الطرف يستحيل يصل إلي مكانة المركز، وهذا النموذج هو ما يصفه سمير أمين بـ"التنمية غير المتكافئة"، فالمسألة ليست أن بيننا وبين الغرب سنوات من التطور، الخلاف ليس تأخراً زمنياً كما يتصور البعض، بقدر ما هو وظيفة بنيوية داخل النظام والسوق العالمي

مدخل لفهم الرأسمالية الطرفية هو تصورها كنمط تاريخى استعماري من الادماج القسري في السوق .

Imagine if they took down the Koumanie; there would be no Shaia rulers in any other country or city except New York lol.

The problem with a book is that you never know what's in it until it's too late.

لخمس سنوات لم ينشر إحسان أي رواية جديدة، حتى زاره السادات يومًا وأثناء الحديث أخبره أن الرئيس مستاءٌ جدًا من توقفه. صُعق من الطلب وشعر بإمعان في إهانته وإذلاله، لكنه ابتلع كل ذلك وطلب من السادات أن يخبر عبد الناصر أنه "سيقرأ روايتي حين أستطيع كتابتها" manassa.news/stories/29217

جون قاتل في الدقيقة الأخيرة القاتلة

Well, I just put my claim in for the Anthropic settlement. I am to share it 50/50 with YUP, who wants me to give them rights to sell my book to fuel LLMs for next to nothing.

My love for em dashes is as old as the hills and as mighty as my inability to make a transition between thoughts literally any other way and I will be damned if I let the clankers take that from me

“The Kiev’s hours were an exception to the local rule. It astonishes people to hear that, when we arrived in the East Village in 1977, there were few restaurants open there past 6 PM.” —Robert Sietsema

"We’re selling vibes, textures. A sunset on the hills in Chianti, riding a bike on an island in Sicily. Imagine us discussing it in parliament with an Italian accent: l’importanza del made in Italy. We use the English expression unironically. It’s aimed at Americans," Francesco Pacifico writes.

The superiority of the Islamic bidet over the achievements of Western culture.

Egypt + 100: Stories From a Century After Tahrir Reviewed by Lisa Anderson www.foreignaffairs.com/reviews/egyp...

Last week, ICE arrested and separated a father and son after a routine check-in. Six-year-old Yuanxin had just enrolled in the first grade at an elementary school in Astoria. Now he's in custody, alone. ICE won't say where. This cruelty serves no one. It must end.

عن عبد العاطى، وصوت البطة المكتوم، والخوف كنمط ومبتغى للحياة manassa.news/stories/28781

The usual semantic defamation campaign, which has been going on for thousands of years, involves an unpleasant anti-Hamitic joke

A @nytimes.com investigation has found that state prison guards have been credibly accused of engaging in such behavior — putting inmates in restraints and then assaulting them — far more often than was previously known.

Sparkling like a festive bauble, Victor Stiebel’s early #1960s cocktail dress deploys a heap of embellishment not just in the form of beadwork at the bodice but a textured cloqué fabric as well. Sold via #AugustaAuction #FashionHistory 🗃️🪡

A secret is not what you want to conceal but something you want to reveal, but cannot. www.thedial.world/articles/new...

What is truly sad in all of this is the American media consistently cheering in the last years of the “new Saudi Arabia”: the concerts, the comedy shows, the lifted driving ban for women. They mistake branding to reform, and even some of them engage shamelessly in the washing and branding effort.

On the recent American-Saudia F ahmednaji.net/2025/11/21/o...

In 2018, two months before his 33rd birthday, Egyptian writer @ahmednaji.bsky.social arrived in the U.S. on a one-way ticket in a journey of exile and self-reinvention. These are excerpts from his journals from that time: www.thedial.world/articles/new...

Make rhizomes my friend, not roots, be water as Bruce Lee once said, map living connections instead of tracing fixed origins.

