Karim Wafa-Al Hussaini

Karim Wafa-Al Hussaini (@karimwafa.bsky.social):

To remain neutral in the face of systemic violence is not an act of peace. It is complicity dressed in silence.

Karim Wafa-Al Hussaini (@karimwafa.bsky.social):

Bombing for peace is like burning books to promote literacy.

Karim Wafa-Al Hussaini (@karimwafa.bsky.social):

Tired of hearing the Middle East being called a region of ‘instability and chaos’ like we chose this. Maybe look at who made it unstable, invaded, and divided it first.

Karim Wafa-Al Hussaini (@karimwafa.bsky.social):

Empathy didn’t vanish overnight. It was stripped away, piece by piece, until cruelty felt normal and compassion felt radical.

Karim Wafa-Al Hussaini (@karimwafa.bsky.social):

i think we forget that growth doesn’t always look like hustle. sometimes it looks like getting enough sleep. texting back slower. wanting less. choosing quiet over chaos. not everything has to be loud or impressive. sometimes it’s just you, finally being okay with being a softer version of yourself.

Karim Wafa-Al Hussaini (@karimwafa.bsky.social):

don’t forget to whisper sacred prayers because the ancestors are listening

Karim Wafa-Al Hussaini (@karimwafa.bsky.social):

meaning of the Juneteenth flag

Karim Wafa-Al Hussaini (@karimwafa.bsky.social):

Calling for justice should never be controversial. It should be the baseline of any society that claims to be civilised.

Karim Wafa-Al Hussaini (@karimwafa.bsky.social):

My toxic trait is thinking I’d survive in the wild just because I watched a documentary with subtitles.

Karim Wafa-Al Hussaini (@karimwafa.bsky.social):

This is the nicest thing someone has told me this week. May you be blessed 💐

Karim Wafa-Al Hussaini (@karimwafa.bsky.social):

It’s easy to feel like the world is ending. Drones in the sky. Screens in our hands. Memory on fire. But even now, I pour water for the spirits. For the ancestors. I whisper prayers before I leave the house. I wear amulets. I speak to crows. Dystopia is real. But so is resistance.

Karim Wafa-Al Hussaini (@karimwafa.bsky.social):

If your peace requires silence about injustice, then it is not peace. It’s privilege.

Karim Wafa-Al Hussaini (@karimwafa.bsky.social):

Happy Juneteenth ✊🏽💚

Karim Wafa-Al Hussaini (@karimwafa.bsky.social):

Gaza is a graveyard and the world watches with deaf ears and blind eyes, burying its conscience beneath the rubble of silence.

Karim Wafa-Al Hussaini (@karimwafa.bsky.social):

The road to fascism is paved with people telling you not to overreact.

Karim Wafa-Al Hussaini (@karimwafa.bsky.social):

The world watched a people erased in real time, and called it complicated. As the bodies fell, as the children vanished beneath broken concrete, as voices turned to dust, leaders chose profit over life. History won’t ask how it happened. It will ask how humans lost their humanity.

Karim Wafa-Al Hussaini (@karimwafa.bsky.social):

If your civilisation is based on destroying others, then maybe it was never a civilisation to begin with.

Karim Wafa-Al Hussaini (@karimwafa.bsky.social):

Time is weird. In Australia, it's morning. In England, it's night. In America, it's the 1930s.

Karim Wafa-Al Hussaini (@karimwafa.bsky.social):

The empire envies our connection to the land because the language we share with the earth is not one that can be learned through words. It’s a language of the spirit. And one cannot learn soul.

Karim Wafa-Al Hussaini (@karimwafa.bsky.social):

War is a sign that humanity has failed. Just saying.

Karim Wafa-Al Hussaini (@karimwafa.bsky.social):

Every time I say “no worries” what I really mean is “I am choosing to bear this burden like a medieval monk and you will never hear of it again.”

Karim Wafa-Al Hussaini (@karimwafa.bsky.social):

History will remember those who spoke up when it was easier to stay quiet. And it will never forget those who chose silence.

Karim Wafa-Al Hussaini (@karimwafa.bsky.social):

Karim Wafa-Al Hussaini (@karimwafa.bsky.social):

If Israel deserves a minute of silence then Palestine deserves the world to never speak again.

