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3 years

The suffering of the Palestinians was never up for debate. No ceasefire for this. The West, the UN nor Israel would never be stupid enough to agree to the impossible. There is no such thing as a ceasefire during an occupation. Each day is violence and aggression.

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For over a hundred years Persian poet and scientist Omar Khayyam was the most read poet in the West. Stripped of Islam, he was reinterpreted as a 'free-thinking scientist'. Now its Rumi's turn. Will the West never learn? #rumiwasMuslim

Reading Rumi in the West: The burden of Coleman Barks - Zirrar

A few months ago, I wrote an article titled The Erasure of Islam from the works of Rumi from English translations. This was in response to countless queries I was receiving to recommend a reliable...

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Did you know the Muslims pioneered modern astronomy? In the golden age of Islam, observatories in Spain, Baghdad, Istanbul, Isfahan, Samarkand and Maragheh mapped the cosmos, and corrected ancient understanding of the astronomy, especially Ptolemy.

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We ask how the Holocaust, Apartheid, Srebrenica, Darfur and countless other wars could have happ in the last 100 years. Yet the systematic ethnic cleansing and genocide of the Palestinian ppl is happening live in 4k, with victim testimonials provided daily. This is how.

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4 years

@SadiqKhan Thank you Sadiq, that's one slave owner gone from London. Can you now do the same for John Cass (outside Metropolitan University), Hans Sloane (by Sloane Sq), Thomas Guy (Guys Hospital), William Beckford (London Guildhall), Robert Clayton (St Thomas Hospital)?

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What's the most beautiful element of a mosque? It has to be the 'Muqarna', check out my latest photo-essay at @MiddleEastEye for an indepth view

Muqarnas: Honeycomb architecture that touches the heavens

The centuries-old masterpieces of ornamented vaulting can be found in historical buildings and places of worship across the Middle East and beyond

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3 years

Tomorrow, Israel, an illegal colonial settlement state will rule whether #SheikhJarrah 's indigenous Palestinian residents should be expelled for not paying rent. Imagine being asked to pay rent to your occupier. This isn't a legal dispute, it's ethnic cleansing.

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4 years

According to Google #colemanbarks was a Sufi Mystic Poet alongside Hafez and Shams Tabrizi. Does he deserve this title? I think its time we remove Coleman Barks from all our bookshelves. #rumiwasmuslim

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After a month of bombing Palestine, the white world now wants to celebrate the birth of Jesus, a Palestinian, also tortured and humiliated by their ancestors (the Romans). Somethings never change.

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The next PM of Israel says he never wants to see a Palestinian state. Finally an honest confession of Israel's policies of expansionism & ethnic cleansing. So can we now stop asking Palestinians to recognise Israel's right to existence? If Israel wants all Palestinians wiped out?

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Did you know the poetry attributed to Omar Khayyam became so popular in Europe in the 19th/20th century fan clubs opened up. Members included Arthur Conan Doyle (author of Sherlock Holmes), Thomas hardy ('Far from the Madding Crowd'), T.S Elliot and Mark Twain?

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Dear @NatGeo its been 6 weeks. Still waiting for your reply to how this racist photo was chosen as a winner by you.

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Muhammad Iqbal died 83 years ago today. What's his legacy today? And is he even relevant? Check out my article on TRT

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Over 80 years after his death, Muhammad Iqbal’s poetry and prose continue to inspire generations of Muslims around the globe Opinion | @Zirrar_

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The unique thing about Israel is just how comprehensively it commits war crimes. Condemned by the UNHCR in 45 resolutions (more than the rest of the world combined), the UN General Assembly has also passed 17 resolutions against Israell, again more than any country in the world.

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The first drug stores in the world were in Baghdad in 754 where Muslim pharmacists sold over 2,000 medicinal herbs&formulations.Created under Caliph Al-Mansur, Baghdad itself was finally completed in 762, with the cities original name being "Madinat al-Islam"; the "city of peace"

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2 years

Israel has had 74 years of total freedom to commit war crimes and just mentioning the word boycott can get you in trouble. Why?

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4 years

If you want to read Persian poetry in English, this is what to avoid and what to buy. And yes, the hole goes deeper than #colemanbarks . He's just one bad apple in a century old orientalist well.

