drive.google.com/drive/folders/… Link to download all the banned books #FREEKASHMIR

"The buying of more books than one can read is nothing less than the soul reaching toward infinity." A. Edward Newton

#Syria: in a rare move, the Red Crescent released a statement to counter a claim that its teams obstructed aid heading to #Suwayda. The Red Crescent clarified that the Mesopotamia Association - which operates in #SDF-held areas - refused an inspection of the supplies intended

To read someone’s thoughts from a hundred years ago and feel understood that’s the quiet miracle of literature.

New on #OCIANA! A remarkable text carved 'when the reign of Dahr caused difficulty', i.e., when deified death ravaged the land. This is our first attestation of Dahr as a divine title in the pre-Islamic epigraphic record! Likely an epithet of Mot 'Death' or Manay 'Fate'

“[Tolkien] could turn a lecture room into a mead hall in which he was the bard and we were the feasting, listening guests.” - J.M. Stewart, former pupil of Professor Tolkien

Mansfield said she was "terrified". But she did not change her mind. Dr Clark also does not regret attending the protest. Imagining herself in prison at 18 is "a big thing," but "if people who are in their 80s can do it, then I can do it," Ali said. france24.com/en/live-news/2…

🚨BREAKING: We’ve obtained documents showing ALL our passport photos are being secretly searched in a police facial recognition database A national ID system has been built by the backdoor - without the public or parliament’s consent We’re taking action telegraph.co.uk/politics/2025/…

👁️Your passport photo = police mugshot The Government has secretly been allowing police to search MILLIONS of UK passport photos with Orwellian facial recognition technology. This is an historic breach of the right to privacy in Britain that must end. #StopFacialRecognition

We're bringing Medieval manuscripts back! The Tamburn Illuminated Gospels giveaway is open for a few more days. You could win this handbound Insular style illuminated book of the Gospels in Latin and English! rafflecreator.com/pages/93383/ce…

Any guesses on what 'Amo is doing?

#Syria: the 4 top Regime figures who are currently under investigation by the Justice Ministry ahead of their trials. x.com/Step_Agency/st…

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In solidarity with Haya Adam from soasliberatedzone, I promised I would 🔥 my Masters certificate from SOAS University of London if she was expelled. They have chosen to unfairly punish her, so I don’t want to be associated with a uni that markets decoloniality while punishing those who practice it.

Calla Walsh, who is the epitome of everything wrong with privileged white leftists, is now attacking Mahmoud Khalil, a Palestinian activist who's literally being targeted by the state department... All because he's not a fan of Assad slaughtering innocent Syrians like she is.

#Syria: the judge seen in the video investigating top Regime figures, including Assad's former Mufti, is Tawfiq Aliwi. He's an investigative judge from #Raqqa and he defected in 2012 after refusing to apply Assad's "Anti-Terrorism Law". x.com/UrgentNewsSyri…

هذا هو اليوم الذي انتظرناه .. هذه مشاعري التي لم أستطع إلا البوح بها.. وأنت ماذا شعرت عندما رأيت كبار المجرمين مذلولين بمواجهة الجرائم التي ارتكبوها في قبضة العدالة أمام قاضي سوري 🇸🇾؟

Lebanon and Syria are back to their political equilibrium.

Not to invalidate big sis’ experiences but there is something to say about how as a racialised subject you almost feel compelled to (knowingly or not) narrate experiences in ways that preemptively justify themselves to the white gaze e.g. prefacing critiques of gendered violence

New blog has been set up by Kerr, defending the science of hadith verification against secular western historians' scepticism. I've thoroughly enjoyed the first two posts am looking forward to the rest. (Link in next tweet.)