Sozan

Born in Germany, living in Amman, Jordan. Writer, Translator (mostly fiction, ask me for a quote if you like). Unapologetically muslima.
No life on this planet if we don't get together and take care of it by reducing #GlobalWarming.
#Palestine #BDS
#ClimateCrisis

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2024-10-27 06:44:57

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Typos ... I do my best to find them all but once the book is published I will always find one more - with proofreader or without.
But this made me consider how much we came to expect perfection - an artificial perfection, if I compare originals from earlier centuries when there was no organized orthography as a norm. How important is this norm that often makes people fear they are not good enough? (I don't like typos, but these thoughts keep coming up in my head).
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2024-10-27 06:31:55

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If you want to avoid Amazon, yes, unfortunately. That is one reason why I don't condemn A.s book selling and publishing site. I work for SP authors who make a living there - lots of them would not find a publisher, or, they would get so small amounts that it would not make a living.

2024-10-27 06:25:53

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When I see decisions of publishers I am glad that self publishing is getting more common. Those gatekeepers have been unchallenged long enough. Yes, SP has its problems - but it presents a great opportunity for voices to be heared that no publisher would want to bring out in the open.

2024-10-25 03:20:47

Live: Israel kills 3 journalists in south Lebanon, new ‘massacre’ in Gaza
https://aje.io/zs30s7

2024-10-24 05:23:12

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And winter is coming. Here in Amman this morning under 10°C, somtimes cold wind - without shelter or warm clothes and starved this is getting worse and worse. Looking at our grandchildren and thinking about those who need to be kept warm in Gaza and whose parents are struggling - or dead.
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2024-10-20 04:02:08

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I'm glad she still speaks up and is doing this. Please send me a link if anything is available online. Glad you got a ticket! Go, Toronto!

2024-10-20 03:43:11

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so bad?

2024-10-14 03:15:21

Prepping for the worst: Election workers anticipate threats in US vote
https://aje.io/snegei

2024-10-11 03:54:31

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what a beautiful picture!

2024-10-08 04:47:44

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I pray not - but I am afraid it might. People here are of course very angry about having to sit there and watch there neighbours killed - so many have family in Palestine. The government doing their utmost to keep out of the war. But Israel is completely unpredictable, a nightmare for every decent politician. The one reason why Israel might not chose to attack Jordan is that here you have nothing like Hamas or Hisbollah. Plus, the US would not like it. Bitter, still, having to say so

2024-10-08 04:42:16

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I read about it - it hits hard. Sometimes I imagine still living in Germany and working as a lawyer as I used to ... thanks God I am here.

2024-10-08 04:40:12

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And if I imagine a Hitler with today's technical possibilities, when you actually cannot hide anywhere anymore, I feel absolutely sick.
But don't think the German's are wiser: now already the current gov makes laws that in the hands of a right wing government would be complete terror. Legally.

2024-10-05 18:16:42

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looks like. But reminds me of Germany.

2024-10-05 17:30:23

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that's sick.

2024-09-28 12:14:32

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Jein. Sagen wir mal, die Kurden haben noch eine gewisse Lobby.

2024-09-28 08:57:09

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let's see if this is true.

2024-09-27 06:53:48

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I read about it - in an area with as good as no public transportiation they are just leaving people who are too poor or too sick to drive to die. Incredible.

2024-09-18 07:42:03

Does #Lebanon have the right to defend itself?
Let's see.

2024-09-06 13:43:56

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This is a pattern - as I remember Rachel Corrie, Furkan Dogan (on the Mavi Marmara), Shereen Abu Akhlah ... as long as they are on the side of the #Palestinians , USA damn care.

2024-09-06 13:32:48

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... and the USA will not say a word.

2024-09-02 14:59:15

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Israel's real target: Palestinian children.

2024-08-28 12:08:58

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I don't believe it. Just one or two hours ago I read some decent people here complaining about the German media for example - it is getting worse and worse, not only about Israel, but in general repeating opinions which are simply fascist and poisoning everybodies minds. And look at France or UK - not to mention the USA.

2024-08-28 10:45:08

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who will make them leave, though?

