#refaat alareer

[feluka]

this is unbearable. just a little while ago when the baby was born we were lamenting that refaat never got to meet his grandkid and now his grandkid, son in law, and daughter are dead too?! ايه القهر ده!

#refaat alareer #i feel so sick #child death

[sayruq]

#yemen #jerusalem #tel aviv #current events #palestine #free palestine #gaza #free gaza #news on gaza #palestine news #news update #war news #war on gaza #refaat alareer #refaat in gaza #gaza genocide #genocide

[soon-palestine]

#palestine #gaza #free palestine #refaat alareer

[draakart]

If I must die, let it bring hope Let it be a tale 🪁🍉🇵🇸

resources below!🕊️

DONATE:

Buy an eSim for someone in Gaza

The Palestine Children's Relief Fund IG: @thepcrf

Sulala Animal Rescue IG: @sulalaanimalrescue

Care for Gaza, a grassroots organisiation in Gaza that gives care packages to Gazan families

United Nations Relief and Works Agency for Palestine Refugees

Operation Olive Branch

GET INVOLVED:

Join your local rallies!

Australia Palestine Advocacy Network (APAN) Twitter: @APAN4Palestine IG: @apan4palestine

Justice for Palestine Magan-djin (Brisbane) FB: justiceforpalestinebrisbane IG: justiceforpalestine.magandjin

Justice for Palestine Melbourne FB: FreePalestineMelbourne IG: freepalestinemelb

Friends of Palestine (Western Australia)

Wage Peace, Disrupt War (Australia) IG: disruptwars

BOYCOTTS:

Boycott, Divestment, Sanctions

Boycott, Divestment, Sanctions Australia

LEARN:

Decolonise Palestine

If you have any additional resources or funds that aren't listed, let me know and I will endeavor to add them on.

170 hours later and this behemoth project is completed. After being moved to tears three times by Dr. Alareer's poem, I needed to create something. Hopefully this honours his memory.

Hoping to get some funding from local orgs to get this printed into a physical booklet for distribution.

From the river, to the sea!

#free gaza #palestine #if i must die #refaat alareer #apartheid #artists on tumblr #digital art #draakart #2023 #2024 #watermelon #kite #kufiya #keffiyeh #such a relief to have finished this body of work

[gobcorend]

"There's a Palestine that dwells inside all of us, a Palestine that needs to be rescued: a free Palestine where all people regardless of color, religion, or race coexist; a Palestine where the meaning of the word "occupation" is only restricted to what the dictionary says rather than those plenty of meanings and connotations of death, destruction, pain, suffering, deprivation, isolation and restrictions that Israel has injected the word with"

-- Refaat Alareer, from Gaza Writes Back

#palestine #free gaza #free palestine #freepalastine🇵🇸 #we stand with palestine #ceasefire #gaza strip #israel #gaza #usa news #usa #twitter #quotes #phrases #quotes of the day #life quotes #refaat alareer #us politics

[mintflavoredart]

Refaat Alereer: If I die, let it be a tale

#refaat alareer #refaat in gaza #free gaza #poetry #illustration

[ahaura]

(Dec. 7)

Refaat Alareer's Youtube channel

#refaat alareer #palestine #📁.zip

[liriostigre]

Brian Cox reads “If I Must Die” by beloved Palestinian poet, teacher and martyr Refaat Alareer.

Refaat was killed on December 7th by an Israeli airstrike. This was the last poem he published.

#refaat alareer #palestine #poetry #brian cox #i linked the original tweet by @palfest and you can also find the video on their youtube channel also @palfest

[baby-girl-aaron-dessner]

Palestinian poet, Refaat Alareer

#Refaat was killed in an Israeli airstrike on 7 December 2023 #rest in power Refaat Alareer #rip #Refaat Alareer #if i must die #let it be a tale. #palestinian art #it’s so strange to continue life while a genocide is happening right before our eyes #free palestine #palestinian genocide #think of others #free gaza #palestine #poetry #palestinian poetry #writers and poets #poem #poems #writing #prose #stand with gaza #gazaunderattack #gaza #gaza genocide #gaza strip #pray for gaza #israel #palestinians #poems and quotes #poetic

[maxxxines]

read the e-book for free here

#free palestine #refaat alareer #rest in peace 💔

[sayruq]

#yemen #jerusalem #tel aviv #current events #palestine #free palestine #gaza #free gaza #news on gaza #palestine news #news update #war news #war on gaza #refaat alareer

[havingapoemwithyou]

If I Must Die by Refaat Alareer

Palestinian poet, writer, literature professor, and activist Dr. Refaat Alareer was killed on December 7th, 2023, in a targeted Israeli airstrike that also killed his brother, his sister, and four of her children.