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Dear @nytimes it would be amazing to see you represent Palestinians when they are also alive. Whilst the faces of dead children make a great front page, we see how you play both sides masterfully for your fair and balanced tactic.Shame on you. #FreePalestine

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An Israeli courts ruling holds as much water and legitimacy as the English courts during its empire. Imagine the Queen expelling Aboriginals out of their home for not paying rent. This isn't an Airbnb legal dispute. It's ethnic cleansing! #SheikhJarrah

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4 years

Did you know the word gibberish came from the name of 8th century Persian alchemist, Jabir ibn Hayyan, whose name was Latinised as Geber. Gibberish referenced to the incomprehensible technical jargon of Jabir the Europeans couldn't understand.

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Want example after example of how #colemanbarks Rumi translations are secularising and sexualising the works of the very Muslim Rumi? #rumiwasmuslim @PersianPoetics

Reading Rumi - The Erasure of Islam from Rumi - Zirrar

Poetry is dead, at least in the West. The Poetry genre barely moves any books each year but one man is an exception - Rumi. But if you have read Rumi in English, chances are high you have read an...

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Why ceasefire now? 1. Israel's genocidal quota was met. 2. It tested it's new weapons 3. It scared it's own population enough to justify Palestinian oppression 4. it knows the threshold for public outrage over mass murder. #ApartheidIsrael #palestine

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This form of Persian poetry (written 800 years earlier) inspired writers, artists and thinkers to liberate their minds from the confines of European puritanism. Giving birth to the arts and crafts movement, as well as the movements of romanticism and the Pre-Raphaelites.

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4 years

Did you know the poetry attributed to Omar Khayyam became so popular in Europe in the 19th/20th century fan clubs opened up. Members included Arthur Conan Doyle (author of Sherlock Holmes), Thomas hardy ('Far from the Madding Crowd'), T.S Elliot and Mark Twain?

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2 days ago Givara Budeiri, a Palestinian reporter, born in Jerusalem was violently arrested by the Israeli police. The 3 henchmen were Argentinan, Ukrainian and Ethiopian. The audacity of colonial occupation is staggering. No other people would accept this injustice.

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The Israeli war crimes against Palestinians have been meticulously documented by every international human rights organisation. So no one can ever say 'we didn't know'. Thank you @amnesty @UNHumanright @btselem

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Did you know the oldest continually operated university in the world is in Fes, Morocco? Founded in 859 by Fatima al-Fihri, it also boasts the oldest library in the world with a Quran from the 9th century and earliest collection of Hadith.

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Never in the history has the oppressed ever gone so far to critically analyse his own oppression and defend the oppressor. Studying 2500 yrs of history, 124yrs of political idealogy & 73 yrs of understanding his emotional trauma to ensure the oppressor motives arent misunderstood

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Did you know the Ottoman Sultan Suleyman the Magnificent sent at least three fleets to India to defend its Muslims against the Portuguese invaders? First fleet landed in Diu (Gujrat) in 1531 with 2,000 Ottoman soldiers. Result? An Ottoman victory.

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Astrolabe was created by Greeks, but it was perfected by islamic scientists, particularly women. Mariam al-Astrulabi was a Syrian astrolabe maker from the 10th century. She's known for perfecting the art of making these which calculated the altitude of celestial bodies in the sky

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Did you know Iqbal's book 'Payam-e-Mashriq' is closely connected to Goethe's 'West-ostlicher Diwan' (West-Eastern Diwan) which itself was greatly inspired by the Diwan of Hafiz? Goethe had looked to the East for spiritual salvation for It's obsession with materialism.

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2 years

In the past week, the West has punished Russia through financial sanctions, political & cultural boycotts, closure of airspace and providing direct advanced military support to Ukrainian resistance as well as a targeted global anti-russian media campaign. All this in just 7 days.

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2 years

Israel doesn't 'accidently' kill journalists. It does with clear intention. The same way it kills Palestinian poets, thinkers and leaders. This is how it attempts to crush Palestinian civil society and it's resistance to the Israel brutal occupation.

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3 years

We give more nuance and critical analysis to our own oppression and occupation to ensure our oppressor isn't offended by our pain. Our tradition is justice and love. And then tell me with a straight face, we're anti-Semitic and barbarians? #FreePalestine

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2 years

Israel is escalating it's attacks on Palestinians in Al-Aqsa and around the occupied territories. It must be Ramadan!

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4 years

Do you know what the Persian 'Ghazal' is? and how great Persian poets used it to celebrate God and human love? Tune into my latest podcast with @PersianPoetics

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19 years ago the US did what Russia is trying to do today. Except the US killed 1 million Iraqis, carpet bombed entire cities (Inc. Hospitals and schools), destroyed all civil infrastructure and got away with it all. Let's hope Russia doesn't do the same.

