#Poems

In the last month @TamimBarghouti posted a series of 5 videos situating his poem ‘Burda’ in literary & historical context of poems by Busiri & Shawqiفي الشهر الماضي تميم البرغوثي
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I want to end our #CoReadingVirus journey together by gathering & celebrating some of the creative work that's arisen in response to Nan's work/the Cairngorms. Please do add to this
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Thread With all the talk around the ‘westernisation’ of Maulana Rumi, I want to revisit Edward Said’s ground-breaking ‘Orientalism’, which received a lot of flack, as does anything that attempts
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THREAD: Here’s a story from Romania about how our newsroom at DoR (@decatorevista) is navigating the pandemic thus far, what decisions we took with our journalism, and what the road
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My favourite poems on ‘This Little Light’ are: 1. Wells of salvation 2. Joy unspeakable 3. No fear in me4. God’s pull5. The resurrection man Jesus6. Death#ThisLittleLight This points me
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And—because it's Sunday, and it's late, and we're nerds—here's a thread of us naming (and fawning over) some of the lines of the works published in Issue 3 (1/?): "Tell
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A thread of Sana's smiles and laughters@ishehnaaz_gill #ShehnaazGill A smile is the best makeup any girl can wear#ShehnaazGill The most beautiful curve on a woman’s body is her smile#ShehnaazGill She
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Hey there’s a teacher out there who is saying she got fired for teaching a poem about Asian American racism, and I don’t know all the facts, but I am
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So... this may seem a little random but I’m watching Midsommar and since my last post about Germanic traditions and my specific ancestry seemed to interest some of you, why
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We plan to bring regular suggestions of resources you can use to explore your subject interests at home during lockdown. We'll create threads themed by subject, but don’t be afraid
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Don’t think I can talk about my second stint living in Lagos without talking about Dan Foster. May not seem that important today but he was unquestionably a top dog
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Why I've Stopped Teaching Of Mice And Men.I made the decision this year not to teach OMAM any more. The book still flourishes in other schools at KS3, no doubt
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Santina Sunday’s Damn. It’s been some time since I’ve posted and I had to breathe & let go of that weird guilt that I felt because of it. I just
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#QuarantineRant (Thread)File under #Dictatorship+#white/academicPrivilege +#MyComplicity: Sometime around 2009/10, a person I have high regards in #Eritrea asked me to select Tigrinya s. stories with the intention of producing an English
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Threads. How I got into top universities:A thread about tips for studying an learning in general.https://twitter.com/aqilazme/status/1255284189332733952 Refuting Surah Corona—an attempted imitation of the Qur’an:An in-depth analysis of
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#IndieApril is here! Last year I read/reviewed over 20 books by #indieauthors & I’m ready to do it again. I’m a fast reader & have KU so list your books
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