Prijedor, 31. maj 1992. da ne zaboravimo

Today I’m immersed in Francesca Albanese’s powerful and deeply moving book. Essential reading.

Magnifica Humanitas is astonishingly good. How does it happen that we have a Pope who is so much wiser, better informed and insightful about technology than any elected politician - internationally - one can name? www.vatican.va/content/leo-...

This is Inea Bushnaq, a folklorist, translator and oral historian. Part of her family comes from Bosnians who settled in places like Tulkarm and Caesarea in 1880s. h/t @meznaqato.bsky.social

Today marks Nakba Day, an annual day of remembrance to commemorate the expulsion of more than 700,000 Palestinians between 1947 and 1949 during the creation of the State of Israel and the year that followed.   Inea is a New Yorker and a Nakba survivor. She shared her story with us.

Dear bluskiers, I have some exciting news to share. In the past few months I was busy restoring an old house in Piana degli Albanesi, Sicily.💙

Sarajevo, 2. maj 1992. da ne zaboravimo

This is powerful and beautiful.

#OTD in 1917, the Albanian writer/dissident Musine Kokalari was born. One of my most rewarding research projects looked at the 1946 trial of this strong, imaginative, and brave human being. Despite the regime’s best efforts, she kept on writing. Happy Birthday Musine Kokalari @teutas.bsky.social

‘Hell is empty and all the devils are here.’ — William Shakespeare

A hauntingly beautiful song, I’ve been listening to since last night. #Gaza💔

Together For Palestine: Lullaby - their single released today, December 12, 2025; featuring Brian Eno, Neneh Cherry and more on vocals www.youtube.com/watch?v=G957...

Please save this, read it, feel it. Shame on all those who do not see our children!!

‘One day, everyone will have always been against this.’

Fanon's Philosophical Legacy: Fanon at 100 | philevents.org/event/show/1...

‘The children are always ours, every single one of them, all over the globe; and I am beginning to suspect that whoever is incapable of recognizing this may be incapable of morality.’ — James Baldwin

#OTD in 1917, the Albanian writer and dissident Musine Kokalari was born. One of my most rewarding research projects was about this strong, imaginative, and brave human being. We can learn a lot from her @teutas.bsky.social

‘It is quite common to hear high officials in Washington and elsewhere speak of changing the map of the Middle East, as if ancient societies and myriad peoples can be shaken up like so many peanuts in a jar.’ — Edward Said

NEW: A study by Yale University and other institutions has found that the Gaza war death toll is likely 41% HIGHER than Palestinian health officials reported. It also found that over 59% of those killed were women, children and people over the age of 65. www.reuters.com/world/middle...

December in Piana degli Albanesi, Sicily.❤️

What shatters our hearts is not just the Israeli massacres, the genocide tearing through our lives—it is the quiet, insidious ache of being made to feel invisible, unworthy, less than human. It’s the unspoken weight of knowing that, to the world, our suffering is a faint whisper, not a scream.

Happy New Year my wonderful followers and friends! I wish to see more solidarity and compassion this year. Stay safe, strong and inspired!

‘Good morning Gaza. Get up. Gather your one arm. The one you have left. Good morning Palestinian flesh on the tables of ministers and presidents. You’re a stone of solidarity and balance among your executioners’— Mahmoud Darwish

No words. For all the devastation Gaza has faced, North Gaza is a completely other level. I've always been hesitant to ever compare things directly to the Holocaust, but everything I'm hearing reminds me of the stories my family had passed down as well as what Jews have learned about our past.

Good morning from Piana degli Albanesi!

Truly astounding book. I don’t think I have read anything close to the beauty of the boy’s description of rain drops and water in a novel. I guess my reading it proves death sells tho I had read Palace of Dreams.

Easter Sunday in my beloved Piana degli Albanesi, Sicily. ❤️🇦🇱

‘Because of Us’ #Gaza 💔

At Al-Shifa hospital Gaza: We currently have around 600 inpatients who need medical care. We have around 37 to 40 premature babies. We have around 17 other patients in the ICU. We have around 600 postoperative admitted patients which need medical care. We need a ceasefire.

‘The war will end The leaders will shake hands The old woman will keep waiting for her martyred son That girl will wait for her beloved husband And those children will wait for their hero father I don’t know who sold our homeland But I saw who paid the price.’ -Mahmoud Darwish

It’s John Berger’s birthday today. I miss him more than ever in this realm. As Gaza is being obliterated with seismic bombs tonight, I’m reading his essay ‘Undefeated Despair’.

I haven’t felt this helpless and heartbroken since the wars in Bosnia and Kosovo.

“The Palestinians are the only nation in the world that feels with certainty that today is better than what the days ahead will hold. Tomorrow always heralds a worse situation.”— Mahmoud Darwish (1941-2008)

UN human rights experts: “We remain convinced that the Palestinian people are at grave risk of genocide. The time for action is now. Israel’s allies also bear responsibility and must act now to prevent its disastrous course of action.“

Some words of wisdom from the 🐐 in these dark times youtu.be/6xpE2-IGPy8?...

‘I wish children didn't die. I wish they would be temporarily elevated to the skies until the war ends. Then they would return home safe, and when their parents would ask them: "where were you?", they would say: "we were playing in the clouds".’ 💔 —Ghassan Kanafani (1936-1972)

“Not a single phone in Gaza can be reached right now. Israel completely cut off all communications to Gaza. No internet, no landlines. This is a total blackout. Every person you know from Gaza has completely lost contact with their loved ones. We know what comes next.” - Hanna Alshaikh

As tensions in the Western Balkans continue to rise, this 2005 review has new resonance. Kosovo’s quest for recognition of its independence, most importantly by Serbia, is still viewed with suspicion in the EU. The persisting colonial gaze may explain why. kosovotwopointzero.com/en/who-gets-...

Their ethnic cleansing plans laid out: An Israeli think tank with ties to Netanyahu issued a report last week promoting the "unique and rare opportunity" for the “relocation and final settlement of the entire Gaza population."

Doctors in Gaza are heroes of our time.

“Narratives can make us understand. Photographs do something else: they haunt us.” — Susan Sontag Regarding the Pain of Others

pure grief. www.freep.com/story/news/l...

a bosnian friend who’s an author doing a residency in germany posted this this morning. and every bosnian person I know has shared it. because we all feel it. (sharing with her permission, and I asked if she wanted me to remove her name because she’s been getting threats for days & she said no)

12,000 people are sheltering at the Al Quds hospital in Gaza. Israel informed them to vacate. To where? What about the sick and intubated? We do not have the capacity to endure another massacre.

With great sadness we mourn one of the most talented Gaza feminist poet and novelist, Heba Abu Nada. Her novel named, “Oxygen is not for the dead”. She write yesterday,”If we die, know that we are content and steadfast, and convey on our behalf that we are people of truth."…….. Oh gosh Heba

I came across this poem by Mahmoud Darwish

Some days, I really struggle to understand how we carry on, going about our days, as if there isn’t vast suffering in the world. So many people’s lives are torn apart, across categories, geographies. Each one a deep sadness.