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Yahia Lababidi
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Author of On the Contrary (2025), 🇵🇸 Palestine Wail (2024) & 12 other books : aphorisms, poetry, essays, and conversations.

👉 https://www.amazon.com/stores/author/B0042SRQWG

Exploring art, spirit, and conscience.
#WritingCommunity #BookSky
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#art by Sliman Mansour

Temporary escape, oil on canvas, 2018

#Palestine
Reposted by Yahia Lababidi
#art #Egyptian modernist #artist Abdel Hadi al-Gazzar
(1925-1966)
November 10, 2025 at 3:52 PM
November 10, 2025 at 3:57 PM
#art #Egyptian modernist #artist Abdel Hadi al-Gazzar
(1925-1966)
November 10, 2025 at 3:52 PM
From Syrian poet and refugee, Osama Alomar

Full review of his book, The Teeth of the Comb: worldliteraturetoday.org/2017/may/tee...

via @worldlittoday.bsky.social

#booksky #writing #poetry
November 10, 2025 at 3:45 PM
“In time when evil stems from the fact that men belittle and hate each other, the artist’s mission is to extol gentleness, trust, friendship, and in this way to remind hardened and desperate men that purity, tender feelings and simple equality do or can still exist.”

— Georges Sand
November 10, 2025 at 3:39 PM
" #Art means nothing if it simply decorates the dinner table of the power which holds it hostage."

—Adrienne Rich
November 10, 2025 at 2:51 PM
November 9, 2025 at 2:32 PM
The #artist is always the servant & is perpetually trying to pay for the gift that has been given to him as if by a miracle.

Modern man, however, does not want to make any sacrifice, even though true affirmation of the self can only be expressed in sacrifice.

—Andrei Tarkovsky, Sculpting in Time
November 9, 2025 at 2:13 PM
Why do we turn to #poetry, in crises?

#Reading from "Learning to #Pray"

youtu.be/BaBH8CgyqKA #video #booksky #writing
What is the Role of Poetry — in times of crises?
YouTube video by YAHIA LABABIDI
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November 9, 2025 at 2:07 PM
‘At the center of our being [is] a point untouched by illusion, a point of pure truth... is inaccessible to the fantasies of our own mind and brutalities of our will...

I have no program for this seeing. It is only given.'

— Thomas Merton
November 9, 2025 at 2:02 PM
🇵🇸 Palestinian voices worth knowing:

youtube.com/shorts/w7Sp1...

#youtube #video #palestine #gaza #Israel
We Teach Life, Sir by Rafeef Ziadah #shorts #poetry #palestine #israel #war
YouTube video by YAHIA LABABIDI
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November 9, 2025 at 1:48 PM
“Too long I've owed you this apology
For the apparently unmeaning sorrow
You were afflicted with in those old days.
But it was of the essence of the trial
You shouldn't understand it at the time.”

― Robert Frost, God's speech to Job
#booksky #poetry
November 9, 2025 at 1:33 PM
A Prayer for Guidance
by Thomas Merton :

youtube.com/shorts/sn1F9... #meditation #quotes
✨A Prayer for Guidance by Thomas Merton 🙏🏼 #shorts #prayer #motivation
YouTube video by YAHIA LABABIDI
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November 9, 2025 at 1:26 PM
Reposted by Yahia Lababidi
Mother of the martyr, oil on canvas, 1983

#art by #slimanmansour #palestine #freepalestine #سليمان_منصور 🇵🇸
November 8, 2025 at 2:38 PM
how to give yourself
to this world
so worthy of rescue

#poetry #writing
November 8, 2025 at 2:53 PM
Mother of the martyr, oil on canvas, 1983

#art by #slimanmansour #palestine #freepalestine #سليمان_منصور 🇵🇸
November 8, 2025 at 2:38 PM
Reposted by Yahia Lababidi
The silence of the mystics baptizes speech, allowing language to be born of awe:

comment.org/silence-the-...

@commentmagazine.bsky.social

#meditation #writing #music #art
Silence, the First Music
Silence is banished in the modern world, but it provides the conditions for life and art to flourish.
comment.org
November 7, 2025 at 4:00 PM
Reposted by Yahia Lababidi
Revisiting this marvelous image of common grass by our house — Red muhly, aka Undaunted Ruby — and how it is transformed by the light…

May we continue to affirm light in the face of darkness & the principles we love in the face of hate.

Peace 🙏

#nature #photography
November 7, 2025 at 2:37 PM
The silence of the mystics baptizes speech, allowing language to be born of awe:

comment.org/silence-the-...

@commentmagazine.bsky.social

#meditation #writing #music #art
Silence, the First Music
Silence is banished in the modern world, but it provides the conditions for life and art to flourish.
comment.org
November 7, 2025 at 4:00 PM
Revisiting this marvelous image of common grass by our house — Red muhly, aka Undaunted Ruby — and how it is transformed by the light…

May we continue to affirm light in the face of darkness & the principles we love in the face of hate.

Peace 🙏

#nature #photography
November 7, 2025 at 2:37 PM
“My Lord! Increase me in knowledge.”

#Quran 20:114
November 7, 2025 at 12:44 PM
“All God's creatures are His family; and he or she is the most beloved of God who tries to do most good to God's creatures."

— Prophet Muhammad
November 7, 2025 at 12:43 PM
Reposted by Yahia Lababidi
“We flee into digital detox retreats, or into apps that sell quietude back to us as a subscription service. Noise is the religion of our age, demanding constant sacrifice of our attention.”

@ysl.bsky.social on silence and the flourishing of life and art.
Silence, the First Music
Silence is banished in the modern world, but it provides the conditions for life and art to flourish.
comment.org
November 6, 2025 at 5:51 PM