Do any of you know anything about an old Palestinian festival called “Birth of the Prophet Reuben” or “Mawlid el Nabi Rubin”? It was celebrated in Southern Yaffa before 1948 and it’s considered one of many Palestinian
religious festivals that died after 1948
Anyone?
Anyways I was digging around and I found out my grandparents used to celebrate it, and I also found out about the other festivals that died after 1948 (i.e. after the Nakba)
So far I found that we had festivals for Moses, Job, Jethro, Dhul-Kifl (Ezekiel), Ali Bin Aleem and Reuben most of these festivals were celebrated by both Palestinian Muslims and Christians.
These were a part of our culture that died after 1948
So I did more digging on Nabi Rubin festival and found some interesting information about it.
So here are a couple of the festival that I found from 1933:
Anyways the festival attracted about 30,000 to 40,000 Palestinians annually (~5% of the Palestinian population back then) mainly from Yaffa, Lydda, and Ramla and was celebrated by Muslims, Christians, and Jews.
And it would last throughout the entire month of August, temporary coffeehouses, restaurants, and stalls selling food and other merchandise were set up, and people sang popular songs, and danced dabkah. Sufi dervishes would hold dhikr sessions, and attendees would watch horse races, magic shows, and listened to sermons from poets.
And this festival has been celebrated since at least the 13th or 15th century until 1948.
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Green Party’s Jill Stein on Democracy Now! (via thatcoolaunt)
I had come to Paris with no money and this meant that in those early years I lived mainly among the les miserables - and, in Paris, le miserables are Algerian. They sleep four or five or six to a room, and they slept in shifts, they were treated like dirt, and they scraped such sustenance as they could off the filthy, unyielding Paris stones.
The French called them lazy because they appeared to spend most of their time sitting around, drinking tea, in their cafés. But they were not lazy. They were mostly unable to find work, and their rooms were freezing. (French students spent most of their time in cafés too, for the same reason but no one called them lazy.)
The Arab cafés were warm and cheap, and they were together there. They could not, in the main, afford the French cafés, nor in the main, were they welcome there. And, though they spoke French, and had been, in a sense, produced by France, they were not at home in Paris, no more at home than I.
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James Baldwin - “No Name in the Street” (via thatcoolaunt)
❝I learned early that crying out in protest could accomplish things. My older brothers and sister had started to school when, sometimes, they would come in and ask for a buttered biscuit or something and my mother, impatiently, would tell them no. But I would cry out and make a fuss until I got what I wanted. I remember well how my mother asked me why I couldn’t be a nice boy like Wilfred; but I would think to myself that Wilfred, for being so nice and quiet, often stayed hungry. So, early in life, I had learned that if you want something, you had better make some noise.❞
Malcolm X, The Autobiography of Malcolm X (via thatcoolaunt)
❝[M]en who share household and child-rearing responsibilities with women are mistaken if they think that this act of choice, often buttressed by the gratitude and admiration of others, is anything like the woman’s experience of being forcibly socialized into these tasks and of having others perceive this as her natural function in the scheme of things.❞
Uma Narayan, “The Project of Feminist Epistemology: Perspectives from a Nonwestern Feminist” (1989)
❝White people are a very recent invention, and I do say invention. In America it is very clear that many people came here for many complex reasons, but they were not white before they got here. They were Irish or Polish or English or German, they didn’t become white until they got here. And they had to become white in self-defense because I was here. And I was here for them, to work for them to keep them white.❞ James Baldwin (via thatcoolaunt)
