Dr.Reda Mahajar
drmahajar.bsky.social
Dr.Reda Mahajar
@drmahajar.bsky.social
Research Fellow @CARCatKent Guest Lecturer in Sociology @UAntwerpen. Analysis of the historical stubbornness of the Sunni Shia labels as categories of power in the Arab and Muslim spaces.
2) But to me, it was something else entirely. It felt like a document of release, a narrow bridge out of the uncertainty of one place and into the possibility of another. A ticket, yes—but more accurately, a fragile emblem of escape.
May 2, 2025 at 12:42 PM
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March 20, 2025 at 1:51 PM
2) The finale? A dictatorship with a legally stamped approval.
March 15, 2025 at 9:26 AM
2) Then they came for the Druze, and I did not speak out—Because I was not a Druze.
Then they came for me—and there was no one left to speak for me.
March 10, 2025 at 11:41 AM