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Razan Masri Blog

http://razanmasri.com/ A beautiful life by a Middle-Eastern blogger. A blog by a Middle-Eastern. I love exploring, researching, finding and sharing.

I sees art and beauty in everything; Travel, Culture, Food, Literature, Architecture, Fashion and Positive Living. I love to learn and to teach, I love to live and to laugh, I wish to speak to the world as an Arab Woman using the most beautiful language through photographs and writing. Most of my photographs are taken with a Canon 70D

16/08/2021

Still Ammaning 🙄...
One of the most beautiful mosques in this city... The Blue Mosque at the Weibdeh neighborhood. This is the view from the Abdali Hospital where I delivered my two tees. 💛

22/05/2021

A Watermelon as The Palestinian Flag by the Palestinian Artist

The Story: following the Six Day War in 1967, it became a crime to raise a Palestinian flag in Israeli-controlled Gaza and the West Bank. To subvert the ban on the national colors, it is said that Palestinians would carry sliced watermelons through the region in a sign of protest. After the Oslo Accord in 1993, The New York Times reported that Palestinian men have been detained for raising watermelon slices in Gaza.

Today: we will continue to raise the Palestinian flag everyday in our hearts, minds and speech. We will continue to raise our flag around the world through our own ways until we free our people and our flag back into our homeland. We deserve to raise our flag from the river to the sea in Palestine. We deserve to get all our rights back as Palestinian to our homeland. We deserve to move around freely everywhere in Palestine. We demand our rights back... the right to be Palestinian, the right to feel Palestinian, the right to declare being Palestinian, and the right to feel proud about it!!!

It is our duty, our choice, our decision, us the third generation, the fourth and fifth to continue this journey until we get our rights back. All we have to do is to keep going with our flag, to call out for action, to speak up, to define ourselves, and to remember.... that we are not who we are without our dignity.

“The Israelis were extremely harsh in cracking down on any manifestation of Palestinian nationalism, and the more symbolic and the more visible, the angrier they would get,” explains Rashid Khalidi, “Palestine didn’t exist, the Palestinians didn’t exist, and anybody who claimed otherwise was in trouble.”

But we do exist. And because of the occupation we became a diasporic nation scattered around the world, and so we will take this to our advantage, to tell the world about who we are and how long we have been violated from our rights as Palestinians. We will raise our flags and voices until the world understands that standing with us is standing with humanity.

Image is from Flicker by Alan Dimmick

21/05/2021

Ceasefire or not... our people in Gaza still need our financial support to rebuild what has been destructed, destroyed and lost.

As of 20.05.2021, 232 people were killed including children and women, and more than 1,900 wounded, and over 75,000 Palestinians displaced and made homeless.

Please help through donations. Check out who is also doing direct support inside Gaza.

17/05/2021

It is different when we see something over social media, and when we see someone who is first hand affected by it.

I have relatives from Gaza. I have relatives in Gaza. But I am far away from all of it and like most of us trying to echo their voices, it is really something else when we hear it first hand.

I know some people are still defending Israel by saying it is self-defense against Hamas, or that there are Palestinians or Arabs being anti-semitic... well let me put it this way... Killing children no matter who they are is not okay! Killing mothers and elderly is not okay! Killing innocent civilians (men or woman) is not okay! If Israel thinks it is okay because Hamas is hiding between them, then by all means lets kill everybody because there are vicious people living between us all the time... so NO it is not okay! And this has nothing to do with semitism, we the Arabs are semitic!!!! And many Jews are also Arab!!!! So to those who are anti-semitic they are not one of us... this has nothing to do with the Jews... it all has to do with the Zionists who have been violating every human right against the Palestinian to make the Palestinian Land exclusively Jewish.
This is about the imbalanced power relations between Israel and Palestine. We the Palestinians are being silenced and censored ever since 1948... my stories on instagram dropped in views by 80%!!! This too, is not okay!!! Instagram, facebook and twitter are all violating the right of their users to express, write or speak against crimes that are committed everyday in our world today. So please Share and Speak louder, teach your children that we demand a world that is more just to all of humanity, that there is no superiority to one ethnicity over another, that we should not silence our throats when we see what is wrong taking place... it does not matter if you are Jewish, Christian, Muslim or of a different faith, it does not matter if you were an Arab, a Jew, Black or White... KILLING CHILDREN IS NOT OKAY!

11/05/2021

We have been silent and silenced for decades.... but Enough is Enough.....
Palestinians (every Palestinian) and even Arabs who have been denied rights to Palestine (the land that was always (pre 1948) open to the world, to all races, to all religions) are entitled to our rights back.... We demand a free Palestine (from Ras Al Naqoura down to Naqab) we demand our freedom to live, to mobility, to breathe..... We demand for the seperation wall to be taken down, to check points to be removed, to far right extreme terrorists to be kicked out... the leaders of the world failed us.... and its time we keep our voices LOUD for the sake of thousands of innocent children who are paying the price high....

10/05/2021

يا قدسُ.
Occupied day and night by what is happening in Jerusalem.... All we can do is pray for your protection.

30/04/2021

Travel: 2016, Ghent, Belgium.

I am obsessed with beautiful architecture. I travel to find them. I plan my days to be out in the streets to walk between the alleyways and wide roads. I feel like a flower blossoming while I surrender my wholesome wondering mind to the creativity spilled in the facades.

Ghent is one of the most beautiful cities I have seen in my life. My siblings make fun of me because I have many favorite cities in the world. My love for them is always identified by the surrealism of their architectural designs.

Are you crazy about beautiful architecture like myself? Which cities do you consider as the most beautiful?

29/04/2021

Food Recipe: Fatet Jaj - Chicken Fatteh

A very delicious Middle Eastern dish made out of layers of roasted/fried bread, rice, chicken and a very yummy yogurt mixture.

Fatteh is a common Levantine dish that is created with a champion ingredient. In this dish the champ is the chicken. Other Fatteh dishes are championed by eggplants or hummus or shawerma or foul (beans), and other ingredients ...

For this dish you will need:

Chicken breasts - cooked and shredded
Chicken stock
Lemon and green chili
Roasted pine nuts and almonds
Roasted or fried pita bread (cut into squares)
Rice
Yogurt mixed with Tahini, lemon, garlic and salt.

For the full recipe, check my blog and enjoy this delicious dish. This recipe is from my beloved mother who is a fantastic cook.

26/04/2021

Travel: 2017, Koh Samui, Thailand

Surreal Moments like this.

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