"If aphorisms feel at home in Egypt, it is because this land cultivated them early, preserved them stubbornly, and kept them close to daily life." To get essays like this straight to your inbox and support our writers, subscribe to Hidden Cities. hiddencities.substack.com

“Egypt has always trusted in the afterlife of words—that brief counsel, well-shaped, can outlast stone.” A lyrical journey by @ysl.bsky.social from ancient Egypt to medieval Cairo, finding comfort and clarity in the humble aphorism. hiddencities.substack.com/p/the-ancien...

Farm life 🇨🇴 youtube.com/shorts/H0Yvm... #nature #photography #Colombia #animals

Delighted to share my piece on The Ancient, Enduring Wisdom of Egyptian Aphorisms Hidden Cities is a new publication: part travelogue, part global news brief— a magazine that illuminates the world Launched by @freddydek hiddencities.substack.com/p/the-ancien... #egypt #wisdom #history #quotes

Delighted to share my piece on The Ancient, Enduring Wisdom of Egyptian Aphorisms Hidden Cities is a new publication: part travelogue, part global news brief— a magazine that illuminates the world Launched by @freddydek hiddencities.substack.com/p/the-ancien... #egypt #wisdom #history #quotes

To mate with the sublime, sublimate 💨 www.youtube.com/@Yahia.Labab... #poetry #writing #art

The path to #Peace is littered with dead selves. youtu.be/AB7m25OWZWA?... #quotes #video

may my heart always be open to little birds who are the secrets of living ee cummings

This body is not me…

Kind note from Poet Laureate of the Netherlands, Babs Franklin Gons 🇳🇱 ‘I took the liberty to translate your #poetry to #Dutch and will read it tonight, when we'll have a sleep strike for #Gaza and #Lebanon here in #Amsterdam darajapress.com/publication/... #palestine #Israel

Heart to heart conversation with lifelong activist & my publisher, Firoze Manji of Daraja Press about #Palestine, the role of #poetry & keeping hope alive ✨ www.youtube.com/live/5vre9Z3...

Who goes to dine must take his Feast Or find the Banquet mean—The Table is not laid without Till it is laid within. Emily Dickinson lithub.com/the-striking... #poetry @lithub.com.web.brid.gy

Book Club 📚 'No Neutrals There' by Jeff Schuhrke reveals how US labor has never been neutral on Palestine, aiding Israel with funds, influence, and political pressure 👇

'No Neutrals There' is out TODAY. I hope it's useful for understanding how US unions have been deeply involved in Palestine for the past 100+ years & why today's unionists have a special responsibility to aid the cause of Palestinian freedom. www.haymarketbooks.org/books/2608-n...

No Neutrals There by @jeffschuhrke.bsky.social “is both an indictment and a summons, calling on workers — and on all of us — to recognise that the struggle for Palestine is inseparable from the struggle for justice.” @ysl.bsky.social

The Jinn bring me their poems, I pick and choose. — Imrul al-Qais, legendary, pre-Islamic poet-prince.

#Poetry always begins and ends with listening. W.S. Merwin

Mystics & Heretics 🔥 youtu.be/AB7m25OWZWA?...

Franz Kafka in conversation with Gustav Janouch: 'In #books there is such little life, but in life, O, so many books.'

" #Poetry is just the evidence of life. If your life is burning well, poetry is just the ash." — Leonard Cohen

"True #art can issue only from a purely anonymous center." — Rilke, Letters

"The practice of purifying one’s soul, of living virtuously, has tremendous impacts upon the ethics of the surrounding society." — A Q&A with Prof. Hossein Nasr on #Sufism #Rumi

To preoccupy ourselves with the shortcomings of the religious is to lose sight of the marvels of #religion.

