March 2012
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“The following day, I attended a workshop about preventing gender violence,...”
– Why I Am A Male Feminist (via newwavefeminism)
February 2012
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craggie:
I just ran into Indiana Josh’s twin in the Georgetown library. Actually had to stop for a second to make sure. Canvas bag and desert boots and all.
Mumkin bishufak hun fi al-mustaqbal?
[cas]
Inshallah, ya Chris…mumkin taqreeban sana u sanatain.
In the meantime, give my doppelganger a message for me:
I love waking up to the smell of last night’s procrastination.
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hiyati asked: I am taking a gap year to study in the middle for a year next year and my question to you is what are some of the places you enjoyed visiting? The places you didn't have a great experience in? How do you recommend to keep the motivation to explore new places and what are some ways that you avoided visiting these places as a tourist but actually experiencing the lifestyle of all the new...
Anonymous asked: really? so you never start missing food/books, etc. when you're abroad? that's pretty awesome. wherever i go, by the end of two weeks i start craving hamburgers like mad
Anonymous asked: what do you miss when you're abroad?
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Dear Liver,
الله يرحمك
Is it okay to drink coffee that’s been sitting in the pot heating up since last night? I kinda forgot about it and, well, now it just sounds good.
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achichi-javier replied to your post: renoa replied to your post: Hi I seen your picture…
I would go as far as suggesting if you cannot read the words you plan to permanently ink on your body yourself because you do not speak the language, opt for writing it in one you do speak or don’t get it at all.
This is usually my suggestion as well. I’m very hesitant to support the...
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renoa replied to your post: Hi I seen your picture about the girl with the messed up tattoo. I was wondering if you can tell me how is the saying “A lion doesn’t concern it’s self with a sheeps thoughts” Google translate says its this ” أسد لا يعنيه النفس مع الأفكار الخراف ” Can you let me know before I get the tattoo ? Thanks !
i only have 200 words but I’m a native speaker, the...
naturallinda asked: Hi I seen your picture about the girl with the messed up tattoo. I was wondering if you can tell me how is the saying "A lion doesn't concern it's self with a sheeps thoughts" Google translate says its this " أسد لا يعنيه النفس مع الأفكار الخراف " Can you let me know before I get the tattoo ? Thanks !
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Sometimes I enjoy browsing through Christian...
I can’t help it. My studies center around material religion, so religious stuff always interests me. You can tell an incredible amount by walking through religious goods stores, like Family Christian or Lifeway. They’re basically retail chains selling Americana kitsch, music from artists who usually end up using the religious genre as a stepping stone to larger platforms, and movies...
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achichi-javier replied to your video: Ugh, just balled my eyes out watching this…
So, I’ve never watched any Star Trek but I just watched this and read the whole episode summary and it looks like I’m going to be spending my night reading DS9 episode summaries…
Honestly, there are a few episodes here and there that just really hit me hard. This episode from Deep Space Nine and “The...
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Anonymous asked: Hey Josh I've been following you for a little while and you seem really really interesting and well traveled, so I'm wondering what your favorite place in the world is and what's the most profound experience you think you've had?
toutcon asked: Salam Josh, Have you ever been to the Rif region in Morocco (around Al-Hoceima)? Any info/tips about this amazigh place? Shoukran :)
stinarountree asked: I started following today, and you're already one of my top tumblr blogs to follow. What even is this? Why you no stop being cool so I can leave your page alone?
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Anonymous asked: lol 400 dollars in egyptian pounds? How did that happen and why didn't you exchange that before you left?
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So I also just realized, in the course of cleaning my room, that I have the rough equivalent of $400 USD in Egyptian pounds from a few years back. Holla.
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seinedoll replied to your post: I was curious if you thought there is a good English translation of the Quran to read. I don’t know Arabic but I’m interested in reading it not really for religious reasons but just for knowledge. Thanks
I recommend Muhammad Asad’s translation of the Qur’an. It has commentaries linked to the context of the revelations.
seinedoll raises a great point about Muhammad...
Anonymous asked: I was curious if you thought there is a good English translation of the Quran to read. I don't know Arabic but I'm interested in reading it not really for religious reasons but just for knowledge. Thanks
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I'm lol'ing at study abroad blogs
which are basically just privileged (and often quite sheltered) middle-class white people projecting middle-class white values and prejudices and fears onto the people and places they’re apparently blessing with their presence.
Why do they all act as if they are one of the few white people who have ever encountered these lands and their strange inhabitants, and feel the need to title their...
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imnomuslimsuperman asked: Do you think learning Arabic is best done in a class setting or can it be achieved through self study? I am familiar with the language so I thought that would give me a leg up.
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“We Egyptians of the Liberal Party believed once in English liberalism and...”
– Muhammad Abduh (1849-1905), one of the founders of Islamic Modernism, when asked by a representative of the British government about his opinion on the present state of Egypt and British policies therein.
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Let's stop blaming the victims of predatory...
squashed:
This is important.
The primary cause of the subprime collapse—which heralded in the Great Recession was bad loans not bad borrowers. At the peak of the subprime boom lenders structured loans in a way that virtually guaranteed that those loans would fail because it was profitable. Borrowers—particularly minority borrowers—were steered toward these designed-to-fail loans even when they...
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Anonymous asked: Hey! Are you a Muslim? Your icon is the bomb.
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So apparently women who exercise an act of sovereignty over their own bodies, taking control of their own sexuality, is forbidden.
While men are forgiven, and thus implicitly encouraged, to violently dominate women.
Stay classy.
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Middle East scholar Juan Cole to give public... →
Juan Cole, one of the foremost authorities on the modern Middle East will present a public lecture on “The Arab Spring One Year Later: What does it mean for the United States?” The free lecture will be at 7 p.m. Monday, Feb. 13, in the University of Arkansas Global Campus auditorium on the Fayetteville Square.
Cole is the author and curator of Informed Comment, one of the most respected...
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Muslim 'terror threat' greatly exaggerated →
The threat of terrorism carried out by Muslim Americans appears to have been exaggerated by US officials in recent years, according to a new study on domestic terrorism released Wednesday.
The study, the third in an annual series by the Triangle Center on Terrorism and Homeland Security in North Carolina, found that both the number of plots by and indictments against radicalised Muslim...