in everything imposingly beautiful, strength has much to do with the magic

“I look at you and I would rather look at you than all the portraits in the world…” ❤️❤️❤️

Mohamed El Metmari, a Moroccan artist and "artivist" reflects on the inspiration and political realities behind his work. 🔗 Dive into the article: https://bit.ly/visions-of-the-mediterranean-from-morocco #TheMarkazReview #TMR59 #Mediterraneans #Artwork #Artist #MohamedElMetmari

In northern Gaza, we live surrounded by destruction hunger, and fear😔🕊️ My baby girl, not yet 2 weeks old, has a serious heart condition since her first days and urgently needs €200 for treatment🫀💔 Even a small donation or sharing this post could help save her life🙏 Molly Shah ✅ gofund.me/bee000d3a

Appeal🚨 Abood is a mentally disabled boy. He has autism & suffers from seizures & excessive electrical activity. Abood's health is critical in Gaza; he needs treatment&medication We urgently appeal to you to donate him Your donation will be a glimmer of hope for his life chuffed.org/project/1580...

We are collaborating with Launchgood on Nakba Day. Help us raise an additional $20k before 12pm EST and they will give us an additional $5k to our campaign. 6.1K Achieved 13.9K to go. www.launchgood.com/1948

First 9 supporters the love you so much you gave me all love for my heart You are not just rebuilding our life, you arr rebuilding our hearts. Im very lucky having u🫂🫂🫂🫂🫂🫂🫂🫂🫂🫂

The @archaeologyeaa.bsky.social seems to be in a competition with @asor-research.bsky.social as to which one of the two is the most committed to being complicit with Israeli apartheid and genocide. This won't age well.

Bravo, Mayor Mamdani.

These apologists for their genocidal regime masquerading as intellectuals will invent new terms to avoid dealing with reality: Israel is a genocidal regime destroying entire worlds as an end in itself. 3/4

This Jerusalem Post writer managed to write a piece about Khiam and the South Lebanon Army without mentioning that the SLA was an Israeli proxy army that tortured Lebanese and Palestinian prisoners www.jpost.com/israel-news/... 1/4

📜 Filistin / Palestine Newspaper in Arabic, Palestine, 1914

A Palestinian hostage has died today in Israeli concentration camp. His name is Mohammad Ahmad al-Halabi. Israel had held him hostage since 1991. (Note: in December 2023, Israel murder his son Ahmad. A month before that, Israel killed his sister, her husband, and their entire family.)

“However they start, they all end up ignoring democracy and human rights, promoting Arab normalization with Israel while ignoring Palestinian rights, putting pressure on Iran, and waging wars on terror.” carnegieendowment.org/middle-east/...

Today marks the 78th anniversary of the Nakba. In commemoration, we have translated and published 5 testimonies of Nakba survivors originally published in the Spring 1998 issue of Majallat al-Dirasat al-Filastiniyya. Your weekend reading list below: www.palestine-studies.org/en/node/1659...

Kafkaesque absurdities from the Ontario Medical Association. Do not miss this conversation. Institutions continue to embarrass themselves in order to carry water for Israel and its shills. youtu.be/zutR_0dgLek?...

I’m Motaz from G💔z💔 My family and I are suffering from severe abdominal cramps and intestinal distress😭 My wife is pregnant, and my daughter is still very young😭 I need to provide anything that can relieve their pain🙏 Please help ease our pain even a little🙏 https://gofund.me/fb0744e20

A history repeating itself:

What is happening in Gaza, the West Bank, and now Lebanon and Syria will reverberate for generations. We know this, because as Palestinians we've already known this trauma for generations. Free Palestine. Free the Arab world and West Asia from colonialism and hate. 🇵🇸🇱🇧🇸🇾🇮🇶🇮🇷🇪🇬 #TellYourNakbaStory

Awad used to turn on the kerosene stove to block out the noise from these bombs, which frightened his wife and children. I don't think they realized what was going to happen next. #TellYourNakbaStory

In Lebanon, the Mahlis were refugees, not allowed to work because the Lebanese government didn't want them to stay. Awad ended up in Syria while his family stayed behind; Syria had no qualms about Palestinians moving there or working there. #TellYourNakbaStory

Like many others, my family kept the deed to their home, which I still have. I know many families kept the keys; I'm not sure if the Mahlis or Asfours did. #TellYourNakbaStory

I recorded my now 86-year-old father last year telling this story, and he broke down in tears. The trauma of this to a child never goes away. Palestinians exist with epigenetic trauma, bred into us. Leaving Palestine wasn't the end of the trauma either. #TellYourNakbaStory

They deleted my account again😭 Please if you see this post, share and leave even a dot. We have no source of income, and your help is our only lifeline🙏 I’m pregnant and suffer from anemia, and I need many medications urgently😭 I’m your sister, I beg you to help me🙏 https://gofund.me/749f32faa

In a poignant exchange about Israel’s ongoing violent occupation, Hassona says with confidence, “I believe if the war ends in Gaza, it will end everywhere.” sojo.net/articles/cul...

