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We Are Palestinian: A Celebration of Culture and Tradition | Reem Kassis

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Rounding out my #bannedbooksweek reading with this illustrated overview of Palestinian history and culture. There‘s a lot of great info here, in bite sized pieces, from geography to cultural symbols, food, arts, history, and well-known poets, authors, and journalists. It‘s a really important book that showcases the rich history and culture of a people being othered and erased.

dabbe L🖤VE your bookmark. 💜🧡💛 1d

DGRachel @dabbe Thank you! I buy all of my Interlink Press books (and their imprints) direct from the publisher since they are the only Palestinian owned publishers in the US and they included that bookmark and some stickers in my last order. 💖 1d

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AllDebooks

The Coin: A Novel | Yasmin Zaher

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This was a difficult read due to the MC's risky behaviours and unsettling psychological state. Zaher packs a punch in a small volume, with her chosen themes of statehood and statelessness, inherited trauma, physical and mental displacement, mental health, loneliness and the risks of being vulnerable with others.

It was a fascinating read and I look forward to more from such an accomplished author.

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itsjustme40something

Minor Detail | Adania Shibli

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I couldn't put it down. The story explains how past traumas of state violence continue to shape and effect the lives of the Palestinians today. It also brings to attention that the "victors" get to be the ones to record the narrative and highlights what is omitted while calling into question how reliable the "Official " narrative is

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Kitta

A Woman Is No Man: A Novel | Etaf Rum

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A family saga bouncing back and forth through time about 3 Palestinian women living in America, trying to keep the customs of their culture but wanting more choices for themselves and their daughters.

Rated very highly on Goodreads and all my friends loved it but I found some of it predictable and repetitive. Maybe my expectations were too high? Still it‘s worth a read if you enjoy stories of women trying to overcome oppression.

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Kitta #catsoflitsy Hazel jumping in again. 3w

Texreader Hazel is a darling!! ♥️💕🐈‍⬛ 3w

Kitta @Texreader thank you!! 😊 3w

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AmyG She is so beautiful. 3w

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BarbaraBB Lovely photo 😻😻 3w

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Message | Ta-Nehisi Coates

Interesting article by Ta-Nehisi Coates for Vanity Fair. “Words are not violence, nor are they powerless.” https://www.vanityfair.com/news/story/charlie-kirk-ezra-klein-tanehisi-coates?s=...

AmyG Very good article. 4w

Bette Thanks. 👍 4w

AnnCrystal Never even knew about this Charlie Kirk guy until now. I've been shocked about highlights on his teachings and this article is informative at a whole new level. Horrifying. Thank you for sharing.

The last bit of this article was correct 🎯.

“The import of this history has never been clearer than in this moment when the hard question must be asked: If you would look away from the words of Charlie Kirk, from what else would you look away?“ 4w

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Robotswithpersonality

The Message | Ta-Nehisi Coates

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Definitely falls in the category of 'the kind of writing I'm hoping is being read and discussed in classrooms'.
The book is divided into four essays, with a heavy focus on the purpose of writing. 1/?

Robotswithpersonality 2/? Journalism is Not a Luxury - The importance and power of words relaying the truth of experience, interviewing people to get the actual facts from sources, confront the 'known' popular idea/perspective. 1mo

Robotswithpersonality 3/? On Pharaohs - Finding proof of resilience, community, addressing internalized racism, colourism, created by the intentional agenda of white supremacy justifying slavery.
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Robotswithpersonality 4/? Bearing the Flaming Cross - My favourite ❤️ - Learning and writing with ADHD; context and the meaning and purpose of learning certain knowledge; safe space so students can be challenged, less available to black studens and those who are not served by traditional classroom structure; the backlash against 'critical race theory'; censorship/book banning; objection against teaching conformity, art influencing politics. 1mo

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Robotswithpersonality 5/? The Gigantic Dream -Journalistic responsibility, colonialism, racism and the Jim Crow era, how aspects of these experiences show up in the current Palestinian experience, but fall short of identifying the full sense of what Palestinians are struggling to survive. Coates is addressing his own lenses of experience, acknowledging analogies perhaps not as useful or appropriate as he'd hoped in an article he'd previously written called “The (edited) 1mo

Robotswithpersonality 6/? It continues to be encouraging every time a journalist focuses on the injustices inflicted upon Palestine, when they're willing to push through the thorny topic of historical and modern antisemitism to specifically address what is going in Israel now. However, this essay in particular, which takes up about half the book, suffers in comparison to Omar El Akkad's One Day, Everyone Will Have Always Been Against This. 1mo

Robotswithpersonality 7/7 Akkad's writing is consistently an urgent gut punch, while Coates seems to regularly get bogged down in self-recrimination for not fully understanding the issue, and considering historical lenses, even if both of those aspects have weight in considering how journalists can write better on such critical matters.

⚠️racism, antisemitism 1mo

Cuilin Fantastic detailed review. 1mo

Robotswithpersonality @Cuilin Thanks! ❤️ 1mo

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