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“On Munich and Whiteness” by Alex Shams

Alex Shams is an Iranian-American journalist and a PhD student of Anthropology at the University of Chicago.
He is an editor-in-chief of Ajam Media Collective (AjamMC.com), a platform focused on culture and society throughout Iran as well as Central and South Asia, and he also regularly blogs on his Facebook page.
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Why did the Munich killer beg us to see him as German?
Around and around we go.
Yesterday, an 18-year old man named David Ali Sonboly, born and raised in Germany with an Iranian immigrant background, carried out a shooting in Munich during which he yelled “I Am German!”, complained about being bullied for years, reportedly made disparaging remarks about Turks, and ended up killing 10 people including himself.
The killer was obsessed with mass shootings, and his room was full of documents exploring school shootings. Police also said there was an “obvious link between the…
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الكاتبة الفلسطينية نادية حرحش توقّع بالقاهرة روايتها “في ظلال الرجال” | مصريات
Hosted a “D” Centre for Studies and Research in Cairo signing ceremony and discuss the novel “in the shadows of men,” published by Dar Ibn Rushd, the Palestinian writer and professor of Islamic studies at the University of Jerusalem Nadia Harhash.
And witnessed the signing ceremony and discuss the novel presence of Dr Yasser Ayoub, editor of 7 days, the Syrian and Jihad Saad artist and publisher Bisan aggression, a large number of intellectuals and artists of Palestinians and Syrians expatiate Egypt.
Initially Nadia Harhash emphasized the fact that the writing was liberated from many of the constraints and concerns, and opened her many windows on the world again and helped in the treatment of a lot of pain and aches accumulated in lipstick and body.
Harhash added that this novel does not reflect Vsltinih woman trip, but as far as expressing Arab women as a whole, Syria or Egypt or Sudan Gulf or Lebanese or Moroccan or Tunisian or Libyan.
استضاف مركز “دال” للدراسات والابحاث بالقاهرة حفل توقيع ومناقشة رواية “في ظلال الرجال” الصادرة عن دار ابن رشد، للكاتبة الفلسطينية وأستاذة الدراسات الإسلامية بجامعة القدس نادية حرحش. وشهد حفل توقيع ومناقشة الرواية حضور الدكتور ياسر أيوب رئيس تحرير مجلة 7 أيام، والفنان السوري جهاد سعد والناشرة بيسان عدوان، وعدد كبير من المثقفين والمبدعين الفلسطينين والسوريين المقمين بمصر. في البداية أكدت نادية حرحش على كون الكتابة حررتها من كثير من القيود والهواجس، وفتحت لها العديد من النوافذ على العالم من جديد وساعدتها في علاج الكثير من الألم والأوجاع المتراكمة في الروج والجسد. وأضافت حرحش أن هذه الرواية لا تعبر عن رحلة امرأة فسلطينية بل بقدر ما تعبر عن المرأة العربية ككل مصرية أو سورية أو خليجية أو سودانية أو لبنانية أو مغربية أو تونسية او ليبية. الرواية عبارة عن رحلة في عمق امرأة لها الكثير من التوقعات وخيبات الأمل، الهروب من الأحلام والكوابيس، التحديات والتطلعات، نقاط القوة والضعف، كما أن بها أيضا الكثير من المناورات بين الأمومة والأنوثة و التضحية والعطاء، الحب والرحمة، الغضب والانتقام.. إنها حياة النضال وعدم التوقف عن محاولات الصمود، رواية عن الباقين على قيد الحياة أو المحاولين البقاء على قيد الحياة في مختلف الطبقات، وعلى حافة السلطة الأبوية والاحتلال، إنها حياة امرأة تمضي بعيدا عن الرجال أو ظلال الرجال. ومن جانبه قال الفنان السوري جهاد سعد إن رواية “في ظلال الرجال” أشبه بسيرة ذاتية وتاريخية للمرأة في الشرق، حيث تجمع الكاتبة بين الحاضر والماضي والواقع والتاريخ. وأضاف “جهاد” الرواية تطرح العديد من الأسئلة المسكوت عنها وتقتحم تابوهات كثيرة عن الطفولة والذكريات والحب والزواج وعلاقتنا بإجسادنا وعن الإيمان والإتجار بالدين وعن النضال ضد المحتل والثورة التي تبدأ من داخل الإنسان، قبل أن تتحقق في السياق العام.
