Amal Abdullah

“Our longing for something that this world has not been able to fulfill is the greatest evidence for a world beyond this realm.”
― A. Helwa, Secrets of Divine Love: A Spiritual Journey into the Heart of Islam

“You can't, in other words, build a billion dollar empire like Facebook if you're wasting hours every day using a service like Facebook.”
― Cal Newport, Digital Minimalism: Choosing a Focused Life in a Noisy World

“Diabetes is a choice if you forget colonialism, fellas.”
― Leanne Betasamosake Simpson, Noopiming: The Cure for White Ladies

“When we talk about any particular park, or city parks in general, what we are really talking about is how urban space could and should be allocated and used. Entwined within those conversations are presumptions about how human relationships with the other-than-human world can and should be mediated and controlled. The notion that parks are “good for people,” whether they are immense national parks far from cities or small urban parks set amidst dense residential, commercial and industrial activity, rests on highly questionable ideologies that tend to obscure far more than they illuminate. Claims to “diversity” habitually feign a commitment to commonality. When we talk about any particular park, or city parks in general, what we are really talking about is how urban space could and should be allocated and used. Entwined within those conversations are presumptions about how human relationships with the other-than-human world can and should be mediated and controlled. The notion that parks are “good for people,” whether they are immense national parks far from cities or small urban parks set amidst dense residential, commercial and industrial activity, rests on highly questionable ideologies that tend to obscure far more than they illuminate. Claims to “diversity” habitually feign a commitment to commonality without asking after the rationalities that structure the subjects of those commons: who is allowed in and under what conditions? without asking after the rationalities that structure the subjects of those commons: who is allowed in and under what conditions?”
― Matt Hern, On This Patch of Grass: City Parks on Occupied Land