Hosam Aboul-Ela
@bluehasooma.bsky.social
writer-translator-critic
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Mamdani is going to bring him that snowglobe that plays "Memories" from CATS and we're going to get government grocery stores nationwide
November 20, 2025 at 2:05 AM
Mamdani is going to bring him that snowglobe that plays "Memories" from CATS and we're going to get government grocery stores nationwide
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no quote about the US political system has ever gone harder than this one
November 10, 2025 at 10:02 PM
no quote about the US political system has ever gone harder than this one
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Islamophobes on the other site keep sending me this AI of the Statue of Liberty, not knowing they were being purists not alarmists.
November 6, 2025 at 7:13 PM
Islamophobes on the other site keep sending me this AI of the Statue of Liberty, not knowing they were being purists not alarmists.
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Actual causes of death in the USA compared to populist media coverage ...
November 2, 2025 at 9:28 AM
Actual causes of death in the USA compared to populist media coverage ...
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Saddams bathroom.
Tikrit, Iraq. 2004.
Tikrit, Iraq. 2004.
November 1, 2025 at 10:34 AM
Saddams bathroom.
Tikrit, Iraq. 2004.
Tikrit, Iraq. 2004.
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Posting a photo of Ceausescu’s bathroom for no apparent reason.
October 31, 2025 at 11:31 PM
Posting a photo of Ceausescu’s bathroom for no apparent reason.
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this is what will happen if mamdani makes bus rides free
October 25, 2025 at 7:24 AM
this is what will happen if mamdani makes bus rides free
it's funny when lit scholars say this issue is not ours
Two Prize-winning Palestinian Authors Freed from Israeli Prisons
Two award-winning Palestinian authors serving life sentences in Israeli prisons were released on October 13 as part of the exchange for Israeli captives held in Gaza.
Two award-winning Palestinian authors serving life sentences in Israeli prisons were released on October 13 as part of the exchange for Israeli captives held in Gaza.
Two Prize-winning Palestinian Authors Freed from Israeli Prisons
Two award-winning Palestinian authors serving life sentences in Israeli prisons were released on October 13 as part of the exchange for Israeli captives held in Gaza.
arablit.org
October 15, 2025 at 10:46 AM
it's funny when lit scholars say this issue is not ours
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New on BULAQ: The Life & Work of Inji Efflatoun
In this episode of BULAQ, co-hosts Ursula Lindsey and M Lynx Qualey speak to Ahmed Gobba and Avery Gonzales, co-translators of Efflatoun’s 1993 memoir, The Memoir of Inji Efflatoun: From Childhood to Prison.
In this episode of BULAQ, co-hosts Ursula Lindsey and M Lynx Qualey speak to Ahmed Gobba and Avery Gonzales, co-translators of Efflatoun’s 1993 memoir, The Memoir of Inji Efflatoun: From Childhood to Prison.
New on BULAQ: The Life & Work of Inji Efflatoun
In this episode of BULAQ, co-hosts Ursula Lindsey and M Lynx Qualey speak to Ahmed Gobba and Avery Gonzales, co-translators of Efflatoun’s 1993 memoir, The Memoir of Inji Efflatoun: From Childhood to Prison.
arablit.org
September 28, 2025 at 11:40 AM
New on BULAQ: The Life & Work of Inji Efflatoun
In this episode of BULAQ, co-hosts Ursula Lindsey and M Lynx Qualey speak to Ahmed Gobba and Avery Gonzales, co-translators of Efflatoun’s 1993 memoir, The Memoir of Inji Efflatoun: From Childhood to Prison.
In this episode of BULAQ, co-hosts Ursula Lindsey and M Lynx Qualey speak to Ahmed Gobba and Avery Gonzales, co-translators of Efflatoun’s 1993 memoir, The Memoir of Inji Efflatoun: From Childhood to Prison.
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Good news to your end your week ✊ Dr. Thomas Alter is set to be reinstated at Texas State University after an initial court victory.
Statement from @texasaaup.bsky.social President Dr. Brian Evans and Texas AFT President @zephcapo.bsky.social 👇
www.texasaft.org/membership/h...
Statement from @texasaaup.bsky.social President Dr. Brian Evans and Texas AFT President @zephcapo.bsky.social 👇
www.texasaft.org/membership/h...
