Writer, poet. Prose Editor @thealephreview, Co-Founder @risalamag. Alum @lifeatlums, @pu_lhr_official, @OxMst. Rep’d by @laurievida for @PFDAgents
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Mina Malik 🇵🇸 retweeted
Israel is bombarding, literally bombarding, two Middle East capitals, Beirut and Tehran, killing 100s of civilians, and yet the US and UK media continue to portray Iran as the threat to the region.
Israel has nukes, but Iran is the nuclear threat.
We live in Orwellian times.
Mina Malik 🇵🇸 retweeted
BREAKING
Spain’s MEP Irene Montero:
“No woman has ever been freed by American bombs or illegal aggression.
Not in Syria. Not in Iraq. Not in Lebanon. Not in Afghanistan.
And it will not happen in Iran either.
They hide behind women’s rights to justify their colonial wars.”
Mina Malik 🇵🇸 retweeted
Women are also less likely to receive bystander cpr partly because people get weird about touching breasts and partly because training doesn’t reflect real, diverse bodies. This is a real documented problem. But the moment you call it medical misogyny, people stop listening and
Mina Malik 🇵🇸 retweeted
i actually cannot believe that Hind Rajab's mother and little brother are STILL in gaza city PLEADING for help while some rich celebrities and filmmakers are making movies and money OFF HER MURDERED DAUGHTER.
SHAME!!!
‼️The Voice of Hind Rajab wins Silver Lion in Venice — as Hind’s mother, surrounded by Israeli tanks in Gaza City, issues a “last cry for help”
Tunisian director Kaouther Ben Hania’s docudrama on 5-year-old Hind Rajab — killed alongside her family after hours trapped in a car under Israeli fire — won the Grand Jury Prize (Silver Lion), the festival’s second-highest honor, after premiering to a 24-minute standing ovation.
Meanwhile, Hind’s mother, Wissam Hamada, has issued an urgent plea from Gaza City, where Israeli tanks surround her neighborhood as the military moves to ethnically cleanse the city of its 1 million residents. Living there with her surviving 5-year-old son, she describes the siege as “a living hell” and says: “This could be my last cry for help. I am begging every influential person, every celebrity, every connection to save me… Tanks have surrounded our neighborhood. We must leave, but we have nowhere to go… I want to live. I want to protect my family. Please save us.”
Hamada has also appealed for financial support to survive. Her desperate plea and the ongoing Israeli assault on Gaza City have gone unmentioned in the glowing international coverage of the film’s success.
Mina Malik 🇵🇸 retweeted
Israel has killed more than one Palestinian child per hour, 24 hours a day, for 23 months.
They want you to believe this staggering number of children slaughtered is an accident.
GAZA: New figures show 20,000 children killed in nearly 23 months of war.
That's more than one Palestinian child killed by Israeli forces every hour.
Our press release:
savethechildren.org.uk/news/…
Mina Malik 🇵🇸 retweeted
there are a lot of interesting jinn in middle eastern folklore but one of my favorite is the ten-headed yemeni jinn who would ambush people and challenge them to a poetry battle. I kinda love that his sole aspiration was to be the soundcloud rapper of his day
ALT Seven headed horned brown jinn sitting down
Mina Malik 🇵🇸 retweeted
#Pakistan: Today marks 5 months since human rights defender @MahrangBaloch_ was arbitrarily detained. Her arrest on multiple charges is unjust and a reprisal against her activism for the #Baloch community. We call for her immediate release & others detained for their activism
🇵🇰#Pakistan: It has been 3 months since human rights defender Dr. Mahrang Baloch was unjustly arrested by police during a peaceful sit-in to protest police violence. She is being detained in Hudda Jail.
We call for her immediate & unconditional release.
frontlinedefenders.org/en/ca…
Hearing @eloosunde speak at Foyle’s last evening to send her new book, Necessary Fiction, out into the world was a special kind of magic — a joy and camaraderie that felt like home. If you haven’t read her work, remedy this IMMEDIATELY 🫶🏼
Mina Malik 🇵🇸 retweeted
Started a new series of columns titled "Anatomy of the Qissa" on the poetics of the qissa genre, and how to interpret them.
The first 2 columns in the series are about قصہ چھبیلی بھٹیاری (Chhabili the Innkeeper)
Anatomy of the Qissa Part 1: dawn.com/news/1908361/column…
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Mina Malik 🇵🇸 retweeted
Umar Hayat must be prosecuted without delay. No loopholes, no leniency.
All eyes on our law enforcement. All eyes on the courts.
#JusticeForSanaYousaf
Mina Malik 🇵🇸 retweeted
The most ferocious airstrike in the history of Palestine
A historic holocaust, as described by the Hebrew media
Mina Malik 🇵🇸 retweeted
"Gaza, nothing's impossible."
Yaqeen Hammad was killed today. Here, she describes how she made this contraption to cook despite Israel's cutting off of gas. May you be a bird in paradise, Yaqeen.
Mina Malik 🇵🇸 retweeted
What does it mean to possess the most powerful military force in the Middle East, and to have the whole world supplying you with weapons—just to fight 2 million starving people in Gaza?!
This is the filthiest occupation humanity has ever known.
Pls gormint can we keep access to this app for Ali Olomi and meme supply
gather around habibis, story time about how i had my second jinn encounter.
After what happened last time my friend, M kinda became fixated on whether what we saw was a jinn or something else so he came up with a plan: let’s seek out the jinn and whew did things get weird…
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Mina Malik 🇵🇸 retweeted
The world should know that India is the aggressor here. India has started this war based on pure fiction and outright lies. If Pakistan retaliates, it will be a defensive war against a belligerent state that wants to dominate and overpower other nation-states in the region.