Source: الكاتبة الفلسطينية نادية حرحش توقّع بالقاهرة روايتها “في ظلال الرجال” | مصريات
Honoring Our Ancestors Newsletter
How NYers Endured Unbearable Summers Before A.C.: Gothamist
During a heat wave in 1934, the Brooklyn Daily Eagle reported:15,000 persons spent last night on the beach at Coney Island and several thousand more sought relief from the heat in Brooklyn parks and playgrounds. Additional thousands slept on roof tops and fire escapes in the Brownsville, Williamsburg and other crowded sections of Brooklyn. In Manhattan, many slept on the grass in Central Park and on the open piers in the East River.
Source: How NYers Endured Unbearable Summers Before A.C.: Gothamist
“Onward Christian Soldiers?”
right on – err – target. Charlie Manson wannabes.
After the horrible and deadly attack on the police in Dallas and then on the police in Baton Rouge there has been a wealth of accusations by some on the Right mostly those without a brain, that all that was made possible by the #Black Lives Matter movement….and some have even stated that there is a hatred and a desire to kill all police….
Usually it is the same people that hate anyone with a brown skin….but make sure to note that they are not racists……blog after blog have tried to convince everyone who will try and read their crap that this is systematic of the black mentality….But I cannot blame them for I realize that they are incapable of having more than one thought at a time….much less writing about something else.
But have any of these “well informed” morons mentioned this incident? Or these people?

Nine people federal…
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Melania Trump: Astrophysicist calculates there was one in 87 billion chance speech was not plagiarised – ABC News (Australian Broadcasting Corporation)
So never mind [Trump’s campaign director Paul] Manafort’s claim that there are a limited number of words in the English language,” he wrote.”For Melania Trump to have gotten all 14 of those phrases, in the same order as Michelle Obama did at the 2008 Democratic National Convention, is a chance of 1 in 87 billion — about 7,000 times less likely than winning [Canada’s] Lotto 6/49.”Highly unlikely.”
All the Different Things the Trump Campaign Said About Melania Trump’s Speech – The New York Times – She did not write the speech so blame it on someone else and “no foul.” ROTFLMAO!
“I’m sure what happened is the person who was helping write this plucked something in there, an unfortunate oversight, and certainly Melania didn’t have anything to do with it.” — Sam Clovis, a Trump campaign co-chairman, in an MSNBC interview_______“If the staff did not do their job properly, and didn’t vet the speech properly based on the larger picture and narrative that she put together, then there should be accountability. No question.” Corey Lewandowski, Mr. Trump’s former campaign manager
Source: All the Different Things the Trump Campaign Said About Melania Trump’s Speech – The New York Times
Three Men Raped A 16 Year Old Girl From Tripoli… But They Won’t Go To Jail
A Separate State of Mind | A Blog by Elie Fares
Welcome to the land of where the value of women is contingent upon the flap of skin resting at the precipice of their vagina, where their rights are fluctuating based on the mood of the men that enable them and where our girls are taught, from the moment they open their eyes, that them being the second sex does not invoke otherness but rather rank.
A few days ago, in the Northern city that I love, a 16 year old girl was a victim of the Lebanese condition three times.
She was the victim of this sex but no sex country, where the level of repression we instill in our people is so high that some find the only way to release is to violate other people’s sanctity. That girl was violated by three men in one of Tripoli’s suburban areas.
Her ordeal did not end there, however. Following the…
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Memories… a difficult walk
Nostalgia has a way of consuming us all. Whether we long for happiness or better times… we often long for a time when we perceived things to be better.
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