These people lived in a so-called open-air prison, under siege for seventeen years, their calorie-intake counted by the Israeli state, their living conditions already “uninhabitable.” Yet there was a future there and it has been destroyed.’

#recognizingthestranger #isabellahammad #groveatlantic

‘[It] is…a distortion…from which…dominant social theories and ideologies suffer.’

‘[It] is…not a banal ethnocentrism testifying…to the limited horizons beyond which no people on this planet has yet…been able to go. [It] is a…modern phenomenon, the roots of which go back only to the Renaissance [and] the 19th century.’

#ghassankanafani #therevolutionof19361939inPalestine

And I’ve been living here, quietly, beside you, for years, just waiting for…the high sign.’

#whentheemperorwasdivine #julieotsuka #japaneseinternment

#sudan #eyesonsudan #grovepress
#riverspirit #leilaaboulela #sudan #eyesonsudan #grovepress @leilaaboulela @groveatlantic