March 2012
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“إذا الشعب يوما أراد الحياة
If, one day, a people desires to live” —The beginning of Abu al-Qasim al-Shabi’s poem that inspired the popular protest chant “ الشعب يريد إسقاط النظام ” or “The people want the fall of the regime.” (via sharquaouia)
If, one day, a people desires to live” —The beginning of Abu al-Qasim al-Shabi’s poem that inspired the popular protest chant “ الشعب يريد إسقاط النظام ” or “The people want the fall of the regime.” (via sharquaouia)
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Fela Kuti - Water Get No Enemy
“The fact that I
am writing to you
in English
already falsifies what I
wanted to tell you.
My subject:
how to explain to you that I
don’t belong to English
though I belong nowhere else” —Gustavo Pérez Firmat, Bilingual Blues: Poems, 1981-1994 (x)
am writing to you
in English
already falsifies what I
wanted to tell you.
My subject:
how to explain to you that I
don’t belong to English
though I belong nowhere else” —Gustavo Pérez Firmat, Bilingual Blues: Poems, 1981-1994 (x)
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She's a very good writer!
writes from the heart, and I think she writes the truth - helps a lot in being a good writer :)
I tweet.. therefore I am (letting you know)
@UzairMohammad
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