Slapping up stickers in Berlin to promote the 2026 Nakba Day demonstration. The Palestinian “Nakba” (“catastrophe” in Arabic) refers to the mass expulsion of Arabs from British Mandate Palestine during Israel’s creation (1947-49).

I’m NOT excited and I’m NOT thrilled. I’m honestly scared to share this, but I’m not a coward. I have to show you what you helped us create. None of this would have been possible without your help, and we can’t finish it without your support www.launchgood.com/1948 youtu.be/D4qh1FAPEUo

On the eve of Nakba day, the great catastrophe in the history of Palestine in which more than 700,000 people have had to flee from the Israeli colonists almost 80 years ago, you should at the very least support a game that will tell this historical event which the west wants you to forget.

Free Palestine mural seen in Yogyakarta, Indonesia

🇯🇴 Coloring tests are officially underway for the temporary key art for the game starting with Captain Mansaf. They are a superhero parody representing the true might of the Jordanian national dish. Beware their tactical yogurt ladle, as one swing delivers severe dairy-based damage.

If you missed it at New Lines, please read it here. My essay reviewing five books on Syria by @rallaf.bsky.social, Loubna Mrie, Noor Ghazal Aswad, Anand Gopal, and Jerome Drevon and Patrick Haenni. qunfuz.com/2026/05/15/s...

My child is fading before my eyes while the world stays silent. For days I’ve begged for a piece of bread to stop his hunger and a blanket to shield him from the beach cold,but no one answers. Is my son’s life worth nothing? Please, help us survive this nightmare. Donate now!🙏💔😭 tinyurl.com/baraaZ2

On the day they were made to leave their home, my father Anis was three months' shy of his ninth birthday, give or take a day. He remembers thinking it was perhaps a pleasure trip as they'd done the year before. And then realizing they'd never return home again. At eight. #TellYourNakbaStory

My grandfather Awad loaded his wife and their two youngest—my father Anis and his sister Thèrese—into his truck to escape. The other three children—Maurice, Laurice, and Hana—fled with other extended family. Northward, to Beirut. #TellYourNakbaStory

On May 15, 1948, the entirety of my Teta's family (Rafia, my grandmother), not just her children, but her brothers and sisters, who all lived close together in Haifa, were forced to flee their homes. Everyone knew the massacres that had happened. Everyone was terrified. #TellYourNakbaStory

Around that time, various gangs of European Jews were terrorizing Palestinians, killing British Mandate soldiers, and causing havoc. Anis and his family lived near the port of Haifa, and he remembers the sounds of bombs planted by Zionist gangs in the months prior to May 1948. #TellYourNakbaStory

Awad was a truck driver for the Iraq Petroleum Company. He used to make trips between Haifa and Kirkuk, through the desert, trips that would take him away from home for months. In May 1948, he happened to be home between trips. #TellYourNakbaStory

My name is Rafia Mahli. My father's name is Anis. He was born in Haifa, Palestine, in 1939, the fourth of five children born to Rafia (née Asfour) and Awad Shihadeh Mahli. Awad was originally from Sirene, near Nazareth. Rafia had been born and raised in Haifa. #TellYourNakbaStory

I’ll be posting my family’s story with the hashtag #TellYourNakbaStory If your family has one, please join me. And please repost.

Today is Nakba day. Not a day to celebrate, a day to remember. And a day for Palestinians who survived it, and their families, to tell their stories. For us all to be seen, counted. There are SO MANY of us, whatever you’ve been told. Most of what the West has told you about Arabs is a lie.

Israel attempting to export the Nakba to Lebanon:

a blake passage for this bleak period

Ghada Karmi:

We don’t forget:

What is happening in Gaza, the West Bank, and now Lebanon and Syria will reverberate for generations. We know this, because as Palestinians we've already known this trauma for generations. Free Palestine. Free the Arab world and West Asia from colonialism and hate. 🇵🇸🇱🇧🇸🇾🇮🇶🇮🇷🇪🇬 #TellYourNakbaStory

In Lebanon, the Mahlis were refugees, not allowed to work because the Lebanese government didn't want them to stay. Awad ended up in Syria while his family stayed behind; Syria had no qualms about Palestinians moving there or working there. #TellYourNakbaStory

I recorded my now 86-year-old father last year telling this story, and he broke down in tears. The trauma of this to a child never goes away. Palestinians exist with epigenetic trauma, bred into us. Leaving Palestine wasn't the end of the trauma either. #TellYourNakbaStory

On the day they were made to leave their home, my father Anis was three months' shy of his ninth birthday, give or take a day. He remembers thinking it was perhaps a pleasure trip as they'd done the year before. And then realizing they'd never return home again. At eight. #TellYourNakbaStory

Like many others, my family kept the deed to their home, which I still have. I know many families kept the keys; I'm not sure if the Mahlis or Asfours did. #TellYourNakbaStory