Amalia Murad ✍️

@Yohannk "Congratulations on your new role! Wishing you great success. The Guardian is lucky to have someone who values powerful storytelling and meaningful journalism. ✨"

For those of you still lurking here: I'm now a deputy editor of the Long Read at the Guardian. Very excited to be at the home of such consistently excellent long-form reportage and essays. To journalists and other writers who'd like to contribute: pitch me!

@AtriaBooks "Sounds like a magical adventure! Wishing everyone good luck

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@georgegalloway "Every platform changes over time. What matters is keeping spaces where people can share ideas, stories, and different perspectives respectfully.

Twitter ye not! As Musk becomes the richest man on the planet, or perhaps the universe, his plaything Twitter becomes ever more right-wing and censorious. Quit Twitter? We're thinking about it George says Follow #MOATS 560 #GeorgeGalloway #Musk #Twitter #X #boycott

@rachbarnhart "A library is not just a place, it’s a home for stories and memories. 📚"

In Rochester, this issue is getting zero coverage. Media has forgotten the role in plays in our democracy. Truly shameful.

@rachbarnhart "What a beautiful connection between a place and a lifetime of memories. Libraries are more than buildings; they hold stories, dreams, and generations. 📚✨"

I grew up at this library. Congratulations to everyone involved in this project. It's an anchor of the Maplewood neighborhood. whec.com/top-news/maple…

@ThunderingPrime @rachbarnhart no

@rachbarnhart Do you think parody and political cartoons should be banned too?

Should be banned axios.com/2026/06/16/ai-…

@AtriaBooks "Stories like this remind us of the power of books to connect people, open hearts, and help us see life from different perspectives. 📚

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@JPrime299 Wise words, for not everyone you meet possesses the same values or intentions.

If you expect the world to be just because your fair then your fooling yourself, thats like expecting a lion not to eat you because you didn't eat it. Sometimes u gotta learn not everyone is fair and not everyone you meet is equal.

@RepThomasMassie Beautiful garden and a smart way to make room for everything.

This is the garden Carolyn and I are growing this year. She wanted to plant flowers and herbs in my vegetables. Rather than argue about how many vegetables that would displace, I expanded the garden by building another terrace with stones I found on the farm.

@georgegalloway @elonmusk @bluesky @X Everyone is entitled to their opinion, but transparency and equal standards should apply to all platforms

The inclusion of @elonmusk and the exclusion of @bluesky in Starmer’s inquisition tell you all you need to know about his real motives and intentions. Hands off @X, Warts and all.

@georgegalloway How heartbreaking. No one, especially at 92 years old, should ever suffer something so cruel.

He’s 92 years old. They doused him with petrol to set him on fire…

reassured me, as if I had known him for a long time

a smile: “Are you okay? Are you tired from the crowd?” I replied shyly, avoiding his gaze: “No… I’m just happy.” He smiled and said: “I will try to make this day a beautiful beginning for us.” I did not fully understand the depth of his words then, but his voice strangely

with the excitement of new beginnings in his features. His eyes carried a strange mixture I could not fully understand at that time… something between tenderness, amazement, and a beautiful confusion in the face of a new life not yet begun. He gently came closer and asked with

the responsibilities ahead… I was simply living happiness as it was—pure and simple—like a child wearing an Eid dress for the first time, believing the whole world is celebrating her. My husband was by my side the whole time. A young man in his early twenties, close to me in age

and I moved between faces like a young girl experiencing her very first moment in life. I laughed a lot, danced shyly, and felt as if I could not believe what was happening. I was not thinking about tomorrow, or the meaning of leaving my father’s house for a new home, or

 Chapter Three – The First Night, the First Closeness The marriage took place exactly as I had always dreamed… a great celebration, decorations filling the place, and songs blending with laughter and congratulations. The hall felt like another world of light and joy,

tears hid in my heart—I felt as if I were beginning a new life… but I was still a child, walking a long road without knowing where it would lead.

true beginning of my story, a story that would take me to places I never imagined, feelings I never knew, and experiences that would reshape my soul. In that moment, amid the sounds of celebration and my farewell to my mother—with eyes that smiled while

childhood home… I would be far from my mother, from my siblings, from my school, and from my small town that protected me and preserved my features. I was going to a distant city—a long journey, the first in my life—and my young heart did not know that this journey would be the