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Yahia Lababidi

Fort Lauderdale
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Author of 16 books 🕊️ Work in @readliberties, Salmagundi, @worldlittoday, AGNI, Plough, @Sojourners, @DAWNmenaorg.

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They Wept Before the City Knew

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By Yahia Lababidi
| Nonprofit Quarterly Verified
Credit: Rob Pumphrey on Unsplash This Fourth of July, as the United States turns toward its founding promises, I find myself thinking of the dead who are made difficult to name. I have lived here more than eighteen years, long enough to know that remembrance is a sacred labor, and that you can read a country by whom it permits its people to grieve.
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A Letter to the World

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By Yahia Lababidi, Aine Creedon
| Nonprofit Quarterly Verified
Image Credit: RafahKid Kid on Wikimedia Commons NPQ publishes this letter as part of our ongoing #WeTheCivic: America 250 series. At its foundation, #WeTheCivic reflects our broader editorial conviction that democracy’s meaning is tested not by what we celebrate, but by whose voices we allow ourselves to hear. Inside borders, and outside them.
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Taha Muhammad Ali and the Lamp That Refuses to Go Out

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By Yahia Lababidi, S Index
| World Literature Today
This page is available to subscribers. Click here to signin or get access. Panorama of Nazareth by malajscy / Stock.adobe.com God does not change the condition of a people until they change what is within themselves. —Qur’an 13:11 reflects on Palestinian poet Taha Muhammad Ali, whose poems tend the flame of conscience. When Taha Muhammad Ali (1931–2011) read his poem “Revenge,” his voice carried no trace of fury.
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