Another perspective…

“Every empire, however, tells itself and the world that it is unlike all other empires, that its mission is not to plunder and control but to educate and liberate.” — Edward Said

I was invited to participate in an international #poetry festival in #India, Sansaar, yet was unable to attend because my visa was denied… I am grateful that my poems found their way there, virtually. Video is below: youtu.be/JEMqK5jw0pk #booksky #writingcommunity

Why Does USA Work For Israel?

Recall Trump repeatedly saying that Obama would “start a war with #Iran because he has absolutely no ability to negotiate”

Even though 70% of Americans did not want this, U.S. and Israel attacked #Iran today, as multiple explosions resounded in #Tehran — a major assault that threatens a broader regional conflict … www.nytimes.com/live/2026/02... #news

“The beauty of a great sunset is the transcendent penetrating into the immanent.” — Hamza Yusuf

I was invited to participate in an international #poetry festival in #India, Sansaar, yet was unable to attend because my visa was denied… I am grateful that my poems found their way there, virtually. Video is below: youtu.be/JEMqK5jw0pk #booksky #writingcommunity

“Public opinions exists only where there are no ideas.” — Oscar Wilde ✨ “To say it again. Public opinions, private laziness.” — Nietzsche www.fomitepress.com/on-the-contr... #Philosophy #booksky #writingcommunity @philosophynow.bsky.social

“The beauty of a great sunset is the transcendent penetrating into the immanent.” — Hamza Yusuf

"Santa Fe Spring", Copyright © 2026, Trey Xander. #flowers #spring #bloom #blossom #plants #nature #pink #photography #photographersofbluesky #blueskyphotographer #artforhire #commissions #beauty #landscapephotography

We explained our Revelations in various ways to those who give thanks. Quran 7:49

Breaking news: #Trump orders government to stop using @anthropicai.bsky.social after Pentagon standoff: nl.nytimes.com/f/newsletter... #ai #tech #news

The garment of God consciousness is the best of all garments. Quran 7:26

Have a blessed Friday✨ and a joyful weekend 🤲🏼

'Hell begins with a grumbling mood, always complaining, always blaming others… but you are still distinct from it. You may even criticize it in yourself and wish you could stop it. But there may come a day when you can no longer.' – C.S. Lewis, The Great Divorce #Art by Agostino Arrivabene

“Hate-hardened heart, O heart of iron iron is iron till it is rust. There never was a war that was not inward; I must fight till I have conquered in myself what causes war… Beauty is everlasting and dust is for a time. — Marianne Moore, “In Distrust of Merits” (1944) #poetry

“O small dust of the earth that walks so arrogantly…” — Marianne Moore, In Distrust of Merits

"The cure for anything is salt water - sweat, tears, or the sea." Isak Dinesen

Speaking in Sayings www.youtube.com/@Yahia.Labab... #booksky #poetry #politics

“Public opinions exists only where there are no ideas.” — Oscar Wilde ✨ “To say it again. Public opinions, private laziness.” — Nietzsche www.fomitepress.com/on-the-contr... #Philosophy #booksky #writingcommunity @philosophynow.bsky.social

#Art Flu Ko

Baby pigeons (11 days young) #photography

🍉 The watermelons are rotten  — cut open and bone dry — from bleeding in the streets 🇵🇸 youtube.com/shorts/VS0jk... #Gaza #Palestine #poetry

'Hell begins with a grumbling mood, always complaining, always blaming others… but you are still distinct from it. You may even criticize it in yourself and wish you could stop it. But there may come a day when you can no longer.' – C.S. Lewis, The Great Divorce #Art by Agostino Arrivabene

“Fields are much more sacred than the sanctuaries!” ― Mehmet Murat ildan #photography Kent Burgess

'It was within the power of the creative artist to build a bridge between two worlds… It is our task to imprint this temporary, perishable earth into ourselves, so deeply, so painfully and passionately, that its essence can rise again, invisible, inside of us.' #Rilke

'Yes, you must be here, and also, millions of light-years away...' ✨ The mystics, I like… I like their… their illogicality… their burning illogicality – the flame… the flame… which consumes all our filthy logic.' —Samuel Beckett, in conversation with Charles Juliet ( #Art: Luis Jimenez)

Personalities suffer accidents; characters endure fate. —Harold Bloom * The time is now past when accidents could befall me; and what could not fall to my lot which would not already be mine own! —Nietzsche

Taco night 🌮 #food #foodie #recipe

'If the only prayer you ever say in your entire life is Thank You, that would suffice.' — Meister Eckhart #art Maryam Lamei

My short interview with journalist and author Carla Power (If the Oceans Were Ink) is now available from Islamic Society of North America (ISNA). We speak about by curiosity may be the most endangered resource in a fearful, polarized world. islamichorizons.net/listening-an... #Islam #Ramadan

'Step back that you may be approached' — St. Augustine

Meal idea: Salmon covered with ground pepper & a full lime, topped with 3 tablespoons of pesto, sprinkled with pistachio & ringed by broccoli (drizzle olive oil). And, because I'd carved up a pineapple, slices got in there, too. #food #foodie #photography #health #recipe

Shipping signed copies of my #books www.amazon.com/author/yahia... #booksky #writingcommunity #poetry

Who tastes, knows. #Sufi #saying

🇵🇸 #Palestine #art by Abdelrahim Farajallah

"Write about this man who, drop by drop, squeezes the slave's blood out of himself until he wakes one day to find the blood of a real human being--not a slave's--coursing through his veins." — Chekhov

Head full of quandaries— morality and mortality on the mind—I sat down and did something I’ve not done in ages... I created a collage #art #therapy

Four traps: Ingratitude in good fortune. Impatience in ill fortune. Discontent with one's lot. Hesitation in serving their fellows. — 'Abdullah Ansari #Sufi #Ramadan #Islam

“We must sit on the rim of the well of darkness and fish for fallen light with patience.” ✨ Hay que sentarse a la orilla del pozo de la sombra y pescar de la sombra y pescar luz caída con paciencia. — Pablo Neruda #Art Christian Schloe youtu.be/H78xD-Ad1fw?... #poetry #Spanish

Whoever seizes a piece of land …

Karma #art

What Tragedy Teaches Us youtube.com/shorts/vUsh3... #poetry #news #Spirituality #Gaza #Palestine

🕊️ Who Is Innocent? youtube.com/shorts/vIWq1... #Israel #Palestine #news #poetry #History #Spirituality

Mahmoud Darwish’s muse Tamar Ben Ami, "Rita," has died at 79 in Berlin. Their impossible love story inspired some of his most celebrated poems. "Between Rita and my eyes ... is a rifle Whoever knows Rita, becomes devoted prays to a god in those honey-colored eyes" #Palestine #Israel #poetry

‪#art‬ by Palestinian artist, Sliman Mansour, "Temporary Escape," (هروب مؤقت), oil on canvas, 2018.

‘We sent you Muhammad the Scripture with the truth, confirming the Scriptures that came before it’ — Quran 5:48

‘We sent Jesus, son of Mary, in their footsteps to confirm the Torah that had been sent before him: We gave him the Gospel with guidance, light and confirmation of the Torah already revealed’ — Quran 5:46

‘We revealed the Torah with guidance and light’ — Quran 5:44