“There is no exchange rate for human lives, all lives are sacred and equal.”

Grateful to the Cleveland Review of Books for this searching, compassionate interview covering my book #PalestineWail, and to the courageous hearts of Shaymaa Mahmoud and John Brantingham who conducted it.

We spoke about #poetry as a vessel for shared humanity, about truth-telling amid censorship, and about the spiritual and moral reckoning our times demand.

At the heart of it: a refusal to dehumanize Palestinians, and a plea for compassion.

‘over 50,000 Palestinians, approximately one third of them under the age of eighteen, have been slaughtered. In fact, in The Lancet’s article “Counting the dead in #Gaza: difficult but essential” from July 2024, Rasha Khatib states “it is not implausible to estimate up to 186,000 or even more deaths’

Read Full Interview : https://www.clereviewofbooks.com/writing/how-hope-outlasts-despair-an-interview-with-yahia-lababidi

#FreePalestine 🇵🇸
#palestine #Gaza #israel #usa #news #politics #books

Yes, my Other, this is how
I always recognize you
Upward-reaching, and glad
Within wing's wind of a Great Song.

https://www.youtube.com/@Yahia.Lababidi #poetry #WritingCommunity #micropoetry #writing

In these divisive days of chaos and carnage, I'm honored to have new #poetry appear in the Journal of Bahá'í Studies, a publication dedicated to unity, #justice, and the #spiritual pursuit of #Peace 🙏

You can download a pdf of the journal, here: https://journal.bahaistudies.ca/online/issue/view/83

‘We are pleased to present two poems by Yahia Lababidi, “Wounded Healers” and “Inventory,” each of which highlights the paradoxical quality of the true hero who achieves inner and outer transformation through learned selflessness. We offer this issue to all those who “work hard / in dark caves to carve / space for such a #Light.”

— Michael Sabet, Editor of The Journal of Bahá’í Studies

With much gratitude to poetry editor, Peter E Murphy, for the blessed work he does on the page and off 😇

#writing #WritingCommunity #reading
#faith #inspiration

Welcome to our Guesthouse in #Egypt 🇪🇬

https://youtube.com/shorts/msoEoMhyDw8?si=CiZriKtdukb8EszR

#Airbnb #rent #travel #vacation #photography #homedecor #house

Happy to welcome guest # 2 in our country guesthouse, in #Egypt,

✨ALF LAYLA✨ (1001 Nights)

Book your Room with a View, near Giza Pyramids & Egyptian #museum , directly, through our website:

https://lnkd.in/e9XyBq2q

#airbnb #travel #photography #history
#rent

If you had told me as a teenager — which is when I began to write aphorisms — that one day I’d be invited to #Poland to take part in a Conference of International Aphorists, it would have sounded like a dream…

Even tonight, looking at the schedule, below, I can hardly believe my good fortune ✨

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#travel #WritingCommunity #poetry #philosophy #wisdom #news

My brother & I are happy to report that our Guesthouse in Egypt now has a (modest) presence, online — besides listings on #Airbnb & #bookingcom.

Kindly, share new #website link with anyone who might be interested:

https://sites.google.com/view/alflayla/home

Thank you 🙏🏼 ✨

#Egypt #travel

O God, I could be bounded in a nutshell and count myself a king of infinite space…

#Shakespeare, Hamlet

Converting our family mansion in #Egypt into an #AirBnb:

https://www.airbnb.com/rooms/1352938100261454552?viralityEntryPoint=1&s=76&source_impression_id=p3_1739274578_P3YZDFxjOQ3HJB6q

#travel #nature #photography

Contact me for more details 🙏🏼