This is perhaps the most disturbing and troubling lecture I've ever heard.
Meet the most truly disgusting Tareq Al-Suwaidan, a Kuwaiti Islamic "scholar" and Muslim Brotherhood leader.
In Malaysia recently, Al-Suwaidan bragged about being with Hamas leader Ismail Haniyeh right before Oct 7, that Israel "has no hope of crushing Hamas" which has "lost less than 20% of its power" so far in the war. He also claimed that Palestine will be free, October 7 was a "very clear start," that Rome will soon be under Muslim rule, and that the tunnels in Gaza were built by Morsi of Egypt in 1 year, who supplied Gaza with the equipment.
Mezquitas de Puerto Rico is an ongoing collaboration between Alia Farid and Jesús "Bubu" Negrón on the representation of Islam in the Caribbean. Renderings/depictions have so far resulted in a series of prayer rugs of mosques in the Puerto Rican towns of Hatillo, Vega Alta, Fajardo, Rio Piedras, and Ponce, and postcards of the same places. For the carpet-kilims series, the mosques were photographed in the spring of 2013 and later interpreted by weavers from Mashhad, Iran.
This year, we continue our Women in Translation Month (#WiTMonth) Wednesday series of “9 Stories” lists.
In 2021, we featured short fiction by Sudanese and South Sudanese women, by Algerian women, by Egyptian women, and by Syrian women, all in translation.
In 2022, we added a short collections of work by Palestinian women writers,by Lebanese women writers, by Moroccan women writers, and by…