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4 years

You're part of the establishment that has for centuries been a display case for looting, pillaging and cultural genocide. You're evidence of that very slavery and colonial domination that has led to these riots and unrest. Yet, you want to be 'our' friend in these trying times?

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1/4 ‘The British Museum stands in solidarity with the Black community throughout the world. Black Lives Matter.’ – Director Hartwig Fischer Read Hartwig’s thoughts and response here:

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European violence against our children, whether from the Dutch, Belgian, English or French, in Congo, Indonesia, India or Algeria- why is it so utterly vile and inhumane?

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4 years

"Truly, God loves those who turn unto Him in repentance and loves those who purify themselves (Quran 2:222)" Purify yourself physically (stay clean!) and reflect on Allah spiritually to purify your soul in these trying times.

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1 year

@Internalstrife @BaytAlFann @bahathmag It appears a lot of content posted on this accounts is taken directly from the work of other authors and creatives without permission and without giving credit.

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4 years

In the 12th century Ibn Rushd (Averroës), and the Jewish physician and thinker Moses Maimonides produced outstanding work in medicine. Moses went on to become the physician for Saladin.Both men reflect the strong ties between philosophy and medicine during the Islamic golden age.

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Colonialism is peculiar in that it is unashamedly vocal of its violent racism. Israelis are marching in Jerusalem chanting 'Death to Arabs' draped in Israeli flags. This is what colonialism backed ethnic cleansing looks like & they say we're anti-Semitic & violent. Madness.

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We’ve all just witnessed systemic extermination of an indigenous people by Europeans. Again. But this time in full view of Western citizenry. Incredible disinformation, defamation and misinformation. Turns out genocide is still cool. Never change Europe. #palestine

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Did you know that Islam entered into India and China during the life of the Prophet Muhammad pbuh? and within 79 years it had reached Europe /Spain. An orphan born in Makkah changed the face of Europe and the world. #Islamineurope

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A tale of two Rumis – of the East and of the West via @AJEnglish

A tale of two Rumis – of the East and of the West

Exactly 750 years after death, Jalaluddin Mohammad Rumi remains a mystery. Was he a Muslim scholar or spiritual pundit?

www.aljazeera.com

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The past month us seen attacks on Al-Aqsa, bombing of Gaza, hundreds of civilians killed (67 children), destruction of civil infrastructure,mass arrests & now theft of property and ethnic cleansing in West Bank. Just in one month. That's Palestine if you weren't paying attention.

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Israel is stealing land,butchering children,shooting women,bulldozing homes,burning olive groves, bombing schools,raising hospitals, erasing culture,denying history, enforcing apartheid whilst ethnically cleansing. It's all recorded&the International community is fully complicit.

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Condemned by all mainstream twlever Shia scholars, the movie 'Lady of Heaven' attempts to do nothing but fuel religious divisions and mistrust. If the writer wasn't a lunatic extremist, one might consider watching. #ladyofheaven

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Stop saying Israel broke the ceasefire. They didn't. The ceasefire was between Israel and Hamas. Not all of the Palestinian Occupied Territories. This is why Israel and the West said Hamas v Palestinians for the past 2 weeks.

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4 years

@HiraAmir20 @PersianPoetics Elif Shafak is an abomination. She made up these 40 rules of love whilst pushing a pseudo Sufism narrative, stripping any religious doctrine of Rumi and Tabriz. Avoid!

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4 years

"Coffeehouses of Isfahan", a conversation with Farshid Emami, a historian of Islamic Art and Architecture about the arrival of coffee into Persia and the influence it had on royal and common society. #historyofcoffee

Coffeehouses Of Isfahan with Farshid Emami

Join me and the renowned Persian historian Farshid Emami, as we discuss the importance of coffee to Persian royal society, common culture and its impact on architecture in Isfahan.

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3 years

A ceasefire just reflects a temporary halt to airstrikes. Israel continues to kill children in the Occupied West Bank, attack and prevent access to Islam's holiest site (Al-Aqsa) and steal more Palestinian land with illegal 'settlements'. #gaza #palestine

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Honest work is important. We cannot support and overlook the theft of other people's authorship. @BaytAlFann need to apologise, delete the plagiarised content and work on creating original content.

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@still_reading @BaytAlFann @Internalstrife Unfortunately the full list of articles they have plagiarised grows. They really are just poorly imitating others work.

