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سيمفونية الموتى

by عباس معروفی

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جواهر القرآن

by Abu Hamid al-Ghazali

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Prophet Song

by Paul Lynch (Goodreads Author)

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Shaimaa’s Notes & Highlights

Book cover for The Ethnic Cleansing of Palestine

The Ethnic Cleansing of Palestine by Ilan Pappé

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more than half of Palestine’s native population, close to 800,000 people, had been uprooted, 531 villages had been destroyed, and eleven urban neighbourhoods emptied of their inhabitants.

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meryem

Inshallah, our brothers and sisters will be free. 💕

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Isnhallah 🤍

Rifqa

by Mohammed El-Kurd

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On Palestine

by Noam Chomsky

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Shaimaa’s Quotes

“Most people are other people. Their thoughts are someone else's opinions, their lives a mimicry, their passions a quotation.”
― Oscar Wilde, De Profundis

tags: identity, opinions

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“أنا خطر؟ هذا الشيء الصغير الذي يسهل كسره الذي هو أنا، المتشبث دوماً بحافات الحياة”
― دوريس ليسينج

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“وكلما توجهت رصاصة لصدره
بدقة تامة،
تمر
،لحسن الحظ
من ثقب قديم في القلب”
― عماد أبو صالح, عجوز تؤلمه الضحكات

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“القارئ المثالي يخلخل النص، ولا يسلّم بكلمات الكاتب. القارئ المثالي هو قارئ تراكمي: كل قراءة لكتاب من الكتب تضفي على السرد طبقة جديدة من الذاكرة”
― Alberto Manguel, A Reader on Reading

tags: قراءة

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