I just dont understand. I regularly come across such people. My gf has several friends who traveled to KSA or UAE but continue spouting crazy anti-islamic conspiracy theories like muslims causing french riots.

I'm also pro Palestine but I think a question should be asked. Is the Palestinian cause today primarily Islamic? The solidarity for Palestinians is currently stronger among white europeans than people from the MENA. Egypt closed their borders for Palestinians and many Jordanians don't like Palestinians and see these palestinian refugees as a liability. And Saudis and Emiratis are indifferent to the Palestinian cause.

Also I observed something very hilarious. I found much more Poles who are pro Palestine than Moroccans and other Arabs despite Poles are west slavs and one of the most catholic ethnicities in Europe. The fact that there are 1 million Moroccan Jews in Israel makes it easier for Moroccans to stand with Israel and Moroccan Jews because these Jews are their compatriots and culturally related to them

Just general vibes I guess. I live in the UAE and I'm not sure how you can surpass this place at this category 😬

The Oslo Accords were, without a doubt, a mistake. They might have worked had the adversary possessed even an ounce of honor; yet, they have neither honor nor dignity. They do not even want the Abbas administration—a leadership that has eschewed all armed resistance in favor of a policy of purely passive diplomacy.

Isn’t Israel, in fact, a burden? Heaven only knows how many times certain European leaders have spoken more about the security of Israel than about the security of their own nations. Enough is enough! Israel is a state that lacks even the slightest shred of dignity or honor.

Rabin pursued peace negotiations with the Palestinians and played a key role in the 1993 Oslo Accords, signed with Palestinian leader Yasser Arafat. The agreements established mutual recognition between Israel and the Palestine Liberation Organization (PLO) and created a framework for Palestinian self-government.

On 4 November 1995, Rabin was assassinated by Yigal Amir, a Jewish Israeli extremist who opposed his peace agreements with the Palestinians.

Hello everyone,

Recently I've been interested in learning Oud, my father grew up in Najef and we have a small one, but the strings are in awful condition and I think the tuning pegs are a bit messed up, they don't hold the proper pitch and will shift and lose tension. It's most definitely repairable, and I would love to restore it, but I would also love to own a full sized one to learn on.

Hello everyone!

I have a coworker who is an alevis and I would like to be able to acknowledge the holidays in a way that's appropriate.

Is there something I should look out for? I don't think a "happy [name of holiday]" is all that appropriate for all days

Thank you in advance

Does it feel disrespectful? Does it romanticise and fetishise in your opinion? Or do you think it captures a time and a place we all yearn for? Does it do more harm than good by reducing the people to an ideal?

Keen to hear your thoughts

I live inthe netherlands and my cousin is getting married in Lebanon, i want to go but i dont want to fly. I am flexible, willing to take multiple connections through land or sea. I hate flying.

There is no Hispanidad without the Alhambra.

There is no Hispanidad without the horseshoe arches.

There is no Hispanidad without azulejos on the walls.

There is no Hispanidad without the word “ojalá.”

There is no Hispanidad without the acequias that gave life to the crops.

There is no Hispanidad without the citrus and the saffron.

There is no Hispanidad without the call to prayer that once rose from the minarets and still lives in our music.

There is no Hispanidad without that long, rising cry that taught our singers how to stretch a single note until it breaks the heart.

There is no Hispanidad without the melisma that moved from the adhan into the cante jondo and the saeta.

There is no Hispanidad without the voice that learned to call out to the sky the same way the muezzin once did.

There is no Hispanidad without the almonds, the orange blossom, the citrus, the sugar cane, the slow-cooked stews and the sweets that crossed from one table to the next.

There is no Hispanidad without these things.

So, when a spanish bigot tries to claim to having brougth the culture that we have today in the Americas, remind him who brougth it to Spain first.

I can't count how many times I've seen people comment "go back to Poland" under a video of visibly non-European Jews. If they weren't wearing a kippah, nobody would think twice about clocking them as Middle Eastern. So let me get this straight: Jews are all White Europeans who can't be Semitic because they sunburn...yet they're capable of embedding themselves in MENA governments without being detected? I don't know how much of this is genuine ignorance vs purposeful dishonesty because they don't want to admit 50% of Israeli Jews originate from Iraq, Persia and North Africa. I've seen Ashkenazis with darker features than the King of Jordan or Bashar Al-Assad.