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Muslims entered Spain by the 8th century and by the 10th century majority of the Muslim population was natives, not Arabs. These Spanish Muslims came to be known as Muwalladun. Mastering Arabic, they dominated positions of influence. #Islamineurope

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While Europe was in an intellectual coma, the Islamic empire which stretched from Moorish Spain, to Egypt and even China, was entering their “Golden Age". These 800 years of Islamic brilliance have conveniently been forgotten by Europe.

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#rumiwasmuslim

Persian Poetry in English

@PersianPoetics

4 years

Thread: The Orientalizing of Moulana Rumi Many of you may be familiar with the 'Rumi quotes' that circulate the internet. What if I told you the vast majority of them are fake and they are part of a project to secularize Rumi? This isn't a whatsapp conspiracy.

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Pick up the excellent English translations by Jawid Mojaddedi if you want a truer understanding. Available on Amazon #rumi #readingrumi #jawidmojaddedi

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To Israel, a Palestinian's very existence is an act of resistance. His language, culture, food and history are threats to be wiped. The Israel identity then is founded upon denying Palestinian identity. It's basic orientalism. #freepalastine

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5 years

Erm what is this? Did they need human accessories? Vile racist reductionist display of humanity.

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5 years

If looks could kill... #SaraAliKhan is an absolute stunner in this new still from our latest cover shoot. Watch this space for more exclusive pictures from the shoot.

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During the 'golden age' of the European colonial era, anyone that resisted European dominance was hung, shot or exiled - in full view of the natives. Especially thinkers and leaders. Remember Israel is a European colonial power in 2022. #ShireenAbuAqleh

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@FoodPhotoAward how did a photo of a starving children, some partly naked, holding empty food plates win a 'Food Photo Award'? Were you being ironic or did you figure 'poverty porn' get more likes?

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In the year 652, just 20 years after the death of the Prophet Muhammad pbuh, Sicily came under Muslim rule. It didn't last long, but the Muslims returned in 831 to create the Emirate of Sicily. This time they stayed 260 years. #Islamineurope

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Watch it as it happens! @natgeo removing evidence of their racist orientalist practises!. Rather then accept responsibility for their actions they are amending content without any notices to the public. Unfortunately for them I screenshot things for fun.

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Dear @NatGeo how about you stop the orientalist, reductionist and racist promotion of the black and brown people in your photos? That would be a great gift for Black History Month.

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@NatGeo

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In honor of Black History Month, look back at a collection giving women photographers of African descent a platform to tell their stories

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Avoid any translations by Coleman Barks if you want a truthful reading of Rumi. #rumi #truerumi #colemanbarks

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Dear @NatGeo our friends at @fstoppers are exposing the story I've been asking you to address for months. Stop awarding racist photography. #thiscurryistoospicy

Has National Geographic Awarded a Prize to a Racist Photograph? |

National Geographic is under increasing pressure to strip the prize it awarded to a photograph portraying residents of Varanasi, India sleeping on their rooftops. Those voicing their complaints to

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1 year

We need more Muslim creative accounts, but not those that steal others content. @BaytAlFann - Please stop plagiarising! Unfollowed.

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1 year

Hi @BaytAlFann , how does one knowingly or unknowingly plagiarise from at least ten (I stopped at ten) different sources in a single thread about rice, a day after promising to stop plagiarising? See thread 🧵 1/n Source:

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Conversely, the Mughal Emperor Akbar allied with the Persian Safavids (and even the Portuguese) to attack the Ottomans in Yemen. Why? Apparently Akbar wanted the title of Caliph for himself, and so began to call himself the Caliph of all the Muslims in India.

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@PersianPoetics @relicUA He's taking older translations and then re-imagining them to fit with his view of how Rumi should be. His poetry isn't even a translation, it's a brand new generous interpretation.

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@rumiwasmuslim @PersianPoetics Who was Rumi? And why do we keep getting it wrong? #rumithemusical #rumiwasmuslim

TRT World

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“[The musical] removes the complexity and depth of Rumi’s inner struggle, glazing over his spiritual crisis - which is the crux of his life story - and instead delivers a play that dramatises the domestic troubles of his household” Opinion | @Zirrar_

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We need to talk about Rumi, and why Islam has been taken out of his poetry by English translations

Reading Rumi - The Erasure of Islam from Rumi - Zirrar

Poetry is dead, at least in the West. The Poetry genre barely moves any books each year but one man is an exception - Rumi. But if you have read Rumi in English, chances are high you have read an...

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How modern Western institutions like @NatGeo can still perpetuate racist orientalist views through their photography in this age. Thanks.

