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Refaat Mobile Library - Atlanta
@refaatlibrary.bsky.social
A traveling volunteer-run liberation library in Atlanta created in honor of martyred Palestinian poet Refaat Alareer. Check refaatlibrary.com calendar for pop-ups! ⬇️🍑📚🍉 (Back-up for X)
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Support the Refaat Alareer Mobile Library’s @refaatlibrary.bsky.social to provide essential resources and political education for Palestinians under siege. Stand in solidarity: www.refaatlibrary.com/gaza-funds #gapol #atlanta
January 18, 2025 at 6:18 PM
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Happy holidays only to those who never tired of demanding a ceasefire and justice for Hind and all and freedom for us and all.
December 25, 2024 at 3:01 AM
Want your Gaza donation to go twice as far? For our FINAL fundraising campaign of 2024, we're matching $1500 for The Sameer Project.
1. Send $ to refaatlibraryatl on Venmo
2. DM payment proof+address here or on X/IG for ltd edition 🇵🇸 art designed exclusively for the library

We can all do more.
December 25, 2024 at 1:22 AM
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Also on SUNDAY, Dec. 15th, join @refaatlibrary.bsky.social
organizers for a workshop on how to start your own mobile library! You'll receive practical advice on gathering volunteers to collaborating with bookstores and publishers, holding events and more: www.workshops4gaza.com/calendar/how...
How To Start Your Own Mobile Liberation Library — Workshops 4 Gaza
Step 1: Donate to Sameer Project here (suggested donation $60 USD). Step 2: Register for “How to Start Your Own Mobile Liberation Library” here . In this workshop, volunteers from the ...
www.workshops4gaza.com
December 13, 2024 at 1:18 AM
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Please spend time with the new collected edition of Alareer’s writing IF I MUST DIE, curated by his former student Yousef Aljamal. It paints a rich portrait of a beloved man and teacher gone far too soon—whose legacy will live on despite Israel’s attempt to silence it. orbooks.com/catalog/if-i...
If I Must Die
This rich, elegiac compilation of work from the late Palestinian poet and professor, Refaat Alareer, brings together his marvelous poetry and deeply human writing about literature, teaching, politics,...
orbooks.com
December 12, 2024 at 3:23 PM
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ATLANTA: Please join us Sunday 12/15 in Decatur for an afternoon commemorating one year since the martyrdom of Gaza’s Storyteller, educator, activist, & beloved friend to many, #RefaatAlareer. We'll have the library of course & will be fundraising for GZ.
December 10, 2024 at 3:56 PM
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Just got some new literature from the @refaatlibrary.bsky.social today!
December 7, 2024 at 5:12 PM
ATLANTA: Please join us Sunday 12/15 in Decatur for an afternoon commemorating one year since the martyrdom of Gaza’s Storyteller, educator, activist, & beloved friend to many, #RefaatAlareer. We'll have the library of course & will be fundraising for GZ.
December 10, 2024 at 3:56 PM
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Reading some works by Refaat, likely from Light in Gaza & support the Municipality of Gaza so that they may continue the work they do while under threat

gaza-city.ensany.com/campaign/673...
December 6, 2024 at 6:05 PM
Today, Dec. 6, marks one year since our library's namesake — Gaza's Storyteller — the Palestinian academic and poet Dr. Refaat Alareer, was assassinated in an Israeli airstrike in Gaza. How will you honor his legacy?
December 6, 2024 at 3:05 PM
12 books Atlanta’s Refaat Mobile Library volunteers are reading for #ReadPalestineWeek 🇵🇸
December 3, 2024 at 11:06 PM
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Also on Dec. 15, dear friends and organizers from the amazing @refaatlibrary.bsky.social will be leading a workshop to teach people how to start their own mobile liberation libraries. Sign up here: www.workshops4gaza.com/calendar/hif...
How To Start Your Own Mobile Liberation Library — Workshops 4 Gaza
Step 1: Donate to Sameer Project here (suggested donation $60 USD). Step 2: Register for “How to Start Your Own Mobile Liberation Library” here . In this workshop, volunteers from the ...
www.workshops4gaza.com
December 2, 2024 at 7:14 PM
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🚨 Hey Bluesky fam, I still need $75 for a $100 match campaign for The Sameer Project to get urgent tents, cash aid and medical assistance to Gaza — esp now as it’s been raining. DM me a receipt screenshot or Venmo Fiza-Pirani by midnight EST and I’ll match up to $100. chuffed.org/project/1132...
South Gaza: Tents, Cash Aid, & Medical
***UPDATE REGARDING TENTS: there is a shortage of tents readily available for purchase due to traders withholding inventory. This is a combination of multiple factors including merchants wanting to dr...
chuffed.org
November 26, 2024 at 2:30 AM
Want to start a mobile liberation library in your town to make Palestinian literature more accessible but don't know where to start? Come take our virtual workshop on 12/15!! Ticket sales benefit Sameer Project’s Refaat Alareer Camp! @workshops4gaza.bsky.social www.workshops4gaza.com/calendar/hif...
How To Start Your Own Mobile Liberation Library — Workshops 4 Gaza
Register for “How to Start Your Own Mobile Liberation Library” here . Donate to Sameer Project here (suggested donation $60 USD). In this workshop, volunteers from the Refaat Alareer mobi...
www.workshops4gaza.com
November 21, 2024 at 5:10 PM
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The great Lena Khalaf Tuffaha @lenakt.bsky.social just won the National Book Award for Poetry, for Something about Living. You can get it @openpoetrybooks.bsky.social, where all proceeds go to HEAL Palestine, providing essential aid, healthcare, educational resources to Palestinian youth: t.ly/Sqvw2
November 21, 2024 at 3:03 AM
🎉🎉🎉
OH MY GOD OH MY GOD @lenakt.bsky.social WON THE NATIONAL BOOK AWARD IN POETRY IVE BEEN CRYING FOR 5 MINUTES STRAIGHT
November 21, 2024 at 4:44 AM
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If you've ever wanted to take a class with me, now might be the time to learn how to READ, honey! I've partnered with @workshops4gaza.bsky.social to teach "The Library is Open: Understanding Media Ethics" to raise $ for food, water & education in North Gaza www.workshops4gaza.com/calendar/how...
November 18, 2024 at 8:42 PM
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I just signed up to take "CRISIS CREATES US: FIRE AT THE CROSSROADS OF ART AND ACTIVISM" tmrw night with THE
@djolder.bsky.social. I am so stoked for this @workshops4gaza.bsky.social!!! www.workshops4gaza.com/calendar/cri...
November 18, 2024 at 11:39 PM
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We are a group of autonomous writers, artists, educators and translators coming together to offer online courses and workshops to raise money for people in Gaza 🥀🥀🥀
November 16, 2024 at 9:45 PM
We hope to see many more mobile libraries popping up around the world! In this workshop, we’ll discuss went into this project, our challenges and more! Register for the 12/15 @workshops4gaza.bsky.social How to Start Your Own Mobile Liberation Library here: www.workshops4gaza.com/calendar/hif...
November 18, 2024 at 9:15 PM
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November 17, 2024 at 5:29 PM
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All proceeds will go the Sameer Project's Refaat Alareer Camp, which you can read more about and donate to here: tinyurl.com/sameerproject-central
November 17, 2024 at 5:29 PM
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The primary purpose is to promote and increase access to political education towards the liberation of Palestinians from Zionist occupation in this lifetime and to respond to the urgent needs of Palestinians most immediately affected by the genocidal siege on Gaza since 10/7.
November 17, 2024 at 5:28 PM