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nohabeshir.bsky.social
Essayist and poet. Recovering People-pleaser. Second generation Muslim Canadian based in Ottawa, Canada. https://nohabeshir.substack.com
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I sat down with my friend Amanda B. Hinton earlier this week to discuss Gaza, the Israel Lebanon ceasefire, and what writers can do in a time of war to share humanity. theeditingspectrum.substack.com/p/humanity-w...

Ahem- all Wizard Bizans on here are not real

This would also be my assumption- I haven’t seen any account like this raise funds but they are no doubt planning a grift of some sort

This is both incredibly cool and nightmare fuel at the same time

Even my cold is embarrassed by its existence in the face of the missing limbs Of tents made of sheets and ripped canvas leaking rain through the fabric of their roof nohabeshir.substack.com/p/the-luxury...

A lot of coverage recently of Israeli quadcopters killing civilians in Gaza, including in NPR. ⁦‪Spencer Ackerman‬⁩ wrote about this dangerous and horrifying new trend for Zeteo more than six months ago. zeteo.com/p/israel-gaz...

One of my happiest, small pleasures is finding an old hijab I forgotten about at the back of my closet and having it re-enter my rotation

I want to write about Muslim men. About the Muslim men I know. About the soft Muslim men I know. I want to tell you about my Khalo, my mother’s brother, who bakes olives into his homemade focaccia and roasts whole garlic heads on the barbecue. nohabeshir.substack.com/p/the-muslim...