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@NatGeo

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❓What current scientific mystery do you think will be solved in our lifetime?💬

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The desert nomad Arab went from herding sheep to gazing at stars. In the 4th century House of Wisdom in Baghdad, our homeboy Al-Khwarizmi created the first major work of astronomy. In the 9th century, al-Farghani measured the circumference of the earth. Boo!

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Tipu Sultan, the ruler of Mysore sought Ottoman help. In 1776 he sent a mission with 700 men, riches and abundant gifts to Istanbul. Unfortunately for him the Ottomans were fighting the Russians and couldnt help.

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@HannanDeVos @Youssef_Kobo What's the safety situation on the ground? Is it safe for a brown male like me?

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What's going on here? The white orientalist masters would be proud of the racism inherited.

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If looks could kill... #SaraAliKhan is an absolute stunner in this new still from our latest cover shoot. Watch this space for more exclusive pictures from the shoot.

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Good morning @natgeo So how about removing that award from Yasmin Mund? Pretty please.

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"We can not fight for our rights and our history as well as future until we are armed with weapons of criticism and dedicated consciousness." Edward Said

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It fits in directly with the fascination with our pain - faces and our condition - animals in our own zoo.

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@kemsawyer @pulitzercenter @larrycprice Exploitative work by Mr Price. Particularly the India coal mine series comes across not just as typical poverty porn images nameless "props" but also perpetuates victimhood. Not a single image of exploiters / enablers of the system. How does such work get funded as journalism?

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Want to see Africa that isn't all vodoo, body tattoos and droughts? Want to see the human wealth, the unique culture and characteristics of a people not defined by white photographers?

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@NatGeo Also, expect a few letters to your editor from "poor brown people" from around the world - Who knew we had a voice . A copy is attached as a courtesy.

Dear National Geographic.pdf

drive.google.com

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How does modern Orientalism defines the native? Like this

Orientalist Travel Photography: 'Creating' the Native

The Orient and Islam have a kind of extra real, phenomenologically reduced status that puts them out of reach of everyone except the Western expert.

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#rumiwasmuslim @rumiwasmuslim @PersianPoetics

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WHICH #RUMI ARE YOU READING? @ZaraChoudharyX & @Zirrar_ talk to poet @BarakaBlue about the life, work & legacy of Jalal al-Din Rumi. They discuss controversy re English translations of his poetry & the claim that Islam has deliberately been ‘erased’

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Around the 6th century Europe entered what’s known as the Dark Ages. From 500 AD to the 13th century Europe witnessed suppression of intellectual thought and scholarship because it was seen as a conflict to the religious views of the church. Guess who didn't have this problem?..

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The main global site had the "curry" wording until recently - they have removed it but still not replied to my letters which first highlighted this. Talk about rewriting history.

Chirag Wakaskar

@chiragwakaskar

5 years

The lack of editorial ethics by @NatGeo editors / photographer lies in the fact that they have removed "Can you spot the curry?" from the caption on the website (however the @NatGeoFrance website still has it) and so do the dozens of other publications which did a story @Zirrar_

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Dear @guardian , once we're done with @natgeo we're coming for you. Be wise and remove all instances of this already. #thiscurryistoospicy

Chirag Wakaskar

@chiragwakaskar

5 years

@Zirrar_ @guardian And the above is not the only instance of this orientalist racist photograph on @guardian this is another story with the same photograph 👇

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5 years

$260 per print? Jeez that's an expensive curry

Ritesh Uttamchandani

@photowallah

5 years

@suchitrav @NatGeo @Zirrar_ Let’s make the curry a bit spicier, shall we?

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5 years

@natgeo have gone full nuclear and made the caption to their winning photo as vanilla as they can - good. Now what about the photograph itself? Can we delete, apologise and promise to behave next time?

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4 years

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4 years

Today I'm launching a 10 min weekly podcast on news, culture and poetry. Welcome to the Weekly Gruel. Where details will be missed, but you'll have some idea of what I'm saying.

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5 years

Why do white people still continue this garbage? "once you get past their fearsome display, they reveal themselves to be warm and effectionate people" - thank you.

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@Zirrar_

2 years

@HannanDeVos @Youssef_Kobo Sounds dangerous. Exciting. I love war/poverty tourism!

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5 years

@chiragwakaskar One white saviour called out, infinite more to go

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4 years

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@intlibecosoc @dialectichiphop The Chinese in fact imported Persian scientists to their capitals to learn from Islamic scientists, in order to build observatories and design the Chinese calendar system! Mayans, highly independent and unique in their method!

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