: Female

Sexuality: Pansexual

DOB: 4 August 1993

Ethnicity: Iraqi, Syrian

Nationality: Australian

Occupation: Singer, songwriter, musician

[vegan-nom-noms]

Vegan Atayef (Middle Eastern Pancakes) 

[haykhighland]

I think about this a lot

[mayormimii]

Pathologic Arabic dub dialects imo!! (Since they have different accents in English)

[rainofthetwilight]

whenever I see the whole lloyd can't have blonde hair thing, sometimes people forget that not All asians can't have blonde hair...like, I think ppl forget how for example alot of arab countries are in southwest asia, and we 100% can have blonde hair so....

basically what I'm saying is give lloyd arab genes 👍

[irhabiya]

im still thinking about this one guy in my medical anthropology elective idk why his comment pissed me off so much but i haven't been able to get it off my mind.

we were having a general discussion about the intersection between healthcare and politics, who gets to be sick, who gets to be treated and who will never be either and this guy said something like "disease affects people regardless of their socioeconomic status. covid didn't exclude the rich for example" ... how can u be this fucking obtuse as a young adult i don't get it

[apollos-olives]

i hate going to the masjid because it's fr crazy how ignorant other arabs and muslims are about palestine. like their political beliefs are so unbelievably stupid it's as if they don't even give a fuck about palestine (and they don't). arabs cannot give a fuck about countries other than theirs and it shows. today i literally had to sit there and listen to a syrian tell me how joe biden can't do anything and it's not his fault. like wow. you are the disease.

[mapsontheweb]

Visualizing The wars in Syria and Iraq, Civil War, and the Spread of ISIS

by u/oscarleo0

   Data Source: https://ucdp.uu.se/  

   Full article with more areas: https://medium.com/datadriveninvestor/data-visualization-mapping-fatal-conflicts-and-events-between-1989-and-2023-ceee74dc4e9f  

   Tools used: Python, Matplotlib, Seaborn, Geopandas  

   This dataset (UCDP) contains events of organized violence between 1989 and 2023. In this visualization, I've plotted all events from Iraq and Syria since 2003. The number of casualties are estimated and not necessarily accurate.  

   The black circles are events where ISIS is participating in the armed conflict without allies.  

   The red circles are mostly the Syrian government against Syrian insurgents but can also include extremist violence.  

   The size of the circles are decided by the number of casualties linearly.  

[swanasource]

“Marwan Kaabour’s Takweer created an online community spotlighting queer Arab pop culture and history. Now, it’s expanded into a book exploring West Asia’s LGBTQIA+ community through language and literature.”

“We need to take ownership of our history”: Inside Takweer’s viral Instagram page

[totallyhussein-blog]

“This is the end of the great history of Christians in Aleppo”

“We are really tired. We are really exhausted, and we are also finished, in every sense”. Father Jacques' words to Gianni Valente, as always, resonate with his faith and his story.

Jacques Mourad, a monk of the monastic community of Deir Mar Musa, has been the Syrian Catholic Archbishop of Homs since March 3, 2023, the city where refugees from Aleppo, which has once again fallen into the hands of armed jihadist "rebel groups", continue to arrive. He was born in Aleppo, where he has some of his best memories and dearest companions.

The spiritual son of Father Paolo Dall'Oglio (Roman Jesuit, founder of the monastic community of Deir Mar Musa, who disappeared on 29 July 2013 in Raqqa, the Syrian capital of ISIS at the time), he was kidnapped by a jihadist commando in May 2015 and spent long months being held hostage, first in isolation and then together with more than 150 Christians from Quaryatayn, also taken hostage in the territories conquered by ISIS at the time.

This is why Father Jacques knows what he is talking about when he repeats that "we cannot bear all the suffering of the people who arrive here exhausted after 25 hours of travel. They are thirsty, hungry, cold and have nothing left".

The words he chooses in his interview with Fides are, as always, a testimony of faith. A faith that also asks: "why all this, why must we endure this suffering?" and that, in the meantime, is zealously concerned about the people fleeing Aleppo, which has been besieged again.

