St. Porphyrius Church just issued a statement that approximately 150-200 people were killed when the occupation bombed the church today (19 Oct 23). Right now dozens of people are still trapped under the rubble and we don't know how many are alive or dead. Palestinians of multiple faiths were sheltering in the church after being forced to flee their homes. Nothing is sacred to the occupying entity — not human life, not history, not literal sacred spaces.

There has been a church on the site since the 5th century, when St. Porphyrius was bishop of Gaza, and the current structure dates to the 12th century.

Global Strike Day 4): Lions of Canaan

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The Palestine National Football team, also known as "The Lions of Canaan" (أُسُودُ كَنعَان) was founded in 1928 and recognised by FIFA in 1998. During the 2024 AFC Asian Cup, the team made a historical win against Hong Kong, qualifying them for the knockout rounds for the first time.

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Source: De Guerville, A. B. "New Egypt." E.P. Dutton & Company, New York, 1906. p. 148. https://commons.m.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Veiled_Woman_(1906)_-_TIMEA.jpg

Mahmoud Saïd

« Adam and Eve »

1937

Marocco e Croazia hanno gatti come portafortuna nei loro inizio o fine partita....ma pensa te ....senza gatti....umanità caput...e basta....me ne frego anche dei miei 4 figli tanto sono solo adulti umani futuro inquinare mangiare morti..meglio 8 miliardi di crepata velosc velosc ...basta lenti....lenticchie e lentezze..... #qatar2022 #MagribWinner wal #mashriq?no....fu detto VIENE DA OCCIDENTE....ovest.... (presso Don Vito's Cats Bar Home) https://www.instagram.com/p/CmFs7bOohTH/?igshid=NGJjMDIxMWI=

Sitara kya meri taqdeer ki khabar dega? Woh khud farakhi-e-aflaak mein hai khwaar-o-zaboon.

How can the stars foretell about my destiny? They themselves roam perplexed and mean in skies that have no shore.

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Aur mashriq aur maghrib sab Khuda ka hai. To jidhar tum ruju karo udhar Khuda ki zaat hai . Beshaq Khuda saheb e vusuat aur bakhabar hai. Terjuma : Fatah Muhammed Jalandhari (urdu)

Surah Baqarah : ayat 115

Tell me more about the North African music of protest, because that sounds like a class I would have loved (not speaking Arabic notwithstanding).

OKAY!!!!

So this class is about music and people of North Africa and it is probably the coolest class I've ever taken. It's cross listed in Folk Studies, Anthropology, and African American Studies bc it's a one off and the university couldn't decide where to put it ig??

So the first thing to understand is that defining North Africa is tricky. Generally accepted definitions include Morocco, Algeria, Tunisia, Libya, Western Sahara, and sometimes Egypt. This area of the world could conceivably fit in many different geographical areas: the Middle East (also tricky to define), the Arab World (different from the Middle East!!), Mediterranean countries, Africa. In Arabic there is a distinction between the Mashriq/مشرق and the Maghreb/مغرب, meaning the East (i.e. the Arabian Peninsula) and the West (i.e. North Africa) and Egypt sort of floats between the two depending on what political purpose the definitions are serving at that time. The Maghreb/North Africa is often called Jazirat al-Maghreb (the Island of the Maghreb) in Arabic because it is culturally and geographically distinct from the other Mediterranean states to the north, the Saharan and sub-Saharan African states to the south, and the Mashriq to the east.

So! To get into protest music! After North African states fought for and won independence from their European colonizers (notably the British in Egypt and the French in Tunisia, Algeria, and Morocco) they had to decide how to build a national identity, and they chose Andalusi music (music brought by Arab and Jewish migrants from the Iberian Peninsula after it was re-conquered by the Spanish) as a major part of this, and suppressed other genres of music, especially ones that were considered perverse or corruptive. This included Algerian raï and Tunisian mezwid, because they were music by and for the urban poor. Raï and mezwid discussed drinking, sex, drugs, and other taboo subjects, and were generally considered not appropriate for polite company. Raï in particular played with gender roles, with men sometimes singing in a high tessitura and women singing in a lower register. Despite the censorship both of these musics faced, they are arguably the most popular national music in Algeria and Tunisia respectively, and suffer less censorship now than they did in the 1980s and '90s.

