5LL #345: Struggle, Solidarity, Justice, Ideology, Poetry
To My Newborn Son: I Am Absent Not Out of Apathy, but Conviction
Mahmoud Khalil, The Guardian
Deen, the grief I feel being apart from you is one drop in a sea of sorrow Palestinian families have drowned in for generations.
Momodou Taal, a Persecuted Pro-Palestine Activist at Cornell, on Black and Palestinian Solidarity
Momodou Taal and Olúfẹ́mi O. Táíwò, Hammer & Hope
“As someone who’s from the African continent and knows what colonialism has done to the continent, I see this as a crystal-clear example.”
Unified Purpose and Total Vision
Piper French, The Drift
For those on the left who oppose the expansion of the carceral state and bemoan top-down encroachments on civil liberties, yet believe in the power of the federal government to defend civil rights, the DOJ has always presented a conundrum.
Ideology Ruled Her Camera
Nihal El Aasar, The Baffler
In 1984, two years after the Israeli invasion of Lebanon, Lebanese director Heiny Srour released her second and only feature film, Leila and the Wolves, which dramatizes the intricate political entanglements between Palestine and Lebanon through the lens of women’s resistance, struggle, and participation in national liberation projects.
Poetry Begins at STOP: Etel Adnan & Arabic
Huda Fakhreddine, Protean
At this moment in time, to belong to the Arabic language and its creative memory, with its long tradition of poets who sang of loss, revenge, and justice, is also to be of Palestine.