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"Alaa was a son, a brother, a husband and a father. He was an artist, in more ways than one: his last artworks were repairing his demolished apartment, and ours." 💔 palestine-studies.org/en/node/1657568

5. "You Wouldn’t Believe How Difficult It Is to Buy Sperm" @daniellelliot "One night in September 2022, like a kid sticking my finger into the flame of a candle, I Googled 'how to buy sperm.'" theguardian.com/lifeandstyle/a…

The Intercept was kind enough to publish and visualize key data findings from my new book on media bias and Gaza. Here are some examples - Emotive words in print/ - cable news - Antisemitism vs Islamophobia mentions - Coverage of Claudine Gay “scandal” v the Hind Rajab killing

Yay for @CraftLiterary and Mary Williams @mardragosa!

Congratulations to all winners of the 2026 O. Henry Prize for Short Fiction, and especially to @thebafflermag @CraftLiterary The Dial and @LAReview for their first O. Henry prize!

"'It's a ceasefire,' they say. I walked my favorite street yesterday. It was busier and narrower than it used to be. The shops are now tents." palestine-studies.org/en/node/1658473

Today, as Gaza continues to be stuck in a bloody limbo, we are turning our website over to Gaza and its people in an initiative we are calling “A Day for Gaza.” There will be no pieces published on our website today that do not come directly from Gaza. thenation.com/article/world/…

VIDEO | Mirsal Hattab, known locally as 'the maker of happiness', looks on tearfully as Israeli bulldozers demolish his family home in Nablus, the occupied West Bank.

RETURN HOME x The Sameer Project chuffed.org/project/149178…

"I can’t say exactly what we were discussing when the lightning hit—those memories were obliterated by a split-second arc of crackling violence. I can only tell the long years of aftermath." gargoylemagazine.com/ryan-alan-boyl…

An artist I follow on Instagram (gary.panter) posted this photo of their computer screen on their birthday and it has stuck to my heart like glue

full poem: “Do not love half lovers Do not entertain half friends Do not live half a life and do not die a half death If you choose silence, then be silent When you speak, do so until you are finished Do not silence yourself to say something And do not speak to be silent If you accept, then express it bluntly Do not mask it If you refuse then be clear about it for an ambiguous refusal is but a weak acceptance Do not accept half a solution Do not believe half truths Do not dream half a dream Do not fantasise about half hopes Half a drink will not quench your thirst Half a meal will not satiate your hunger Half the way will get you no where Half an idea will bear you no results Half a life is a life you didn't live A word you have not said A smile you postponed A love you have not had A friendship you did not know To reach and not arrive Work and not work Attend only to be absent The half is a mere moment of inability but you are able for you are not half a being You are a whole that exists to live a life not half a life” Khalil Gibran

Saleh Al-Ja'afrawi you will always be remembered. This video has touched millions. Just like you touched countless souls around the world.

“From now on, the liver was holding its breath. Every minute that it wasn’t connected to a body was a minute without oxygen, without blood circulating.” press.asimov.com/articles/liver

"I am still alive, and this is not a small thing in Gaza." palestine-studies.org/en/node/165771…

― Anne Sexton