، منتصب القامة أسفلها بخط كوفي «الهرم فاضي وخوفو راضي».https://aljumhuriya.net/ar/2021/01/27/%d8%a3%d8%b3%d9%88%d8%af-%d8%a7%d9%84%d9%83%d9%86%d9%8a%d8%b3%d8%a9/

I also grew up knowing that people like us don’t have the right to show their anger because the consequences are unbearable and unpredictable. Our anger makes them terrified, and their fear justifies any crimes they commit

الفريق السعودى كارثه. دا انتم ولى العهد هيعلقكم

25,500 BCE: Drowning. 1,500 BCE: Drowning. 1,200 BCE: After observing animals cross the River Nile, human beings attempt the doggy paddle. 1,200 BCE: Drowning.

There is no longer beauty or consolation except in the gaze falling on horror. www.thedial.world/articles/new...

"Now that your depression is back and your new chin has settled, we will begin to correct your more annoying shortcomings with exposure therapy. Exposure therapy can be a helpful tool in making you less of a little bitch."

On the way to the car, I noticed that behind the mosque was a junkyard, filled mostly with broken yachts and boats of various sizes; they all looked sad and dead. Another “only in Vegas” site: a yacht graveyard in the middle of the desert. asnaje.substack.com/p/godshowcom

Instead of one child, we had twins. We entered an inferno that we have yet to come out of. The stress hit us hard. Samira and I turned from lovers to parents burdened with responsibilities, asnaje.substack.com/p/godshowcom

"Peace 1.0™ includes a one-page memorandum, several unresolved technical questions, and a loose promise to figure out what the agreement actually means at a later date."

As a compassionate group of health hobbyists and one doctor of law, we cannot, in good conscience, recommend people stop taking their SSRIs cold turkey, even though the benefits of cold turkey far outweigh the benefits of eating literally anything else. (See: New Food Pyramid.)"

He has worked out a theory: humanity divides into the ordinary, who must obey the law, and the extraordinary few, the Napoleons, who have the right to step over moral law, to spill blood, if their purpose is large enough

My god, to celebrate the deal, they should host a fight between an Iranian fighter and an American one. Then, the Iranians challenge Caesar, and Russell Crowe appears to defend the emperor. But the Iranian wins, and the emperor can do nothing except offer one of his daughters to marry the Ayatollah.

One of my favorite Arabic novels was just translated into English and was published recently Red Like Orange A Novel aucpress.com/9781649035172/

Congratulations to @thedialmag.bsky.social for the publication of their first book, HOW WE SEE IT through @thenewpress.bsky.social! 🔗 Learn more and order your copy: degrootfoundation.org/how-we-see-i...

Jeremy Miranda. Blue snow, night. 2019

المميز التى تلخص مصر

It always puzzles me why the Quran insists that paradise exists in Judaism and Christianity! Was this a misconception already circulating among the Jews and Christians living in the 6th and 7th centuries, or were Muslims unable to conceive a belief system without a paradise-based rewards model?

العجيب أن مفيش جنة لا في اليهودية ولا الاسلام

PRETEND: “We want something that’s never been done.” ACTUAL: “Can you write 'Normal People' again, but with a bisexual love interest who never says ‘bisexual’?”

The demand should not be "decolonize our minds" but "colonizers: own your colonies" ... force the accountability back onto the actors who actually hold power

colonialism without a conscience This is what "decolonization" narrative produced in the last decades

The colonizer got to keep the empire and discard the invoice.

Under classical colonialism, the British in Egypt were accountable — at least in theory and international law — for Egyptian roads, courts, health, and order.

Decolonization is a laundering operation

يجلس عبد الحليم حافظ خلف مكتبه في أحد مشاهد فيلم البنات والصيف (1960)، يكتب رسالة، ويناجي حبيبته "وفي عز الشوق يا حبيبي، وفي عز الليل بكتب لك.. لا، قلبي اللي بيكتب لك، هو اللي بيبعت لك.."؛ أحببت manassa.news/stories/31679

One of my favorite short story writers Nobody Understands History thediasporist.de/nobody-under...

