I will take no whataboutery when it comes to Palestine. I have seen too many dead children to listen to anything beyond the truth.

With 'Hind's Hall,' writes Dave Zirin, Macklemore is staring at the artistic world, saying “The students are risking it all. Where are you?”
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Join us at The The Book Lounge for the launch of Shubnum Khan | Order The Djinn Waits's latest novel, The Lost Love of Akbar Manzil. Shubnum will be in conversation with award-winning author, Gorjas Mohale.

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Got to get my aunt on this - find your match AND sell your mango atchar.

I felt the same. I was at the NYU encampment as well before the wall was built - it was so organized and peaceful. I’m so proud of these students, no matter what the outcome, they proved themselves to themselves and they get to live with that for the rest of their lives.

600,000 Palestinian children are in Rafah. They are already threatened by starvation, disease and dehydration. Israel gave only hours for 100,000 Palestinians to leave to Al Mawasi, itself even more overcrowded, unsafe and without infrastructure.4/

as a jew who works at ucla, there’s been exactly one time I’ve felt unsafe on campus

it was when zionist counter-protestors were screaming in my face & calling me a rapist at the gaza solidarity encampment

There was occupation on October 6
There was apartheid on October 6
There was ethnic cleansing on October 6
There was torture on October 6
There was abductions on October 6
There was settler attacks on October 6
There was Israeli terror on October 6
Nothing *began* on October 7

Breaking:

The Israeli army is starting to blow up complete neighborhoods in east Rafah, just four hours after ordering families to evacuate the area.
Again, about 200,000 people live in east Rafah.
Every house that is blown up makes dozens of families homeless more than ever.

I somehow got my mamma to agree to talk about me and my writing next week on the radio and let me tell you this woman who is simultaneously both fiery and somehow shy wants to kill me.

I’m doing my yearly sunrise hike up Lions Head pilgrimage next week iA. I do it although I’m mostly unfit. If anyone wants to join me this year I want to make new friends so DM me.

Whenever I feel the quiver of sadness raise to the bow of my chest, the crack of grief run through my bones, the tide of tears rise to my eyes, I remember softness in a world determined to make us hard is an act of revolution and I am a revolutionary.

Love this because even in the hardest moments I believe it.

I just got this book in the mail today, and let me tell you, after being blown away by 'Finks' from the same author, I'm convinced this one's going to be another masterpiece. Trust me, you don't want to miss it!

A reader in the US reached out to say she loved my novel and it made her believe in love again. She was inspired to create these candles and scents representing the characters and inspired by the journey the novel took her on. She just sent them to me and they are truly magical.

I am at Charles De Gaule airport. They are preventing me from entering France. I am supposed to speak at the French Senate today. They say the Germans put a 1 year ban on my entry to Europe.

It's World Press Freedom Day. And nobody deserves our respect, solidarity and admiration today more than the brave and determined journalists of Gaza. We would be blind without them and they are the best of us.