Dr. Alareer was a beloved professor of literature and creative writing at the Islamic University of Gaza, where he taught since 2007.

This poem has been pinned to his twitter profile since November 1st, 2023.

#poetry #poem #Refaat Alareer #🇵🇸

[starryseas-tardisdreams]

Fuck you if you still plan to vote for Joe Biden. History will not remember you kindly.

#joe biden #free palestine #2024 elections #democrats #Palestine #israel #refaat alareer #gaza #anti zionisim #zionism

[heavenlyyshecomes]

new poem by Fady Joudah, in conversation with Refaat al-Areer's "If I Must Die."

#fady joudah #refaat alareer #poetry #palestine #mine #arablit #man im goin g to cry again

[tunamoth]

refaat alareer - "let it be a tale"

A Palestinian poet who was martyred by an Israeli air strike on 7th of December.

Translation by (@tameeolivefern)

Poem in English and Arabic:

إذا كان لا بد أن أموت

فعليك أن تحيا

لتقص قصتي

لتبيع أشيائي

لتشتري قطعة قماش

و بضعة خيوط

(لتكون بيضاء بذيل طويل)

حتى طفل في مكان ما في غزة

يحدق بالسماء

ينتظر اباه الذي غادر على عجل

بلا أن يودع أحدًا

حتى جسده

حتى نفسه -

يرى الطائرة الورقية طائرتي التي صنعتها

تحلق عاليا

و يظن لوهلة أن ملاكًا عاليا

يُعيد الحب

إذا كان لا بد أن أموت

لتجعلها تحضر الأمل

لتجعلها قصة

If I must die,

you must live to tell my story

to sell my things

to buy a piece of cloth

and some strings,

(make it white with a long tail)

so that a child, somewhere in Gaza

while looking heaven in the eye

awaiting his dad who left in a blaze-

and bid no one farewell

not even to his flesh

not even to himself-

sees the kite, my kite you made, flying up

above

and thinks for a moment an angel is there

bringing back love

If I must die

let it bring hope

let it be a tale

#currently my Arabi calligraphy is incomprehensible so apologies #palestine strike art #free palestine #palestine #from the river to the sea palestine will be free #refaat alareer #ceasefire #my artwork #watercolor #Arabic calligraphy

[hussyknee]

I woke up to the news about Refaat Alreer. I still feel cold. Imagine seeing someone talking on your TL every day, narrating what the genociders are doing, counting the dead and telling their stories, amplifying his colleagues in Palestinian activism and academia, advocating and pleading endlessly for a ceasefire, delivering blistering witticisms about Zionist propaganda and then...he and his whole family are dead.

Two of my favourite tweets by him, calling out the craven Western media for never naming Israel.

It feels like a funeral today. My whole TL full of his students and Palestinians mourning Refaat alongside writers and journalists and academics from all over the Global South. The only people who matter to us is us.

Meanwhile, Zionists are attacking us under our mourning tweets, circulating the tweet where he laughed at the monstrous lie of Hamas cooking a baby in an oven during Oct 7th, one of the lies that fuelled the slaughter that eventually killed him too.

This was his last tweet.

USAmerican disability activist Imani Barbarin's tweet today was partially motivated by Refaat's death.

I need to go offline for a while.

I leave you with Refaat's last poem that was his pinned tweet for over a month. When a storyteller dies, generations are robbed of universes. When a poet dies, the world loses a piece of its soul.

You can find Refaat's book "Gaza Writes Back" in my gdrive folder of Palestinian literature. I don't know where the royalties will go now, but please also try and find it in a bookstore or library.

#refaat alareer #palestinian poetry #palestinian literature #gaza genocide #palestinian genocide #genocide joe #fuck joe biden #free gaza #free palestine #gaza writes back #us politics #us government #vajra chandrasekera #imani barbarin #hebh jamal #western imperialism #western hypocrisy #knee of huss #gaza news