Karim Wafa-Al Hussaini (@karimwafa.bsky.social):

Karim Wafa-Al Hussaini (@karimwafa.bsky.social):

I don’t know who needs to hear this but immigrants deserve dignity and rights not because they “contribute to the economy,” but because they’re people. Their humanity isn’t conditional on how useful they are to capitalism.

Karim Wafa-Al Hussaini (@karimwafa.bsky.social):

A chief without people is just a man in fancy cloth.

Karim Wafa-Al Hussaini (@karimwafa.bsky.social):

May the land remember. May the wind carry the names they tried to burn. May the stolen forever haunt the empire. May the soil reject what’s built on broken bodies. May the lost mothers speak in thunder. May the revenge be that we are still here, breathing, living, and existing.

Karim Wafa-Al Hussaini (@karimwafa.bsky.social):

This isn’t just conflict. It’s a battle for the soul of the Earth. What’s happening goes way deeper than what we see. It’s spiritual. All of it.

Karim Wafa-Al Hussaini (@karimwafa.bsky.social):

Israel has just bombed cities across Iran. An even darker chapter is beginning.

Karim Wafa-Al Hussaini (@karimwafa.bsky.social):

There is nothing we should fear more than the loss of human empathy.

Karim Wafa-Al Hussaini (@karimwafa.bsky.social):

No biggie but I just wrote my second short story. We’re on a roll. Two days in a row.

Karim Wafa-Al Hussaini (@karimwafa.bsky.social):

When a child’s scream echoes across the earth unanswered, the silence is not peace, it is the sound of humanity taking its last breath.

Karim Wafa-Al Hussaini (@karimwafa.bsky.social):

The calm before the storm.

Karim Wafa-Al Hussaini (@karimwafa.bsky.social):

That means a lot Charlotte. Thanks. Grateful for you and all the other kind and supportive souls here. Stay blessed 💐

Karim Wafa-Al Hussaini (@karimwafa.bsky.social):

Fascism doesn’t need your belief. Just your silence. Just your exhaustion. Just enough confusion to make you scroll past it.

Karim Wafa-Al Hussaini (@karimwafa.bsky.social):

Thanks Jennifer!!

Karim Wafa-Al Hussaini (@karimwafa.bsky.social):

Thanks Alice 💚

Karim Wafa-Al Hussaini (@karimwafa.bsky.social):

Thanks 🥰

Karim Wafa-Al Hussaini (@karimwafa.bsky.social):

I just wrote my first short story 🎊

Karim Wafa-Al Hussaini (@karimwafa.bsky.social):

💛

Karim Wafa-Al Hussaini (@karimwafa.bsky.social):

I opened the other app and saw a post advocating for the enslavement of my people. I’m so glad I have this safe space where I can scroll for hours without being told hurtful things about my people, culture, religion, or complexion.

Karim Wafa-Al Hussaini (@karimwafa.bsky.social):

“The child who is not embraced by the village will burn it down to feel its warmth.”

Karim Wafa-Al Hussaini (@karimwafa.bsky.social):

The amount of collective suffering we’re all witnessing is going to haunt the earth for generations to come until the end of time.

Karim Wafa-Al Hussaini (@karimwafa.bsky.social):

I’m so grateful for this place. The other “space” is so toxic.

Karim Wafa-Al Hussaini (@karimwafa.bsky.social):

the ancestors live in us.

Karim Wafa-Al Hussaini (@karimwafa.bsky.social):

“but what can I do? I’m just one person” — said 8 billion people

Karim Wafa-Al Hussaini (@karimwafa.bsky.social):

Mexicans didn’t cross the border. The border crossed them. California is stolen Mexican land. You can’t be an immigrant in your own homeland.

Karim Wafa-Al Hussaini (@karimwafa.bsky.social):

Everything happening is so exhausting and draining. You feel like you want to take a break from the news but then realise the least you can do is speak up. So you feel guilty for turning away for just a second. We’re stuck in a cycle of wanting to do more and feeling helpless.

Karim Wafa-Al Hussaini (@karimwafa.bsky.social):

Karim Wafa-Al Hussaini (@karimwafa.bsky.social):

Immigrants contribute. Billionaires extract and hoard. But somehow it’s the first group that gets demonized.

Karim Wafa-Al Hussaini (@karimwafa.bsky.social):

We’re living in a dystopia so surreal that even the most visionary novelists couldn’t have imagined.

Karim Wafa-Al Hussaini (@karimwafa.bsky.social):

The Earth has had enough. It’s time.

