Madonna Kalousian 🦉🍉🥄

🎉 IT’S OUT 🎉 My article “Between Invertible and Invertebrate Histories: The Evolution of Rachid Boudjedra’s Snail-Man” has been published by Alif: Journal of Comparative Poetics. Huge thank you to @izzaziad who edited this special issue 🙌 jstor.org/stable/2700273…

I couldn’t hold back my emotions… People were collapsing from hunger in Al-Shifa Hospital’s courtyard, as the bodies of dozens killed by Israeli forces arrived—targeted while trying to get a bag of flour.

I am the artist Marah Khaled, and I want to exchange all my paintings for just one kilo of flour chuffed.org/project/136467

“A love letter to Damascus,” Adnan Samman

Israel bombs Damascus.

FREEDOM TO READ — The Markaz Review’s Summer Double Issue — is live. In an age of banned books and broken silences, what does it really mean to claim the freedom to read? 👉 Read Now: bit.ly/tmr-52-freedom… Cover Art: Tammam Azzam "New York" from the Bon Voyage Series, 2013

Thinking about Dr Hussam Abu Safiyya #brismes2025

“It wasn’t my decision… it wasn’t a choice, but a forced one—imposed by hunger and the cries of my children that tore my heart apart. ‘Daddy, we’re hungry’… Their words were like knives piercing my chest, and I had no flour, no morsel to ease their hunger. I didn’t want to go,…

Arabic voice-over of Trump always makes him sound three times more unhinged. Consider for example: "من انتِ؟ ما اسمكِ؟ عندما ابتعد عنكم، سوف اوقفها.. ال CNN حثالة و أخبارهم قمامة و طيارونا قامو بعملهم بغياب القمر."

I wonder what it feels like to condemn a terrorist attack in one country while enabling an ongoing genocide in another.

Suicide attack inside a church in #Damascus now. Never a dull moment for Syria. [photos by Milad Fadel]

Neighbour’s cat judging my entire existence 👀

Or any US president ever, past and future.

This is how I envision the funeral of humanity to look like.

This account is run by Avichay Adraee.

By the way, Israel is bulldozing down houses and razing agricultural lands in the south of Syria on a daily basis.

The region is heading towards a nuclear war and @syriadramaa still has me blocked 🫠

At least 10 were killed in Israel; over 80 died of the flu in Iran.

My Damascus rose doesn’t flower every year, but when she does, she’s the prettiest of them all 🥹💖

In Israel’s war against children today, the Israeli occupation army in Syria’s Quneitra decides to raid a school and detain two children for allegedly filming soldiers.

I have zero emotional and mental capacity left to watch Armenia-Azerbaijan too 🫠