Now I've gotten this far without discussing indigenous North Africans, but that's about to change. The Maghreb has been colonized by several different groups over thousands of years: the Romans, the Arabs, and the Ottomans. The people these groups were conquering are the Amazigh (also called the Berber people, but they mostly now self-identify as Amazigh/Imazighen (pl.) meaning freemen, so that's what I'm using). And the Amazigh are still around! For decades after the end of colonization it was forbidden to teach Tamazight, the Amazigh language, or to broadcast their music, but that is slowly changing, and there is a pan-national Amazigh movement to preserve their music, culture, and language! Additionally, there are significant Black populations in North Africa, many of whose ancestors were brought from sub-Saharan Africa to the Maghreb as slaves, or who immigrated to the Maghreb. These populations and their music (Gnawa and Stambeli, most notably) were also suppressed in favor of Arab and Andalusi music. Eventually, in the 1970s in Morocco, a band called Nass el Ghiwane formed, drawing on the different heritages of their members, who were from different parts of Morocco and included men with musical heritage in Gnawa and Amazigh music, to meld this with Arab music and Western rock influences. Nass el Ghiwane was hugely popular, and their music, which often involved spoken poetry or proverbs, was used to critique the state of Moroccan society in a time of intense censorship, and incorporated the sounds of marginalized groups in a new way.

This was probably more than you wanted, but I think it's so interesting! The links go to Spotify playlists/pages if you want to give it a listen!

Overland routes across the Maghreb and Mashriq deserts (Trans-Saharan route) ,Sea routes to the east of Africa through the Red Sea and Indian Ocean (Oriental route) The Arab slave trade originated before Islam and lasted more than a millennium. Arab traders brought Africans across the Indian Ocean from present-day Kenya, Mozambique, Tanzania,Eritrea, Ethiopia and elsewhere in East Africa to present-day Iraq, Iran, Kuwait, Somalia, Turkeyand other parts of the Middle East and South Asia (mainly Pakistan and India). Unlike the trans-Atlantic slave trade to the New World, Arabs supplied African slaves to the Muslim world, which at its peak stretched over three continents from the Atlantic to the Far East.

#africa #arabslavetrade

Jirji Azar, 1988. Week after week women gather in protest every Sunday after mass in Bayt Sahur, near Bethlehem

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my great grandparents, my grandpa-uncles and my grandpa, so-called-Brazil, circa 1915-1920.

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From this week's assigned reading of Orientalism Chapter 3, section II, I chose one paragraph to analyze, and what I took from this paragraph is that the Generalization and dehumanization of individuals caused by Orientalization categorize people based on their identity as human beings rather than based on their character, its sad to see that many people in Europe follow the concept of the 'Kipling's white man' and how that they view themselves (Europeans superiority over colored races). One source that I previously collected talks about a similar situation where Hollywood uses Generalization and racial stigmatism to portray characters from the East and how actors today face Orientalism. 

Source: https://lebanesestudies.ojs.chass.ncsu.edu/index.php/mashriq/article/view/82/562

References (MLA FORMAT)

“View of Post-Oriental Otherness: Hollywood’s Moral Geography of Arab Americans: Mashriq & Mahjar: Journal of Middle East & North African Migration Studies.” View of Post-Oriental Otherness: Hollywood’s Moral Geography of Arab Americans | Mashriq & Mahjar: Journal of Middle East & North African Migration Studies, lebanesestudies.ojs.chass.ncsu.edu/index.php/mashriq/article/view/82/562. Accessed 4 Apr. 2024.

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Friedrich nitzsche said:

There are days when I am haunted by a feeling that is blacker than the blackest melancholy. I have a contempt for humanity. I despise the people I have been fated to call my contemporaries. I feel suffocated by their presence.

And shair-e-mashriq(poet of the east) Allama Iqbal wrote:

Duniya ki mehfilo se ukta gaya hu ya rab,

Kya lutf anjuman ka jab dil hi bujh gaya ho.

O Lord, I'm tired of this life,these human gatherings these daily chores. What is the point of having people around when the heart is worn out?

Sometimes I find myself overwhelmed by such a sense of negativity that every aspect of life seems too heavy on me.