Judge’s Order Clears Way for Fired Texas State University Professor’s Reinstatement
A Union of Professionals
www.texasaft.org
September 27, 2025 at 2:35 AM
Good news to your end your week ✊ Dr. Thomas Alter is set to be reinstated at Texas State University after an initial court victory.
Statement from @texasaaup.bsky.social President Dr. Brian Evans and Texas AFT President @zephcapo.bsky.social 👇
www.texasaft.org/membership/h...
Statement from @texasaaup.bsky.social President Dr. Brian Evans and Texas AFT President @zephcapo.bsky.social 👇
www.texasaft.org/membership/h...
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This week, 100% of profits from anything sold on or through ArabLit go to 19-year-old poet Marah Mohamed Al-Khattab, who writes, "In Gaza, dreams are interrupted before they can take shape. Here, we do not grow into adulthood—we are thrown into it by force."
September 24, 2025 at 12:04 PM
This week, 100% of profits from anything sold on or through ArabLit go to 19-year-old poet Marah Mohamed Al-Khattab, who writes, "In Gaza, dreams are interrupted before they can take shape. Here, we do not grow into adulthood—we are thrown into it by force."
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The destruction of the Gaza city mosque is a devastating loss to humanity as a whole. A part of our global medieval heritage destroyed in furtherance to a genocide. I despair.
Built in the 13th century. So that mosque stood for 800 years with every sort of person from every place and every religion in the world passing through Gaza century after century, only for it to be blown up by some shithead loser sitting behind a computer that we probably paid for.
My rage knows no bounds
September 17, 2025 at 11:16 AM
The destruction of the Gaza city mosque is a devastating loss to humanity as a whole. A part of our global medieval heritage destroyed in furtherance to a genocide. I despair.
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This is going to make No Child Left Behind seem like good legislation
The heads of Microsoft, OpenAI, Google and Apple gathered at the White House to endorse a plan to help America’s children learn to use artificial intelligence, as the industry rushes to show support and curry favour with the administration on.ft.com/4nexysf
September 5, 2025 at 11:21 AM
This is going to make No Child Left Behind seem like good legislation
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A Palestinian poet insisting on poetry that overcomes the most horrific timelines, Nima Hasan’s voice shames and exposes the politics of necromancy that pass as solidarity, a necromancy that requires a compromised Palestinian voice or a broken Palestinian body to hold up.
lithub.com/old-song-a-p...
lithub.com/old-song-a-p...
“Old Song,” a Poem by Nima Hasan
“Old Song” by Nima Hasan translated by Huda Fakhreddine “I love you” is enough. A longer phrase requires sprawling walls, refugee camps, and a girl with braids long as wheat fields, a candy swirl t…
lithub.com
August 15, 2025 at 10:24 AM
A Palestinian poet insisting on poetry that overcomes the most horrific timelines, Nima Hasan’s voice shames and exposes the politics of necromancy that pass as solidarity, a necromancy that requires a compromised Palestinian voice or a broken Palestinian body to hold up.
lithub.com/old-song-a-p...
lithub.com/old-song-a-p...
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Translation as Knowledge Production
In this "BETWEEN TWO ARABIC TRANSLATORS" conversation, Yasmeen Hanoosh and Samah Selim discuss authorship and adaptations in translated texts, Samah's "Turjoman" project and the ways in which the field of translation is specific to location, her translation of…
In this "BETWEEN TWO ARABIC TRANSLATORS" conversation, Yasmeen Hanoosh and Samah Selim discuss authorship and adaptations in translated texts, Samah's "Turjoman" project and the ways in which the field of translation is specific to location, her translation of…
Translation as Knowledge Production
In this "BETWEEN TWO ARABIC TRANSLATORS" conversation, Yasmeen Hanoosh and Samah Selim discuss authorship and adaptations in translated texts, Samah's "Turjoman" project and the ways in which the field of translation is specific to location, her translation of Arwa Salih, and the "small arsenal of knowledge, resilience, and love" Salih's work continues to bring into the world.
arablit.org
August 14, 2025 at 5:52 AM
Translation as Knowledge Production
In this "BETWEEN TWO ARABIC TRANSLATORS" conversation, Yasmeen Hanoosh and Samah Selim discuss authorship and adaptations in translated texts, Samah's "Turjoman" project and the ways in which the field of translation is specific to location, her translation of…
In this "BETWEEN TWO ARABIC TRANSLATORS" conversation, Yasmeen Hanoosh and Samah Selim discuss authorship and adaptations in translated texts, Samah's "Turjoman" project and the ways in which the field of translation is specific to location, her translation of…
posting an interview about Sonallah Ibrahim--an inimitable and soon to be much missed voice--on the occasion of the great writer's passing:
open.spotify.com/episode/0cpx...
open.spotify.com/episode/0cpx...
