Palestine

2025/Jul/24
in Book, Writing, Life, Palestine, Site Update
3 min read

Less Than Two Months

Yesterday, the book was two months away from launching in Canada. Today it is one day less than that.

I might be a day late again with this update, but that's not too bad and, even though I'll never be satisfied by how much work I have been able to put into marketing "Under The Full and Crescent Moon", I have to be kind to myself and realize I did quite a lot this week, and this month overall.

And of course, meanwhile, the people of Gaza are starving to death and I am helpless in the face of it because of the leaders of the 'free world'.

2025/Jul/9
in Advocacy, Palestine, Current Events
4 min read

Islamophobic attacks continue

Zohran Mamdani, Democratic Nominee for Mayor of New York City, has faced constant attacks targeting him for his faith since his campaign for Mayor started to see success.¹

On the 2nd of July 2025, one day after Canada Day, a Muslim woman was swarmed in the city of Osahwa, her hijab pulled off of her as she was stomped in the head.²

Three Palestinian men were shot in Burlington Vermont for the sin of speaking Arabic and wearing keffiyehs, one of them will never walk again. ³

Six year old Wadea al-Fayoume was stabbed to death by his landlord in Plainfield Township, who yelled "You Muslims must die." ⁴

2025/Jul/1
in Advocacy, Palestine, Current Events
2 min read

Happy Canada Day

Happy Canada Day everyone. Let's take the opportunity to talk about something our Prime Minister, Mark Carney said on CNN in late June 2025. He said, and I am paraphrasing slightly that we cannot have peace in the Middle East unless we have a 'Zionist, if you will, Palestinian state' that recognizes the right of Israel to 'not live in fear'.

This is so incredibly insane that I am left wondering what Canadian values even are anymore. Let's quickly analyze this.

2025/Jun/29
in Islam, Advocacy, Palestine, Current Events
6 min read

Being Shia

Us Shia people are in the news a lot lately. What with the groups and countries that are directly resisting Israel outside of Palestine being Shia, and Zohran Mamdani, the Democratic nominee for Mayor of New York City being Shia as well. And since it's the start of the Islamic Month of Muharram, which is an incredibly important time for us. It's a good time to talk about what that means.

2025/Jun/25
in Book, Writing, Life, Palestine, Current Events
4 min read

Time is running away

The three month countdown to the book launch officially began two days ago and I wish I had more in the hours in the day to do the novel justice in my marketing efforts. Still it is what it is and Alhamdulillah there is so much that I was able to do in this month.

2025/May/28
in Book, Writing, Life, Palestine, Islam
2 min read

Time is running away

So here we are less than four months away from the launch of my book and I'm five days late in making my monthly post.

It's kind of reflective of where I find myself. It's been a very busy month for me personally but my book marketing has suffered as a result.

So instead of giving an overview of how my month went as I usually do I want to talk about why I think I haven't been focusing on getting the word out about "Under the Full and Crescent Moon".

2025/May/22
in Advocacy, Palestine
2 min read

The Horror of Israeli logic spreads even further

On the 21st of May 2025, two staff members of the Israeli embassy in Washington were gunned down in what seems to be a premediated attack in Washington D.C, the capital of the United States of America. The two were not armed, they were not combatants.

It should go without saying that causing any injury to non-combatants is horrific and an act worthy of condemnation.

There are three takeaways here though, that if not realized and acted upon will keep the situation of the world degrading further and further.

2025/May/6
in Advocacy, Palestine
2 min read

Two quick thoughts I'm making videos on

First. The problem isn't that Israel is Jewish

The problem is that it's European.

People who say that it's the Jewish side of Israel that is causing it to be a murderous ethno-supremacist genocidal apartheid state are being anti-Semitic. All of that comes from the European part of Israel's nature.

2025/Apr/23
in Book, Writing, Life, Site Update, Palestine
3 min read

Life Events and Lack of Focus

In my end of March blog post I stated that I wanted this month to be far more focused on marketing my book.

That mostly did not work as expected. But still I was able to get stuff done and it has been an eventful month.

2025/Apr/23
in Book, Review, Palestine
4 min read

Review of If I Must Die

If you do not wish to read further then the TL;DR is:

Summary: This is a collection of short form poetry and prose by one of the many shining lights of Palestinian literature, Refaat Alareer. It feels like both a journal and journalism as it describes the reality of Palestinian life under Israeli occupation and oppression.

My conclusion: This book proves one thing more than anything else. Israel is built on myths that shatter on contact with Palestinian reality. Refaat Alareer's words, demonstrate that reality with stunning clarity and is necessary reading.

This review has been posted on other platforms with code words to avoid suppression. The version here does not.