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But let the shoe be on the other foot…
Cisco probably violated Middle Eastern and Muslim employees’ civil rights, US agency finds
https://www.theguardian.com/technology/2026/aug/31/cisco-civil-rights-palestine-advocacy-violation
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CW: עזה, G-word
היתה כתבה בחודש שעבר בניו-יורק מגזין על סצינת ה #SWANA בעיר הגדולה:
https://nymag.com/intelligencer/article/swana-new-york.html
תגובות לכתבה (וההסבר למה משתמשים במילת ה-G לתאור המצב בעזה) בגליון האחרון של המגזין:
https://nymag.com/article/comments-week-of-august-24-2026.html
למי שלא מוצא מה לקרוא בליבי, יש את כל המגזינים המעניינים שם (גם בספריות הישראליות). -
שיחה מקומית הוא כנראה האתר הכי חשוב (בעברית) להתעדכן בחדשות החשובות (באמת) מ-SWANA*.
מוחסן נאמג'ו חזר במפתיע לאיראן?! https://shorturl.at/LiCHQ
#SWANA = South West Asia and North Africa
#Iran #MohsenNamjoo -
"Arabised," "Arabisation," "Islamised," and "Islamisation" are terms I will curse you and your entire lineage for. I don't care if those are the terms imperially educated academics use; that's precisely why I will curse you and your entire lineage for pushing your imperial wording into society.
Those terms operate on assumptions of external imposition, of native replacement, of ethnic cleansing, of forced assimilation, treating local ethnic groups as passive objects, passive recipients. Those terms are the European/Western empire projecting its own crimes against humanity onto the region, assuming there was never a native group of people in that region exercising their own agency to adopt the language as their lingua franca and/or practice the religion.
Nobody calls the 1,300+ ethnic groups in Indonesia "Indonesianised." The Republic of Indonesia still records 700+ spoken native languages, yet we can all communicate with each other just fine because we all speak Bahasa Indonesia. I know you're not that stupid to be oblivious to the term "lingua franca." The Indonesian nation-state still records six official religions, despite Muslims being the majority in the country; Indonesia has the biggest Muslim population in the world, and Indonesia has more Christians than the entire Australian continent.
Yet, for some reason, you want ethnic groups native to the SWANA region and the rest of the African continent to think they have been forced to assimilate and convert like Indigenous peoples in North America and Australia, while conveniently forgetting Judaism and Christianity weren't first revealed in Europe, there were already Christians and Jews all over the SWANA and the rest of Africa's regions before refugees from Anatolia and Europe came, and the biggest Muslim population on earth isn't in the African continent or West Asia, and it was never part of the Arab conquest.
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The Best Immigrant released in 2025 set in Belgium
When Flanders' new far-right government orders all residents not born on its soil to be deported, Muna and Jamal risk everything by joining The Best Immigrant, a ruthless reality show where contestants fight for a residence permit.
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Urgent released in 2018 set in Morocco
A young ish man waits to commit suicide from a freeway/motorway bridge.
An older man asks him for his last belongings off camera and receives them.
The younger man fell into a truck of sheep and survived.
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Cairo 678 released in 2010
Unfolds the poignant story of three women and their search for justice from the daily plight of #sexualharassment in Egypt.
[There are cases of Arab women walking freely one moment and then being sexually abused whilst other men shielded that abuse from public view as if they enjoyed viewing the abuse.
As if men in other countries aren't doing the same.
Fuxk us as a gender.]
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Dr. Huda Smitshuijzen AbiFarès | Revealing Recording Reflecting | letterspace nr.66 | 22 APR 2026
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I have just finished setting up pre-orders for my October debut: a Gothic fairytale about a mad scientist vampire obsessed with an Arab violinist on a planet without a sun as a god of nightmares laughs on.
It also includes classical music references and medieval Arabic poetry translations done by me. If you're interested and want to support a #SWANA author I'd really appreciate it:
https://www.amazon.com/dp/B0GXGG2TLY
@bookstodon @medievodons #darkromance #romancelandia #romantasyreads #amreading
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Arabi.gay is a Glitch Mastodon server for Arabs, people from the SWANA region or Arabic speakers (including all dialects) who are LGBTQIA+. Anyone over 18 is welcome to join.
This server has a post size of up to 1000 characters and up to 8 poll options.
