I took so much pride in telling Irish students and professors at my Irish university how proud we, Palestinians, are of having one of the lowest rates of illiteracy in the Arab World (Approximately 1%) and how much we cherish education. I also shed light on how the ongoing genocide has deprived students across all levels of their right to a proper education by bombing schools and universities and making the living conditions in Gaza just hellish.
Having been a lecturer at the Islamic University in Gaza (IUG) for two years, I have always seen the passion and determination in the eyes of my students whenever they talked about their life goals and dreams. Not only did this war kill their dreams but also killed many of my students. One of them is the smiling young man in the middle of the picture below Mohammed.
Mohammed was known for always having a big smile on his face that would brighten not only the lecture halls but also our days. I look at my chat with Mohammed on Facebook and think to myself: Is there any hope he would reply to his teacher if he were to send him a message?! Take all the marks you want, but please say something! Please reply!
For my students, education is a bridge to success in life and an opportunity to get equipped with the skills and knowledge they crave. It means talking to experts in their fields, mingling with like-minded people, and having exciting experiences. In addition, education is indisputably a noble form of resistance and entrenching existence. It is our most cherished tool to preserve our culture, values, and commitment to our land and rights as Palestinians. Depriving students of education is equal to depriving them of Oxygen.
This was the ending part of a play performed by my students named 'Sounds from Heaven'. It embodied the characters of iconic Palestinian martyrs like Al-Jazeera Palestinian American journalist, Shireen Abu Akleh.
Four months into the war, I was evacuated to Ireland to pursue my studies. Looking over my shoulder to see my greatly damaged house and family running from death from one place to another felt like ripping my soul out of my body. How does one work on his PhD research in such circumstances? How do you process all the near-death experiences and horrible images in your head from the war? What kind of therapy helps you cope with and accept your constant worry about your family? None! As the hope of a ceasefire diminishes every minute, the only solution I am left with is to evacuate my family from Gaza to Egypt until peace and life revisit my beautiful Gaza.
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Regardless of your body type, regardless of your looks, the only thing that will ever make someone ugly. Is their personality.
If you are mean to people who are just trying to be nice? If you bully people for having interests? If you bully people for the things that bring them comfort? If you bring down someone just because of what they're wearing or their looks? If you start arguments and bully people for not having the same opinion as you? If you never try to respect boundaries or triggers? If you don't respect people's choices that are opposite to yours? You are the ugliest person I've ever seen. So ugly I don't even wanna look at you. So ugly I don't even want to be around you.
But if you are nice, back to the people that are nice to you? If you encourage those interests. If you willingly go out of your way to help someone who's clearly struggling? If you respect and understand the boundaries and triggers? If your kind to yourself and take care of yourself along with others? If you go out of your way to pick up trash on the ground? If your kind, regardless of how mean people are? If you respect people's opinions, even if they are opposite to your? If you respect people's choices, even if you don't fully understand them? God you're beautiful. You're so stunning and gorgeous that I can't stop looking at you.
Looks don't matter. They don't. You can match the "perfect beauty standards" and be the ugliest person I've ever seen. Or you can be "ugliest" person in terms of "beauty standards," and I would want to portrait of you just to look how beautiful you are.
But there are exceptions.
All body types are beautiful and gorgeous, but there is a point where it can be harmful. You can be so skinny, I can see your ribs & it wouldn't make me admire your diet or your figure but that would make me worry you aren't eating enough and not taking good care of yourself. You can be obese and overweight, and that would not make you ugly, no not at all, but it would make you unhealthy and sick. And it would make me worry if you're taking proper care of yourself. There's a balance.
The point of this post is that the beauty standards of today are messed up and twisted. And at some point, people need to realize that the things that make a person beautiful or not their looks. But their personality. And while people are right to point out that all body types are beautiful! There's a point where it becomes dangerous to yourself and unhealthy. And the world needs to realize that.
So please, if not for anyone else, please take care of yourself for me. Will you? I love you. I hope you have an awesome day.
Hello dear friends! ❤🤍🖤💚
🍉I am Mahmoud Ayyad, a Palestinian from the besieged and destroyed Gaza 😭😭, coming from an extended family of young children, women and elderly people ❤❤ who have been suffering😭😭 for 300 difficult days from an aggressive war.
Our lives are harsh because we lack all the basic necessities of life. Everything has become scarce and unattainable. There is no food, no water, no medicine.
