lina | لينه

Eid Mubarak! in the midst of war, may the celebrations of the observant be as defiant as their fast <3 & may next year find us all free 🕊️

Eid Mubarak 🤍 May our lands be liberated and our martyrs be avenged

@BSonblast he is literally the face, the brand ambassador, & poster child of "fake deep"

That AB dude being dragged is just….

"Colonialism only loosens its hold when the knife is at its throat." - Frantz Fanon

Unmaking the Archive Tribute to Valentin-Yves Mudimbe In-person and ZOOM Thurs, April 9, 2026 11:00am-5:00pm EST Duke University, Smith Warehouse, Bay 4, Ahmadieh Lecture Hall In person registration: duke.is/mudimbe Register for Zoom option: duke.is/mudimbe-zoom

@sighahh there is a really great (& short) article by James Ferguson called "Seeing Like An Oil Company" about Euro-American multinationals in Africa. he has written about mining elsewhere, but the logic of the oil company still applies to other extractive industries & also the Chinese.

Not arguing with wiki professors. Not only has China provided weaponry used to carry out atrocities against my people over several decades, but it’s also an opportunistic vulture, benefiting from the ongoing violence in my region by propping up corrupt regimes for our resources.

RSF drone strike on town of Alkawwa in White Nile State. This is my mom’s hometown. There is nothing there worth bombing, just regular people trying to survive the best they can. #KeepEyesOnSudan

Samah is helping a student pay for her finals. The total goal is 850$ and currently around 100 is collected from it. paypal.me/SimsimAlbadri

As we say in Sudan: "good morning", Sky Group

the Middle East/SWANA does not exist as a site onto which the West can just project whatever biblical revenge fantasy they have going on. there are actual people living here that want & have nothing to do with Western desires to larp us into the end of times.

Iran is not being attacked because it violates human rights (its attackers are serial violators who don’t give a damn about human rights). It’s being attacked because it dared to defend the human rights of the Palestinian people from the ongoing Israeli genocide- the only recognized state to have done so. And it’s not being attacked for having nuclear weapons, but rather because it does not have nuclear weapons. There is no way to put lipstick on the pig of US-Israeli aggression, try as they may.

Banksy’s anonymity was a part of his art. How sad that Reuters spent time and resources trying to derail someone (who has contributed massively to society)’s career instead of investigating something worthwhile like, I don’t know, widespread political corruption or the Epstein Files. 🤡

bombing oil fields & setting them ablaze is going to have long-term environmental & health effects. it releases carcinogens & pollutants into the air & increases the risk of cancer & damage to the ecosystem. but, Israel does not care. chemical warfare & slow violence are its MO.

it's worth remembering that modern Hebrew was literally revived in the 19th century by zionists (see: colonialists) in anticpation of it being the national language of the state they hoped to establish...in other words, "a language is a dialect with an army and a navy"

@MODATHIRZAIN 🦓🦓🦓🦓

@labushouk I’m picking up what you’re laying down here .

i used to joke that i was going to make website, where i would make up sayings & just tag them as "African Proverbs," because the flagrant disregard for the fact that proverbs are context specific & not generically "African" (e.g. Igbo) is stunning. & a zebra never walks alone..

@namwalien @ChisomoWrites they used to assign Bessie Head's "When Rain Clouds Gather" to the Peace Corps as mandatory reading in the 80s. international orgs cant seem to tell the difference between realism & reality when it comes to Africa.

I'm not shocked; in THE OLD DRIFT, a neocolonial corporation uses Zambians as test subjects for an H.I.V. vaccine. But I WAS shocked when a U.S. mining tech company in Zambia wanted to give my novel to their American workers for a 'book club.' This is neoliberal politics, too.