Year: 2018
The Saudi Regime: A Reading List
The Saudi royal family has no moral authority to ever define or legislate Islam because Mecca and Medina fall in their contemporary borders. They are a wealthy and conservative petrostate. A quick glance at the headlines in recent years show how depraved and insulated they are.
- Yemen: 85,000 children may have died from starvation
- Jamal Khashoggi: Saudi Arabia admits murder was “premeditated”
- Saudi Shī’a: Sheikh Nimr al-Nimr and the Forgotten Shiites
- West Africa: The Struggle for Mali
- Dissidents: Female right-to-drive activists tortured
The Saudi regime has always been emboldened by favorable resources and geopolitics. The United States and Europe turns a blind eye because they need Saudi oil and a weapons buyer. Fellow Muslim countries look to Saudi for foreign aid and religious guidance. Let us not equate Saudi with Islam and let us hold our countries accountable to these alliances with this royal family. The Saudi people deserve better.
Holly
No Time to Waste
You have choices. Don’t let an algorithm or the fear of missing out make them for you. You are a human. Now more than ever, decide what is positive for you; the food you eat, the people who talk to, the politics you advocate, the music you listen to. The world is going to a dark place. Everything matters now.
Dame Una Palabra
En la tierra
de los mil poetas
escogí perderme,
acabe encontrándote.La tinta auguró nuestra historia
las dunas de tornaron olas,
cordilleras en tu espalda
e infinitud de estrellas.Sigo a tu lado,
me enseñaste a ver el mismo cielo
aún estando preso,
perdido en mitad de la ciudad
y el horizonte tornado de deseo.En la tierra de los míl poetas
nos descubrimos infinitos,
libres de sed,
huérfanos de nubes,
ahijados del oasis
y del futuro.Esta ciudad, es a veces,
un desierto más profundo
que el corazón,
suerte que llevo las alforjas
y en el puño, la ilusión
de que ya nada es finito.
— Pablo Urizal, Madrid