Warda: Diary of a Revolutionary
BULAQ | بولاق · Episode
open.spotify.com
August 13, 2025 at 1:30 PM
posting an interview about Sonallah Ibrahim--an inimitable and soon to be much missed voice--on the occasion of the great writer's passing:
open.spotify.com/episode/0cpx...
open.spotify.com/episode/0cpx...
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Mohamed Salah calls out UEFA for not mentioning Israeli forces killed Al-Obeid as he waited for aid at Gaza distribution center. The "Palestinian Pele" leaves behind a wife & five kids.
His death means Israel has now killed 321 footballers in Gaza (players, coaches, admin, refs etc)
His death means Israel has now killed 321 footballers in Gaza (players, coaches, admin, refs etc)
August 9, 2025 at 9:12 PM
Mohamed Salah calls out UEFA for not mentioning Israeli forces killed Al-Obeid as he waited for aid at Gaza distribution center. The "Palestinian Pele" leaves behind a wife & five kids.
His death means Israel has now killed 321 footballers in Gaza (players, coaches, admin, refs etc)
His death means Israel has now killed 321 footballers in Gaza (players, coaches, admin, refs etc)
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Please consider signing the petition regarding the unjust imprisonment without trial of the prominent intellectual Hany Babu by the Indian government. It could help him with his upcoming bail hearing.
forms.gle/fDsVm3bHdvbg...
forms.gle/fDsVm3bHdvbg...
Petition to the Chief Justice of India Regarding the Incarceration of Professor Hany Babu
Please fill out this form to sign the petition demanding the immediate release of Professor Hany Babu, who has been imprisoned for the past five years without a trial.
Here is the letter:
August 03, ...
forms.gle
August 4, 2025 at 7:02 AM
Please consider signing the petition regarding the unjust imprisonment without trial of the prominent intellectual Hany Babu by the Indian government. It could help him with his upcoming bail hearing.
forms.gle/fDsVm3bHdvbg...
forms.gle/fDsVm3bHdvbg...
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As the airdrops begin please do not share videos of people scavenging for food. Its the occupations fault that this is happening first and foremost, but please try to preserve the dignity of the Palestinians in those videos. As a palestinian i am heartbroken enough.
July 27, 2025 at 12:45 AM
As the airdrops begin please do not share videos of people scavenging for food. Its the occupations fault that this is happening first and foremost, but please try to preserve the dignity of the Palestinians in those videos. As a palestinian i am heartbroken enough.
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As a faculty member, I would like to say to fellow faculty members that ANNUAL TRAINING VIDEOS THIS YEAR ARE GONNA BE AMAZING.
July 25, 2025 at 2:48 PM
As a faculty member, I would like to say to fellow faculty members that ANNUAL TRAINING VIDEOS THIS YEAR ARE GONNA BE AMAZING.
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Rhetorical questions along the lines of "why hasn't [Israel in Gaza] been more methodical and vastly more deadly" don't fit the current reality of causing mass famine, including firing live ammo to stop people from getting food aid. No national security rationale for that, not even a stretched one.
July 24, 2025 at 3:46 PM
Rhetorical questions along the lines of "why hasn't [Israel in Gaza] been more methodical and vastly more deadly" don't fit the current reality of causing mass famine, including firing live ammo to stop people from getting food aid. No national security rationale for that, not even a stretched one.
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Reading Walter Rodney and finding his argument that revolutions occur when status quo is holding back economic systems useful—particularly its insistence that this need not be a good or wholly good thing. 1/
July 24, 2025 at 5:48 PM
Reading Walter Rodney and finding his argument that revolutions occur when status quo is holding back economic systems useful—particularly its insistence that this need not be a good or wholly good thing. 1/