🧵A young witness testified he remained in a locked bedroom with his brother’s lifeless body for days as flies began to gather. He was 6 at the time.

✏️: Nicole Hensley/ Houston Chronicle
📸: Jon Shapley/ Houston Chronicle photographer

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a little bit from the gram for eid <3 I luv desi clothes so much nothing beats em tbh

Eid Mubarak friends 🫶🏽 I hope you’re able to find some joy and love on this day, and that all your Ramadan duas are answered.

Praying for all my brothers & sisters who are fighting for & seeking liberation, justice, freedom & peace. May they be rewarded & blessed, Ameen.

They say that tomorrow is Eid, summer is gone, winter has arrived, then New Year, then summer again, Ramadan and Eid, and I stumble every day in a whole world designed from my nightmares.

There are a thousand soldiers and a thousand shells between me and my home.

Both of these numbers are estimates from Israeli authorities.

My first time at Quesabirria Jalisco, I asked Ventura Orozco why his tacos were halal.

He answered with a moving story bout how a Palestinian restaurant took him in when he was at his lowest & how making his own shop halal led him to success.

Read here: chicagotribune.com/2024/04/09/que…

I’m a calculation girly in a moon sighting family/community and I’m stressed

The art of Henna has been practiced in South Asia, Africa & the Middle East for over 5000 years. The botanical name of the henna plant is Lawsonia inermis. A member of the Loosestrife family, henna originally comes from Egypt.
 
For Eid, a thread on henna in Muslim cultures…

The solar eclipse today making everyone realize how nice it actually is to take a break & just go outside & be around a bunch of people & appreciate nature & the world around us, which we ideally should be able to do every day but capitalism has such an insane chokehold on us

They’re all bad but if your govt name is Mohammed like your parents named you after THE PROPHET PBUH and you go by Mo you immediately give me the ick like I’m soooo sorry but I will not call you Mo why would you do that

the beauty of solar eclipse

As Ramadan comes to an end, I wrote about how somber this month has been for Muslim Americans in Michigan as they grieve for Gaza. Eid celebrations have also been cancelled for Wednesday.

My latest for Al Jazeera English

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Everyone doing Eid Wednesday, meanwhile tomorrow Chicago Hilal is going to keep us Tuesday Ramadan folks on edge wondering well into the night if we’re going to have to do Eid Thursday. Our Ummah needs to figure this out the calculation/moonsighting debacle is getting out of hand

Bengali core ❤️🇧🇩💚

Back in my day Eid henna was $5 a side and if you wanted to go past the wrist it’d be $5 more and we used to think that was the biggest deal 😭

You gotta watch the full video!!! Super cool

Solar eclipse timelapse from Lake Travis, captured by Houston Chronicle reporter Nicole Hensley 📰:

Images of the total solar eclipse Monday, April 8, 2024, at Eagle Pass Student Activities Center in Eagle Pass.
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📸: Jon Shapley/Houston Chronicle photographer

a girl and her sentimental necklace vs the world