أوناش وعمّال يعمقون الحفرة ويصبون أساسات مبنى ما، استخدم «ما» مرغمًا لأننا حين سألنا عمّا ينوون بناءه صارحنا العمال إنهم لا يعرفون. بل غمغموا بأن ما يحدث «تطوير»، صدقتِ يا ست، فعلًا سوف تلهو بنا الحياة. mada38.appspot.com/www.madamasr...

Sorry Natalie… but beauty is not enough. asnaje.substack.com/p/sorry-nata...

Beauty is fleeting. Beauty is sterile. It doesn’t lead to anything or open any doors. It’s transient…. a hot shot, a desert that seduces you, so it could blow you up the minute after. asnaje.substack.com/p/sorry-nata...

Everything about the success of this novel depends upon Perdie’s manic voice, sleep-deprived, conspiracy-minded, guilt-ridden, love-starved woman who’s losing her mind and her panties over a 26-year-old roofer who thinks he’s an anarcho-Marxist. roncharles.substack.com/p/the-erotic...

International Association for the Fantastic in the Arts - Home iaftfita.wildapricot.org

I think I like Drake's new album, also Mohamed Hamika and Al sarah. Excited for this summer music.

‏الحياه مقرفة جدا يا عبد الجبار والغريبه انك لو رفضتها علشان مقرفه هاتبقى مقرفه اكتر حسن سبانخ فى رائعه عادل امام الأفوكاتو

Cowardly Audacity: The Moral Hypocrisy of the Petrodollar Arab Bourgeoisie asnaje.substack.com/p/cowardly-a...

Very interesting! Why is he walking around with a notebook and pen? I thought his AI agent could serve as his paper notebook. :)

Push some of the futuristic elements aside, and the works presented in this collection also feel like ghost stories. Everyone is haunted by memories of a time when things were different, when the alienation wasn’t so extreme, ahmednaji.net/2025/06/24/r...

I didn’t have any money, but I was hungry. So I ordered their new Vertical AI Sushi Roll, which was named “Ocean Vuong.” That’s when I had to wake up. I couldn’t take such a nightmare any longer. asnaje.substack.com/p/literary-s...

Another sharp piece by @coreypein.bsky.social on Saudi and MBS’s latest adventure. I’m glad he catches the personal dimension: Saudi isn’t just a “dictatorship,” it’s a total monarchy where the king’s whims and dreams become national priorities @thebaffler.com thebaffler.com/salvos/end-g...

“I am not a culture hound, the only thing that matters to me is to seize life and time, understand, and take pleasure asnaje.substack.com/p/the-art-of...

Everyday We Get More Illegal poets.org/poem/everyda...

I am the white milk dripping out of the global Anglophone holes. asnaje.substack.com/p/on-writing...

A time will come when you will confront each other, and maybe then, you won’t need walls or guns. asnaje.substack.com/p/the-bird

When I sent the author an enquiry, she admitted that she had, in fact, invented the character. He was not real and neither were a number of other “facts” in her footnotes. asnaje.substack.com/p/traps-and-...

ما يريده بعض مثقفي الخليج ليس تبادلًا ثقافيًا، بل نوعٌ من التواطؤ الجمالي: أدب يهادن السلطة، ويغرق في التاريخ والفلكلور، ويؤجل أسئلة الحرية والعدالة. manassa.news/stories/3170...

Very very very good story at last issue of @thedriftmag.com by @nickforetek

She was a married woman, so she would use “a friend of mine” when we were out. One time, we arrived in her car, she sighed and told me, “You go first, and I will follow,” to make it up for me. When I kissed her before getting out, she slapped my cheek the way I like.

"مكان مشمس للأشخاص المشبوهين"؛ هذا وصفُ مدينة دبي الإماراتية عند نيك دونوفان almanassa.com/stories/31623

But don’t you love it when a novelist gives enough of a shit to stick their neck out? wasafiri.org/content/the-...

The first time I visited USA was in 2008, covering the Obama election. Someone--who was 8 years old at the time-- asked me if it was a bad time. -Yes, the market crashed, but hope was covering all walls -I would kill for some hope now -I may disagree, I think despair is more useful, especially now