"The situation in Homs is dangerous," says Father Jacques, "many refugees from Aleppo, including Christians, came to us via the old road in the first few days after the attack by the armed groups. We were not prepared for this, so we immediately held a meeting with the bishops and set up two reception centers with the help of the Jesuits and the support of 'Œuvre d'Orient' and 'Aid to the Church in Need'.

"To help the refugees, we need food, mattresses, blankets and diesel." Active charity goes hand in hand with many questions. "The suffering is immeasurable, the Syrians are shocked by what has happened. We all know what happens when an armed group invades a country and the government and the Russians immediately react by bombing the occupied towns and villages… Why is Aleppo being so tormented?

Why do they want to destroy this historic, symbolic and important city for the whole world? Why, after 14 years of suffering, misery and death, do the Syrian people still have to pay for it? Why are we so abandoned in this world, in this unbearable injustice?"

The Syrian Catholic Archbishop of Homs also stresses "the responsibility of foreign powers, America, Russia, Europe…" "They all bear direct responsibility for what happened in Aleppo," he stresses.

A "crime", Father Jacques continues, "that represents a danger for the entire region, for Hama, for the Jazira region", and for which "the direct responsibility lies not only with the regime or with the armed rebel groups, but with the international community" and with the "political games that everyone is playing in this region".

Father Jacques, who has launched catechism courses for children and young people in his diocese as a real starting point for the Christian communities after the painful years of war, is aware of the feelings that are now rising in the hearts of so many brothers and sisters in faith:

"After the action of these armed groups", he tells Fides, "the Christians of Aleppo will be convinced that they cannot stay in Aleppo. That it is over for them. That they no longer have any reason to stay. In Aleppo they are trying to bring about the end of the rich, magnificent and unique history of the Christians of Aleppo".

[workersolidarity]

🇸🇾⚔️🇺🇲 🚨 "PRO-IRANIAN" RESISTANCE HAS LAUNCHED 60 ATTACKS ON ILLEGAL U.S. MILITARY BASES SYRIA SINCE OCTOBER 19TH

The Islamic Resistance in Syria, referred to as being "Pro-Iranian" militias in the media, has launched a total of 60 attacks on illegal U.S. Military bases located on Syrian territory.

The attacks, which have included both rocket and drone strikes, have been targeting illegal U.S. Military bases rather than the energy fields some of the bases have been built on, according to the Syrian Observatory for Human Rights.

The International Watchdog group, based in the U.K., says the attacks have been escalating as Israel's genocide in Gaza continues without international intervention.

However, due to American secrecy, the Humanitarian observatory notes, casualty counts among American soldiers and contractors remains unknown.

A previous report by the observatory noted that the attacks were staged from Iraqi territory and targeted U.S. military bases in the eastern province of Deir al-Zour near the Iraqi border.

#source

@WorkerSolidarityNews

[bunny-banana]

most amusing thing in the whole wide world is talking to Arabic speakers about the dialects bcs everyone always has the most heated opinions

[vegan-nom-noms]

Walnut Atayef (Middle Eastern Pancakes)

[aralintheobsessive]

Just unfollwed someone for reblogging an video saying this: Jews are direct descendants of Abraham, who was Arabic, and Abraham was there first, so Arabs were there first, so Jews are White Colonizers. DO YOU KNOW HOW ANCESTRY WORKS???? 'Oh yeah this Arab guy's great-grandkids? They have no claim to being Arabic. But his OTHER great-grandkids? Those are Arabs because he's their ancestor.' It could be argued if you follow Abrahamic geaneology that Ishmael's Arab descendants get their claim to that ethnicity through his mother Hagar, who was Egyptian (although at that time that could have been what we modern people would consider like three different ethnicities but whatever). However, if you are going to say (and he did) that Abraham was Arabic because he was born in the region that is now modern-day Iraq (not set in stone but a viable argument), then that makes ALL of his sons and their grandchildren Arabic! If you want to claim that Arabs were 'there first' because Abraham was Arabic, you then have to admit that all of his descendants are HIS DESCENDANTS