Our direction is often determined through collisions... youtu.be/AB7m25OWZWA?... #poetry #writing #video #quotes

excerpt by 92 year old poet, Jayanta Mahapatra #poetry

During a Genocide 🇵🇸 youtu.be/_DbMYcfqCRc?... #Gaza #Palestine #booksky #poetry

"And if they ask you about #Gaza, tell them: In it there is a martyr nursed by a martyr photographed by a martyr sent off by a martyr and prayed for by a martyr." — Mahmoud Darwish #Palestine

My latest piece, a book review, for @thenewarab.bsky.social , on the price of neutrality in the face of #genocide 🇵🇸 “No Neutrals There: How #USA Labor Built #Israel and Ignored #Palestine.” 🔗 www.newarab.com/features/no-... #news #booksky #Gaza

It's especially humbling, when we meet our younger selves in others (zealous, ruthless, idealistic, cynical, oblivious) All chances to flex the 'ole compassion muscle, if we dare

"We know little, but that we must trust in what is difficult is a certainty that will never abandon us; it is good to be solitary, for solitude is difficult; that something is difficult must be one more reason for us to do it." — Rilke

During a Genocide 🇵🇸 youtu.be/_DbMYcfqCRc?... #Gaza #Palestine #booksky #poetry

In Those Years …the great dark birds of history screamed and plunged into our personal weather They were headed somewhere else but their beaks and pinions drove along the shore, through the rags of fog where we stood, saying I — Adrienne Rich #Video #reading: youtube.com/shorts/nsaQt... #poetry

Hardly any words left, just this photo of indomitable innocence among the rubble of #Gaza 🇵🇸 Born superheroes ✨ #Palestine #photography

#art #Egyptian modernist #artist Abdel Hadi al-Gazzar (1925-1966)

The twin souls of #Nietzsche and Oscar #Wilde: www.fomitepress.com/on-the-contr... #booksky #philosophy #literature #quotes

#art #Egyptian modernist #artist Abdel Hadi al-Gazzar (1925-1966)

From Syrian poet and refugee, Osama Alomar Full review of his book, The Teeth of the Comb: worldliteraturetoday.org/2017/may/tee... via @worldlittoday.bsky.social #booksky #writing #poetry

“In time when evil stems from the fact that men belittle and hate each other, the artist’s mission is to extol gentleness, trust, friendship, and in this way to remind hardened and desperate men that purity, tender feelings and simple equality do or can still exist.” — Georges Sand

" #Art means nothing if it simply decorates the dinner table of the power which holds it hostage." —Adrienne Rich

#Art: yaninruibal.com

#Reading #Poetry in #Texas youtu.be/KSTALhlYUN8

The #artist is always the servant & is perpetually trying to pay for the gift that has been given to him as if by a miracle. Modern man, however, does not want to make any sacrifice, even though true affirmation of the self can only be expressed in sacrifice. —Andrei Tarkovsky, Sculpting in Time

Why do we turn to #poetry, in crises? #Reading from "Learning to #Pray" youtu.be/BaBH8CgyqKA #video #booksky #writing

‘At the center of our being [is] a point untouched by illusion, a point of pure truth... is inaccessible to the fantasies of our own mind and brutalities of our will... I have no program for this seeing. It is only given.' — Thomas Merton

🇵🇸 Palestinian voices worth knowing: youtube.com/shorts/w7Sp1... #youtube #video #palestine #gaza #Israel

“Too long I've owed you this apology For the apparently unmeaning sorrow You were afflicted with in those old days. But it was of the essence of the trial You shouldn't understand it at the time.” ― Robert Frost, God's speech to Job #booksky #poetry

The Palestinian Gandhi 🇵🇸 youtu.be/dBhEhxly00M?... #Palestine #Gaza #news

A Prayer for Guidance by Thomas Merton : youtube.com/shorts/sn1F9... #meditation #quotes

Mother of the martyr, oil on canvas, 1983 #art by #slimanmansour #palestine #freepalestine #سليمان_منصور 🇵🇸

how to give yourself to this world so worthy of rescue #poetry #writing