Egypt +100: Reimagining #Egypt a century after the revolution – Ahmed Naji https://ahmednaji.net/2024/09/08/egypt-100-reimagining-egypt-a-century-after-the-revolution/ #scifi

It was an honor to serve as Chair of the NBCC autobiography award committee this year. Congratulations to the five finalists! Each book is unforgettable. abcnews.go.com/Entertainmen...

Two recent texts that are essential in communicating the various & urgent meanings of creative writing: 1) ‘Texts That Survived the Ashes’: By Ahmed Naji (today on ArabLit) & 2) ‘Writing in Gaza’: by Yousef el-Qedra

We have no power except bushing and moving the lines in a multipoltical environment, while the whole political narrative is collapsing in a body with no organs

The stuff that passes for literture these days...

Depictions of children dying were rife in 19th century literture, mirroring high child mortality levels in real life. “People who want to dismantle a century of resolute public health measures, like vaccination, invite those horrors to return.” [theconversation.com]

what about American Journalist Shreen Abu Akile who was killed by the IDF, what about more than 100 journalists that Israel killed and targeted last year, why we never see anyone ask Bibi Nughty about all of that

And as for god; God is lobster, or a double pincer, a double bind

who does the earth think it is

Thinking back, I realize our complaint wasn’t so much about money per se as about financially privileged vs. less privileged characters. lithub.com/those-folks-...

I’ve been recalling how often, nearly fifty years ago, Ray Carver and I complained about the same issue. At one point in our lives, we lived next to one another in dumpy motel cabins near Iowa City that rented for $10 a night. lithub.com/those-folks-...

Who did this? I hope not AI

Engaged in the time-honored tradition of writing the slideshow for the presentation while waiting for the flight to the presentation

يومن مناسب للاستماع للشهيد الحى رمضان البرنس: open.spotify.com/track/2gsP9L...

Perfect allegory of the UAE feat USA relationship.

I am still amazed every time I see videos of people filming themselves while crying... This is the highest level of narcissism that any living creature can perform... They should sell such videos on OF or something

Naguib Mahfouz at the age of 95 — this was the last picture taken just weeks before he was admitted to the hospital, where he later passed away

في كارثة طريق القاهرة السويس الأخيرة، احتلت التريلا دور البطولة المطلقة، في خطوة تعيد ترسيخ سائقي التريلات بسهولة ضمن فئة "أعداء الشعب"، ه! manassa.news/stories/28090

تتحدث مع نموذج الذكاء الصناعي الموجود على موبايلك، تهلوس له بأيّ أفكار، فيصيغها لك بأسلوب أدونيس، تقرأه فتعجب بعبقريتك، وتذهب للنوم وأنت تحلم بنوبل. megaphone.news/long-read/%D...

I will leave this here as a reminder for the future... كس ام كل التيارات الإسلامية سنة وشيعة معتدلين ومتشددين من دمشق حتى نيويورك

Today's poem , I believe it doesn't need metadata.. If you know... You know

Kurt Markus - Young Man, for Yohji Yamamoto's Y’s for Living, Vicksburg, Mississippi, 1988.

How no one wrote about decolonizing "J. R. R. Tolkien" We need Ebrahim Iron axe to take these clouds

It’s like they’re bleeding the global economy and burning through resources so they can promise AGI “next year.” For what? Who exactly benefits? Or are we just watching billionaires act out the sci-fi novels they read in high school, believing it’s their sacred mission?

In the last three weeks, the answers I received from AI modules, especially ChatGPT, are becoming more and more stupid. I can see they are getting more sophisticated and trying to be smart, but drafting a recommendation letter doesn't require super intelligence.

What an album,  It rises as a grandiose emperor's courtyard, abandoned by humans, but wild animals and gazelles with wide eyes roam through. open.spotify.com/track/1dp0MR...

The Prison and Justice Writing Program announces the 33 winners of the 2025 PEN Prison Writing Awards! The PWAs honor work created in carceral facilities nationwide in the areas of poetry, fiction, nonfiction, and drama. Read the full announcement here: pen.org/press-releas...