2024-08-28 09:14:52

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This feels like a very bad step on the way to ethnically cleanse the West Bank, too. Since long I am afraid they will use the fog of their #genocide in #Gaza to proceed in the West Bank - an area they want much more than the Gaza strip. Since October Israeli attacks have been escalating, up to air attacks. If they start now "evacuating" one piece after the other there will be only concentration camps in the end.

2024-08-23 08:22:19

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Sob, sob. But they send the weapons and the money to cause this "heartbreak".
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2024-08-06 04:12:41

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I can just wish you the best and hope the judge and the jury will see they got the wrong person accused.
The flyer is great.

2024-08-04 06:13:42

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I saw one of the videos last night ... this sounds awful, more a pogrom than a riot, and just now, when I was having a look at news in German I saw they just treat it as making a racekt or something like this. Incredible.

2024-08-02 04:04:32

Al Jazeera refutes ‘baseless’ Israeli allegations against Ismail al-Ghoul https://aje.io/2dqyh6

2024-07-31 04:47:58

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Sitting here in Amman feels like I want to duck. Like in spring ... only worse. We got unfortunately used to bad news every day, but this feels like ... Sarajevo?

2024-07-31 04:31:38

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a lot too much. Feels like a bad movie playing in 1940.

2024-07-31 03:42:53

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airstrike.

2024-07-07 06:37:38

Check it out: The Gaza project - journalism in/about #Gaza .
Don't forget the many members of the press that Israel killed. And Israel also targets their families.
https://forbiddenstories.org/why-we-did-the-gaza-project/

2024-06-24 13:14:41

This is frightening. It can cost people who support #BDS a lot in Germany - and I am not talking just about money.
https://www.wionews.com/world/anti-israel-antisemitic-germanys-intel-agency-labels-bds-movement-as-suspected-extremist-case-732957

2024-06-16 06:58:32

The heatwave has arrived here, too. Here, in Amman, it is bearable - 40°C with low humidity and often some air is manageable, in the Jordan Valley it is much worse (dead sea!) and I think of the people in #Gaza who have hardly a roof over the head, the tents heating up and no electricity for fans or AC - and not enough clean water to drink or shower. It is brutal.

2024-06-09 12:54:41

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tried to pinn it on one of them or suspected them to be involved in crime - no one bothered to compare the CCTV pictures with the list of wanted Nazis. Seven years later one of them confessed (long story, short version).
For years the victims were under suspicion.
I walked home later that evening, glas shards cracking under my feet.
Twenty years. I see the pictures of the street party they have today, and the lying faces of the politicians.
Oh, and: the party is late. There might be a bomb.

2024-06-09 12:50:42

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Then I heared his voice. He had been downstairs, looking in the street. As he usually took a small back lane to go home he had arrived just after the bomb went off, before the police closed all entrances to the street. If he had not been later than usual because he had gone to bring something for me, he might have walked right in.
Thank God no one was killed that day - a miracle, the bomb was filled with long, thick nails.
As most of the neigbours were immigrants, the police immediately

2024-06-09 12:47:49

9th June 2004. Twenty years ago. On my way home from work I was stopped by a group of people standing in front of barrier band - no one was allowed to enter the street where I lived. I asked some neighbours, why. "A bomb exploded in there, maybe one hour ago, they made us all leave." I felt sick. I tried to call my husband who should have come home about one hour ago, no answer. Again and again. No answer. Ten minutes, fifteen minutes - one of the longest quarter of an hour of my life.

2024-06-06 02:29:22

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I agree. I think the published numbers are way too low and still some blame the Gaza health ministry for "exaggerating".

2024-05-27 04:37:08

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Actually, even AJ does not show the worst pictures. What I saw through other channels I will never be able to unsee, nor, I think, will anyone else.
I am an old lady. I sit here grinding my teeth and wondering what I would do if twenty or thirty years younger and knowing how to shoot.
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2024-05-27 02:16:09

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they are, but more the Arabic channel. Try to find it, a lot of material shown there does not appear on the English channel. No matter the language, the pictures and films speak for themselves. #AJ #aljazeera

2024-05-10 14:47:44

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how pretty!