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Razan is starting The Wretched of the Earth
“The colonialist bourgeoisie is helped in its work of calming down the natives…”
Jun 15, 2025 09:48AM Add a comment
The Wretched of the Earth

Razan
Razan is starting The Wretched of the Earth
“The colonialist bourgeoisie had hammered into the native's mind the idea of a society of individuals where each person shuts himself up in his own subjectivity, and whose only wealth is individual thought. Now the native who has the opportunity to return to the people during the struggle for freedom will discover the falseness of this theory.”
Jun 14, 2025 04:07AM Add a comment
The Wretched of the Earth

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Razan is starting Black Skin, White Masks
“All those white men, fingering their guns, can't be wrong. I am guilty. I don't know what of, but I know I'm a wretch.” nod to The Wretched of the Earth
Jun 08, 2025 11:13AM Add a comment
Black Skin, White Masks

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Razan is starting Black Skin, White Masks
“But when you take it into your head to express existence, you will very likely encounter nothing but the nonexistent.”
Jun 08, 2025 11:12AM Add a comment
Black Skin, White Masks

Razan
Razan is starting Black Skin, White Masks
“‘When you hear someone insulting the Jews, pay attention; he is talking about you.’ And I believed at the time he was universally right, meaning that I was responsible in my body and soul for the fate reserved for my brother.”
Jun 08, 2025 07:51AM Add a comment
Black Skin, White Masks

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Razan is starting Black Skin, White Masks
“I wanted quite simply to be a man among men.”
Jun 08, 2025 07:21AM Add a comment
Black Skin, White Masks

Razan
Razan is starting Black Skin, White Masks
“Is there in fact any difference between one racism and another? Don't we encounter the same downfall, the same failure of man?”

“Yes, European civilization and its agents of the highest caliber are responsible for colonial racism."
Jun 06, 2025 01:29AM Add a comment
Black Skin, White Masks

Razan
Razan is starting Black Skin, White Masks
“When another desperately tries to prove to me that the black man is as intelligent as any white man, my response is that neither did intelligence save anybody, for if equality among men is proclaimed in the name of intelligence and philosophy, it is also true that these concepts have been used to justily the extermination of man.“
Jun 03, 2025 11:48AM Add a comment
Black Skin, White Masks

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Razan is starting The Palace on the Higher Hill
“I never could have explained to you my awareness that I was born to witness the extinction of my people.”
May 01, 2025 04:11AM Add a comment
The Palace on the Higher Hill

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Razan is starting A Long Walk from Gaza
“I wondered if the Islam that foreigners practiced could be kinder than ours. Because of their more liberated mentality…”
Mar 17, 2025 09:25PM Add a comment
A Long Walk from Gaza

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Razan is starting A Long Walk from Gaza
“I know from experience that I have to wear neutral tones and downplay my femininity if I want to be taken seriously. If I show up wearing lipstick and a pretty dress, how could I possibly claim to be a penniless refugee fleeing certain death?”
Mar 17, 2025 09:09PM Add a comment
A Long Walk from Gaza

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Razan is starting A Long Walk from Gaza
“I know from experience that I have to wear neutral tones and downplay my femininity if 1 want to be taken seriously. If 1 show up wearing lipstick and a pretty dress, how could I possibly claim to be a penniless refugee fleeing certain death?”
Mar 17, 2025 09:08PM Add a comment
A Long Walk from Gaza

Razan
Razan is starting A Long Walk from Gaza
On refugees: “We are different races and different colors but have all come here for the same reason. We all have the same basic desire. To stay alive.”
Mar 17, 2025 09:07PM Add a comment
A Long Walk from Gaza

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Razan is starting The Revolution of 1936-1939 in Palestine
“Ghassan Kanafani paid great attention to the great Revolution of 1936-1939… because he recognized that it was the defeat of that revolution that paved the way for the occurrence of the Palestinian Nakba in 1948.”
Mar 11, 2025 09:52PM Add a comment
The Revolution of 1936-1939 in Palestine

