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'The worst sin toward our fellow creatures is not to hate them, it's to be indifferent to them.' -George Bernard Shaw
Aww. humansofnewyork: I think I just felt jealous of a dog.

Aww.

humansofnewyork:

I think I just felt jealous of a dog.

1 month ago
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Ninja Iranian women! How freaking awesome

3 months ago
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insaniyat:

portlandwithyou: A day late, and a dollar short, but I love it. 

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7 months ago
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fromme-toyou: Caught in the rain

fromme-toyou:

Caught in the rain

8 months ago
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1 year ago
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extranuance: Pisa of Paris c.1920s

extranuance:

Pisa of Paris c.1920s

1 year ago
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robot-heart: Il était une fois… (by elBidule)

robot-heart:

Il était une fois… (by elBidule)

1 year ago
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> Sao Paulo: A City Without Ads

In 2007, the world’s fourth-largest metropolis and Brazil’s most important city, São Paulo, became the first city outside of the communist world to put into effect a radical, near-complete ban on outdoor advertising.

1 year ago
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Theme: Cavalcade
My other blog that I use more often. Follow me there!

Dammit, I wish tumblr would let us switch the primary blog grr

3 months ago
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israelfacts: Last-ditch effort to save a unique Palestinian village Lifta, the best-kept out of handful of remaining Nakba villages, will be demolished to make way for a housing project for affluent Jews The Society for Preservation of Israel Heritage Sites is joining the campaign to save the remaining houses of the Palestinian village Lifta, at the western entrance of modern Jerusalem. Lifta, the best-kept of hundreds of abandoned Palestinian villages, is about to be demolished in order to make way for a new Jewish neighborhood. According to a report by the daily paper Maariv, Itzik Shviki, manager of Jerusalem district in the Society, has filed a motion to the Jerusalem municipality. “The Society for Preservation of Israel Heritage Sites is demanding from the municipality of Jerusalem and from the Interior Ministry to create a [preservation] plan for upper Lifta,” Shviki told Maariv. “Most of the historical homes that are under the threat of demolition should be included in a comprehensive plan for preservation and development. And all current zoning plans should be stopped.” Lifta is one of the few remaining Nakba villages, whose residents were deported or fled during the war of 1948. Israel has prevented the Palestinians who left their homes from returning to them, and when the war ended, it confiscated their lands and property. Almost all of the hundreds of empty Palestinian villages were destroyed after the war and in subsequent decades. In Lifta, 55 of more than 400 hundred homes survived, together with the original cemetery, vineyards and a pool that collects rainwater. Because nobody lived in Lifta, it was left undeveloped. Except for the damage caused by time, tourists and homeless people who occupied some of the empty homes, parts of the village remain as they were left by the Palestinians who lived there more than 60 years ago, making it a unique historical site. Recognizing the special value of Lifta led Israel to declare the village and its surroundings a natural reserve. In 2004, a new zoning plan removed the special protection from Lifta. Plan No. 6036, approved in August 2006, designates the land for the construction of 268 housing units (an extremely small number, suggesting they are intended for a more affluent population), a hotel and commercial areas. The new Lifta plan was approved by all the necessary planning authorities, but the sale of lots on the site was stopped after a court petition was filed by various organizations, including representatives of refugees from Lifta, Israeli-Palestinian civil society organizations and Rabbis for Human Rights. The motion is still being heard by the Jerusalem District Court. Photo: The ruins of Lifta, a Palestinian village near Jerusalem (Ester Inbar)

israelfacts:

Last-ditch effort to save a unique Palestinian village

Lifta, the best-kept out of handful of remaining Nakba villages, will be demolished to make way for a housing project for affluent Jews

The Society for Preservation of Israel Heritage Sites is joining the campaign to save the remaining houses of the Palestinian village Lifta, at the western entrance of modern Jerusalem. Lifta, the best-kept of hundreds of abandoned Palestinian villages, is about to be demolished in order to make way for a new Jewish neighborhood.