So, I ask you to help me keep my family safe and alive, especially after we had lost all our sources of livelihood.Please do not leave my family to struggle and suffer these difficult days alone. You can support my campaign by donating whatever you can or by sharing my posts to reach others who can help us survive the war to safety and peace. You are helping the lives of many people with your small contribution. Every donation makes a difference in our very difficult lives. But this is a legitimate campaign and has been checked by 90-ghost.
https://gofund.me/31c5cbe3
Thank you for reaching out to me, so I can do this for you. I am unable to donate anything at the moment but I will reblog and share as many times as I can so other people will.
Today we transferred my little daughter to the hospital because he is suffering from an infection that is affecting his breathing and causing him pain. I hope that every living conscience will help us save my little daughter’s life and donate any amount we can.
My compaign link https://www.gofundme.com/f/save-ibrahim-family
Please save our baby and Donate if you can
Of course! Thank you so much for reaching out so I can do this. I am unable to donate at the moment but I will reblog and share as much as I can so other people will.
:D
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I’m gonna tag @anonymousmouse556 @an4mations @sammy-star @vixxproductions @jaligachagirl12 @gniteruirui @kandidandi @cody-welsh @jadescortaurius @nyx-deadwally-2360 @theonefnaffan @thesketchystar @zzzopino and that’s all :)
(sorry if I missed anyone)
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Picrew chain >:)
Have this @whosectype @winterleaf098 @cupid-shortcake @fizz-wizz-dizz @cups-and-pentacles 💜👀
imo it's completely fine to like chara (chara is tied for my fave along with frisk, actually!) but it's another thing to headcanon chara as a person they're not in canon. it's actually pretty disgusting to see the lengths people will go to to excuse a character and their actions who is made to be terrible and do terrible things-- toby made chara this way to make a point! a point to point out how the implications of the conventional way of (1/2)
☆ rest of ask + answer under the cut. for the record, this is the last ask I’ll answer about this.☆
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My biggest NOTP but one of my biggest BrOTP is ShigaDeku.
Please, for the love of god, don't ship them romantically... Shigaraki is an adult, and Izuku is a child... But please, ship them as bros... They'd be good bros tbh. I kinda hc that they're half brothers.
Hi 👋 my 🍉 dear ⚘supporters ❤
I am a Palestinian youngman of 26 yrs , from the besieged Gaza, seeking to find safety and peace for my eight_member family 👪 that has been in very harsh and tough situations for almost a year. Since the outbreak of the war, we have been forcibly displaced to the south of Gaza, in the hope of finding a safer place, but the fact is that there is no safe place in Gaza. After we had lost all our possessions and belongings like our house and our livelihood_ source business were destroyed and damaged 💔 due to the annihilation of our neighborhood.
This photo was taken to the remains and ruins of our house. Nothing has been left for my family to live in nor a source to live on. Now we are living in small tents ⛺ in streets lacking all means of a house.
We re leading unbelievably difficult circumstances due to this injust war on Gaza. Also, We are painfully suffering from the bad living conditions because we lack all necessities and essentials of our daily life. Food, clean drink water, medicine 💊, health care , and other necessities have become scarce and unattainable and this adds to our sufferings and hardship.
a photo taken to show how harsh and tough our life is. hours of waiting in queue to get some gallons of water for the daily use. This is driving us crazy and insane .
What adds to our tragedy is that we wait long hours just to get a little water that can't meet our daily use.
It is also sad to have a sister suffering from chronic diseases such as bone atrophy , yet no health care exists.
so I am asking you my dear donors to help us get out of this painful tragedy and hardship. You can help my family by donating whatever you can or by sharing 🙏 my messages so that my goal can be reached sooner. Your help is essential for people in dire needs and awkward situations.
yours
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[PT: picrew outfit challenge]
use this picrew (link) to make your outfits
1. an outfit as close to the one you wore today as you can
2. an outfit in an opposite aesthetic to yours
3. an outfit you could wear with your current wardrobe, but have never worn
tagging:
@runway-houses-city-clouds @clownatthevampiremansion @cultofsheep @soundsystemgocrazy @moth-season and anyone else who wants to participate :)
Interests rn: Gravity Falls~DR/UT~Sander Sides~Please DNI of you are a: Homoph0bic, Ableist, Transph0bic, Pro/Con/Dark$h!ppers, z00phile, Racist, L0li/Sh0tac0n fan, 20+ of age, Pedophile, pro in$ect, pro r@pe, Wilbur soot/Georgenotfound/Dream/Punz supporter, etc etc. You people disgust me. Please go see a therapist. I know you can do better than this.
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