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Razan is starting The Revolution of 1936-1939 in Palestine
“the trinity of enemies - Zionist colonization, the British Mandate, and Arab reactionary forces locally [feudal landowners] and regionally [Arab regimes]“
Mar 11, 2025 09:17AM Add a comment
The Revolution of 1936-1939 in Palestine

Razan
Razan is starting The Revolution of 1936-1939 in Palestine
“a colonizer who cannot accept the humanity of the colonized, because, like the clarity of a polished mirror, it forces him to confront his own inhumanity.” - foreword
Mar 08, 2025 11:01PM Add a comment
The Revolution of 1936-1939 in Palestine

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Razan is starting The Revolution of 1936-1939 in Palestine
“[the 1967 war] also created a new mechanism for imperialist invasion and aggression in the region, marking the first time a United Nations (UN) member state would justify initiating military conflict using the threat of anticipated attack; a tactic indispensable to the imperialist playbook in the region still today.”
Mar 08, 2025 05:28AM Add a comment
The Revolution of 1936-1939 in Palestine

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Razan is starting The Flirtation of Girls / Ghazal el-Banat
“The woman who takes her place in the world without permission is a dangerous thing.”
Feb 26, 2025 06:18AM Add a comment
The Flirtation of Girls / Ghazal el-Banat

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Razan is starting The Flirtation of Girls / Ghazal el-Banat
“Who spectacled us? Why did we watch?”
Feb 26, 2025 04:09AM Add a comment
The Flirtation of Girls / Ghazal el-Banat

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Razan is starting The Flirtation of Girls / Ghazal el-Banat
“But who will hold you in the middle of a civil war? Nobody told you the cost of entering was losing your way back.”
Feb 26, 2025 02:58AM Add a comment
The Flirtation of Girls / Ghazal el-Banat

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Razan is starting Quiet Orient Riot
“she always says that we should stop holding our breath for justice | she says enjoy the little justices instead”
Feb 22, 2025 11:28AM Add a comment
Quiet Orient Riot

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Razan is starting Birthright
“What is the narrative if not the blood it carries? What are you if not the trauma you inherit?”
Feb 14, 2025 06:42AM Add a comment
Birthright

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Razan is starting Fascism and Democracy
“Bourgeois Democracy is not enough, but it is very much better than Fascism, and to work against it is to saw off the branch you are sitting on.”
Feb 09, 2025 05:35AM Add a comment
Fascism and Democracy

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Razan is starting Against Erasure: A Photographic Memory of Palestine Before the Nakba
“The Palestinian question has intentionally been robbed of origins, of roots, rendering us unable to make sense of history.”
Jan 10, 2025 02:05AM Add a comment
Against Erasure: A Photographic Memory of Palestine Before the Nakba

Razan
Razan is starting The Secret Life of Saeed: The Pessoptimist (Interlink World Fiction Series)
“My whole life has been strange, and a strange life can only end strangely.”
Dec 25, 2024 06:43AM Add a comment
The Secret Life of Saeed: The Pessoptimist (Interlink World Fiction Series)

Razan
Razan is starting In the Presence of Absence
“It is neither poetry nor prose, neither earthly nor celestial.”
Dec 04, 2024 07:52AM Add a comment
In the Presence of Absence

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Razan is starting The Book of Disappearance
“An entire people, those who stayed, seem mad when they talk about all that was before. As if what was wasn’t, or it was a world that only existed in their imagination.“
Nov 07, 2024 04:48AM Add a comment
The Book of Disappearance

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Razan is starting The Lucifer Effect: Understanding How Good People Turn Evil
“…my eyes no longer gaze the same on the face of the world.” - Tutsi survivor of Rwandan genocide
Apr 11, 2024 10:57AM Add a comment
The Lucifer Effect: Understanding How Good People Turn Evil

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