According to a report by the daily paper Maariv, Itzik Shviki, manager of Jerusalem district in the Society, has filed a motion to the Jerusalem municipality. “The Society for Preservation of Israel Heritage Sites is demanding from the municipality of Jerusalem and from the Interior Ministry to create a [preservation] plan for upper Lifta,” Shviki told Maariv. “Most of the historical homes that are under the threat of demolition should be included in a comprehensive plan for preservation and development. And all current zoning plans should be stopped.”

Lifta is one of the few remaining Nakba villages, whose residents were deported or fled during the war of 1948. Israel has prevented the Palestinians who left their homes from returning to them, and when the war ended, it confiscated their lands and property.

Almost all of the hundreds of empty Palestinian villages were destroyed after the war and in subsequent decades. In Lifta, 55 of more than 400 hundred homes survived, together with the original cemetery, vineyards and a pool that collects rainwater. Because nobody lived in Lifta, it was left undeveloped. Except for the damage caused by time, tourists and homeless people who occupied some of the empty homes, parts of the village remain as they were left by the Palestinians who lived there more than 60 years ago, making it a unique historical site.

Recognizing the special value of Lifta led Israel to declare the village and its surroundings a natural reserve.

In 2004, a new zoning plan removed the special protection from Lifta. Plan No. 6036, approved in August 2006, designates the land for the construction of 268 housing units (an extremely small number, suggesting they are intended for a more affluent population), a hotel and commercial areas.

The new Lifta plan was approved by all the necessary planning authorities, but the sale of lots on the site was stopped after a court petition was filed by various organizations, including representatives of refugees from Lifta, Israeli-Palestinian civil society organizations and Rabbis for Human Rights. The motion is still being heard by the Jerusalem District Court.

Photo: The ruins of Lifta, a Palestinian village near Jerusalem (Ester Inbar)

7 months ago
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8 months ago
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Ramdan Palooza!

Ramadhan Kareem everyone!

Inshallah it will be a great month for all of us, and hopefully we will all better ourselves and keep any spirituality we gain during this month for the rest of the year.

I thought it might be nice to sort of smush together some of my favorite speeches, advice, duas, and invaluable Ramadhan resources ( and some that I haven’t thouroughly gone through myself but found interesting) for you guys to go through and use, iA. So, happy browsing! And feel free to add anything you find relevant in the comments :)

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Feel free to share this note/ forward it to anyone who might gain something from it! And if the links don’t work, let me know and feel free to copy/paste them ni your browsers.

May everyone’s Ramadhan be blessed!

<3 Zainab

10 months ago
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1 year ago
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Marking the landscape

robot-heart:

“There is nothing in which the birds differ more from man than the way in which they can build and yet leave a landscape as it was before.”

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Robert Lynd

yes its true and it’s amazing.  But I don’t know if that is necessarily a good thing or something which we should aspire towards. I love nature and for years I was going with the supposed ‘counter-culture’ back-to-nature movement, and don’t get me wrong I still believe that harmony with nature is very important to maintain and that it should be reflected in my work, but now I don’t think “changing the landscape” is a bad thing. Of course, destroying the landscape is another thing entirely. But the beauty of humanity is in their ability to do exactly that, leave their mark upon the earth. God gave us our intellect and our gorgeous creative abilities to build, to create, to imagine, and to put into action that which was previously only in our minds. Something animals can never do. We leave a history behind, a story of what we have done, what we believed, and how we have progressed. Unlike animals, we are not a continuous cycle of the same, not an everlasting sameness without change or ‘progress’ save in the biological or evolutionary sense. We leave behind glorious cities, erected monuments of our heroes and what we might see as our successes, and we create a habitat that improves on nature and we provide for ourselves what we cannot find, and create what we can only desire. Because we are not simply animals.

1 year ago
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THE SEVEN COMMANDMENTS

1. Whatever goes upon two legs is an enemy.
2. Whatever goes upon four legs, or has wings, is a friend.
3. No animal shall wear clothes.
4. No animal shall sleep in a bed.
5. No animal shall drink alcohol.
6. No animal shall kill any other animal.
7. All animals are equal.”
George Orwell, Animal Farm.
1 year ago
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