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Дорога В Россию 3.2

by В.Е. Антонова

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شرح حلية طالب العلم

by محمد صالح العثيمين

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وحي القلم

by مصطفى صادق الرافعي

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Selim’s Quotes

“الحقيقة ليست ديموقراطية ، إنما تستند الحجة على دعائمها المنطقية لا على عدد مؤيديها...”
― عادل مصطفى, المغالطات المنطقية

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“Some of the fighters wear the best uniforms, do the best drills, but hardly anyone has seen them fighting. Some you won't even think that they are fighters, but they are the best knights on the battlefield.”
― Zain Hashmi, A Blessed Olive Tree: A Spiritual Journey in Twenty Short Stories

tags: fighters, islam, knights, spirituality, sufi

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“استمراراً لظاهرة التدين الشكلي التى تنتشر هذه الأيام، أصبح معظم سائقي التاكسي يشغّلون القرآن ومع ذلك لا يُشغّلون العداد”
― جلال عامر

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“Reem’s life was one of a lost past, a present she rejected, and a future that is up in the air, like a plane traveling between continents.”
― Louis Yako, Bullets in Envelopes: Iraqi Academics in Exile

tags: decoloniality, displacement, exile, life, reality, refugees, the-human-condition, trapped

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“Straw"

I still keep the last straw I picked

from the harvested wheat field near my home

before the war forced me out…

I have the straw framed

and take it with me everywhere I go…

And when asked about it, I tell people:

It is the straw that broke my back…

[Published on April 7, 2023 on CounterPunch.org]”
― Louis Yako

tags: alienation, arabic-literature, arabic-poetry, displacement, exile, iraq-war, loss, middle-east-conflict, refugees

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نادي شام للقراء هو احد مبادرات موقع " مجتمع ارابيسك " , نادي شام هو محاولة لزرع ثقافة القراءة في المجتمع من خلال قراءة و مناقشة الاعمال الادبية و الرو ...more