Native Californian, Franco-American-Moroccan, honorary Palestinian, writer & underdog champion. BLM. 🇲🇦 🇵🇸 🇿🇦 Publisher @TheMarkazReview
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Hey friends, join me in LA @holyground.us on the 28th
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In researching my new book, Requiem for Gaza, I discovered how Israel systematically targeted and killed the Palestinian professional class (such as doctors and journalists), an obvious genocidal tactic. This goal is symptomatic of Israel's larger vision for Gaza; to ethnically cleanse its population via genocide.
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I followed this wise man today, and honestly, u should too.
The way he dismantles Israel’s carefully manufactured image and puts into words what so many are afraid to say is an absolute art form.
Every word hits. Go give him a follow @BenMoser123
Talk about roots and identity, we are all a salad of multiple ingredients. Idris Elba traces his African roots youtube.com/shorts/CZw--i2zf… via @YouTube
France has 3,000 independent bookshops, protected by the 1981 loi Lang. Discover book villages, historic shops and the global bookshop revival. magazine.1000libraries.com/b…
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A message to those who still believe that it all started on October 7. No, it didn't. A 'managed genocide', to keep 1.5 million Palestinians "on the edge of life" was in force years before. Read the latest report by Eyal Weizman:
"A military document called ‘Red Lines’ set the minimum number of calories required to sustain Gaza’s population at a level just above the UN definition of hunger (2100 calories a day for men, 1700 for women and a varying amount for children depending on gender and age). The total number of calories was translated into the tonnage required to feed Gaza’s then population of 1.5 million and thus the number of aid trucks allowed into the territory. The same went for megawatts of electricity and litres of fuel and water. What was seen as good behaviour was rewarded by an increase in the amounts coming in, any acts of resistance by the tightening of the siege, like a population-scale version of a Milgram experiment."
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Watch this.
Lubna Speitan, author of the Greens4Palestine motion “Zionism is racism”, spells out the central obscenity of our age – the grotesque inversion whereby the victims of ethnic cleansing, Apartheid and genocide must constantly fend off accusations from their tormentors that it is they who are the racists.
“We as Palestinians are being silenced and gaslit and vilified [as we] witness the annihilation, the cold-blooded murder of our families, of our people… our children burnt with phosphorus, having to endure amputations with no anaesthetic, having their limbs torn and shredded, their bodies burnt by phosphorus, being starved to death … And to have to sit here … and try to bury my feelings so I can eloquently and diplomatically shield my anger, my rage, my anguish that every Palestinian is feeling, is an insult.” /1
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They want you to hate Muslims so you don’t notice as they rob you. Don’t fall for the culture wars. Here's some facts about Muslims the billionaire elites hope you don't know.
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The SWANA region has given the world some of its greatest writers. Now The Markaz Prize is here to discover the next generation. We are looking for bold new voices in short fiction and literary essay/creative nonfiction.
Submit your work to The Markaz Review Literary Prizes before October 30, 2026.
🗓️ Deadline: October 30, 2026
🔗 Learn more and submit your work now: themarkaz.org/literaryprizes…
#SWANALiterature #LiteraryContest #ArabDiasporaWriters #EmergingWriters #IndependentLitMag
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Syrian Lebanese American poet Maya Salameh examines how war and militarization become embedded in the routines and infrastructures of everyday life.
> Discover the poems: bit.ly/inhuman-resources-sel…
#TMR61 #TheMarkazReview #Anthropocene #SWANA #ArabLit #Literature #Poetry #Poems
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Author Karim Kattan weaves Palestinian folklore, mythology, and queer desire into a powerful reimagining of love and liberation.
> Read Gaar Adams’ latest review: bit.ly/the-possibility-of-pa…
#TMRWeekly #TheMarkazReview #SWANAliterature #BookReview #KarimKattan
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Not a shred of evidence that journalists partook in military activities. Zero
But as Western media starts its due diligence, Apartheid Israel escalates disinformation. The army has even a "legitimization cell" fabricating stories to justify genocide. My next report exposes it all
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“As a Palestinian, I am the direct subject of Zionism. I’m an expert on it, in fact, because it is practised on my body”
Mohammed El-Kurd defines Zionism in under 5 minutes. He says everything that needs to be said👇
There are still many Jewish people, and Israelis, who find the call for a "Free Palestine" threatening, as if it suggests the end of Israeli freedom. versobooks.com/blogs/news/50…
Did the end of apartheid in South Africa bring about the loss of freedom for white South Africans? NO, of course not. The reality is analogous.
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For our next theme issue, MIS/TRANSLATION, we invite works in translation but also, especially, about translation.
Send us your meandering translator’s notes, your essays about the craft and its varied guises, your poetry, fiction, visual arts, and any other medium that inspires you. Tell us what gets lost, found, distorted, or invented in the crossing. Let us know how and when you may have mistranslated something, and what unexpected worlds it opened up.
🗓️ Submit by Nov 20.
🔗 Submit now: themarkaz.org/submissions/
#TheMarkazReview #TMR #CallForSubmissions #SubmissionsOpen #SWANAWriters #ArabWriters #WritingCommunity #LitMag #DiasporaWriters #WritingOpportunity #GetPublished #Duosuma #TMR #SWANALiterature #ArabDiasporaWriters #LitMagSubmissions #MiddleEasternLit #IndependentLitMag #Anthropocene
Amigos, shabab, join us tomorrow night at Watermelon Books LA, where I present 3 books in a program entitled "Palestine is the Center of the World" + food and live music with Dimitris Mahlis.
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#URGENT The protests in the United States have intensified. Today, hundreds of thousands of Americans took to the streets to demand an end to funding for Israel, a development that has clearly left Trump sleepless, as evidenced in this recording. Help us spread it, so they don't remove it from X.
#TrumpsteinPedoCoverUp