:Fediverse: https://arabi.gay
You can find out more at https://arabi.gay/about or contact the admin account @ishraaf
#FeaturedServer #Arabic #LGBTQIA #SWANA #Arab #SouthWestAsia #NorthAfrica #Fediverse #FreeFediverse
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Welche Rolle spielen Mobilität sowie kulturelle u politische Grenzen in der arabischen Welt? Der Artikel des Mediennetzwerks Independent media on the Arab world mit zahlreichen Links schlägt einen Bogen von der Antike bis zu aktuellen Konflikten #MENA #SWANA https://orientxxi.info/Monde-arabe-Frontieres-et-circulations-en-evolution
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Orientalism and the Denial of Muslim Political Agency
Western political discourse often treats Muslims as politically illegible, interpreting Muslim societies through secular or liberal frameworks. This critique examines how Orientalism embedded in Western political thought denies Muslim political agency and frames Islamic resistance as a threat rather than a response to imperial violence.https://wrzky.com/orientalism-and-the-denial-of-muslim-political-agency/
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Fuck me, but I didn't think that the apocalypse would be SUCH an incompetent farce.
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"The hostage-takers, declaring their solidarity with other "oppressed minorities" and declaring their respect for "the special place of women in Islam," released one woman and two African Americans on
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#blackpeople #whitepeople #asian #swana #blackhistory #iranianhistory #blackmastodon
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Heute startet das Tahrir Institute for Middle East Policy #TIMEP
die Reihe „Die arabischen Aufstände 15 Jahre danach: Mehr als nur ein Moment“. Statt nur vom "Scheitern" zu sprechen, sollen Errungenschaften u Verluste in den Blick genommen u Perspektiven entwickelt werden. Ein Projekt zum Mitmachen #MENA #SWANA #ArabUprising https://timep.org/project/the-arab-uprisings-15-years-on-more-than-a-moment/ -
Arabi.gay is a Glitch Mastodon server for Arabs, people from the SWANA region or Arabic speakers (including all dialects) who are LGBTQIA+. Anyone over 18 is welcome to join.
:Fediverse: https://arabi.gay
You can find out more at https://arabi.gay/about or contact the admin account @ishraaf
#FeaturedServer #Arabic #Arab #LGBTQIA #Gay #SWANA #SouthWestAsia #NorthAfrica #العربية #GlitchMastodon #Mastodon #Fediverse #FreeFediverse
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Passend zur Podiumsdiskussion um die #Freiheit der Geschichtswissenschaften beim #Histag25, hat die FU eine Studie zur hohen Selbstzensur und Einschränkungen der Wissenschaftsfreiheit besonders beim wissenschaftlichen Nachwuchs, Postmigrant_innen und in den Wissenschaften zu #SWANA veröffentlicht.
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Gibt es eigentlich fellow Historiker_innen Westasiens und Nordafrikas auf dem #Histag25 oder ein Community Treffen der außereuropäischen Geschichten?
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Rima Sghaier: MENA-based digital rights researcher and feminist tech policy strategist resisting digital authoritarianism.
Technoviolence: Confronting Systematic Injustice
🗓️ September 19–21, 2025 · Berlin
📍 Kunstquartier Bethanien
🎟️disruptionlab.org/technoviolence
#dnl36 #digitalrights #swana -
@wikileaks shared:
"Successfully tested" on Palestinians: That is how [I$raeli] arms and security firms have long been marketing their surveillance technologies
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Arabi.gay is a Glitch Mastodon server for Arabs, people from the SWANA region or Arabic speakers (including all dialects) who are LGBTQIA+. Anyone over 18 is welcome to join.
:Fediverse: https://arabi.gay
You can find out more at https://arabi.gay/about or contact the admin @ishraaf
#FeaturedServer #Arabic #Arab #العربية #SWANA #LGBTQIA #Gay #Lesbian #Trans #Bisexual #Inter #Ace #GlitchMastodon #Glitch #Mastodon #Fediverse #FreeFediverse
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Festival kvír vědomostí
Světova 1, pátek 6. června v 16:00 SELČ -
Arabi.gay is a Glitch Mastodon server for Arabs, people from the SWANA region or Arabic speakers (including all dialects) who are LGBTQIA+. Anyone over 18 is welcome to join.
:Fediverse: https://arabi.gay
You can find out more at https://arabi.gay/about or contact the admin @ishraaf
#FeaturedServer #Arab #Arabic #SWANA #LGBTQIA #Gay #Arabs #NorthAfrica #SouthWestAsia #Glitch #GlitchMastodon #Mastodon #Fediverse #FreeFediverse #العربية