Karim Wafa-Al Hussaini (@karimwafa.bsky.social):

The system is so broken that it views empathy as disobedience.

Karim Wafa-Al Hussaini (@karimwafa.bsky.social):

Borders aren’t real. Nations aren’t real. None of this is real. It’s literally all made up. Nobody is illegal on earth.

Karim Wafa-Al Hussaini (@karimwafa.bsky.social):

From Palestine to LA it’s time to end white supremacy. Enough is enough. It’s time.

Karim Wafa-Al Hussaini (@karimwafa.bsky.social):

There’s no place on earth I love more than the Pacific Northwest. It has my entire soul 🌲💚

Karim Wafa-Al Hussaini (@karimwafa.bsky.social):

We live in a world where people who protest war crimes get longer sentences than those who commit the war crimes. Read that again.

Karim Wafa-Al Hussaini (@karimwafa.bsky.social):

It’s one boat against the world. It’s 12 people doing more than 8 billion. All eyes on the Freedom Flotilla.

Karim Wafa-Al Hussaini (@karimwafa.bsky.social):

We live in a world where it’s the wrong ICE that’s burning.

Karim Wafa-Al Hussaini (@karimwafa.bsky.social):

If you’re falling apart right now, you’re not alone. We weren’t meant to witness this much suffering and act like it’s normal. You’re not broken. The world is. And you’re one of the people refusing to forget what it means to have a soul.

Karim Wafa-Al Hussaini (@karimwafa.bsky.social):

loaf 🍞

Karim Wafa-Al Hussaini (@karimwafa.bsky.social):

Karim Wafa-Al Hussaini (@karimwafa.bsky.social):

Happy Saturday to all you beautiful people 💐

Karim Wafa-Al Hussaini (@karimwafa.bsky.social):

my favorite things? books. my favorite thing to do? read books. my favorite people? people who like books.

Karim Wafa-Al Hussaini (@karimwafa.bsky.social):

50 copies of the same one book “child of a stolen homeland” 😊

Karim Wafa-Al Hussaini (@karimwafa.bsky.social):

I SOLD 50 BOOKS. COME ON MAKE SOME NOISE 🎉👏🏽

Karim Wafa-Al Hussaini (@karimwafa.bsky.social):

Karim Wafa-Al Hussaini (@karimwafa.bsky.social):

Eid al-Adha Mubarak to you all. May this Eid bless our families with peace, unity, and joy. May it also bring this world closer to justice, freedom, and healing. Our hearts remain with those suffering and with nations striving for liberation.

Karim Wafa-Al Hussaini (@karimwafa.bsky.social):

We are living in the era of humanity’s collapse. There’s no more grey area. You’re either on the side of good or evil. It’s as clear as day.

Karim Wafa-Al Hussaini (@karimwafa.bsky.social):

Karim Wafa-Al Hussaini (@karimwafa.bsky.social):

I can’t believe it but I just went jogging shirtless for the first time ever lol.

Karim Wafa-Al Hussaini (@karimwafa.bsky.social):

Hehe 💛🙏🏽

Karim Wafa-Al Hussaini (@karimwafa.bsky.social):

If you feel exhausted, anxious, or overwhelmed, consider this: maybe it’s not you. Maybe you’re just sane in an insane world that demands we ignore suffering and call it normal.

Karim Wafa-Al Hussaini (@karimwafa.bsky.social):

maybe your garden isn’t growing because every time a flower grows you cut it to prove to someone that you’re a gardener.

Karim Wafa-Al Hussaini (@karimwafa.bsky.social):

I just did. Can’t risk losing this gem 😭

Karim Wafa-Al Hussaini (@karimwafa.bsky.social):

“if you keep reading so much, you’ll eventually get completely detached from reality” umm… that’s exactly what I’m trying to do.

Karim Wafa-Al Hussaini (@karimwafa.bsky.social):

I just had the most beautiful idea for a book, I’m honestly in shock. I can’t believe it.

Karim Wafa-Al Hussaini (@karimwafa.bsky.social):

Maybe the point isn’t to be productive. Maybe the point is to be present.

Karim Wafa-Al Hussaini (@karimwafa.bsky.social):

I know I’ve already said it like a million times but I love this app.

Karim Wafa-Al Hussaini (@karimwafa.bsky.social):

We don’t need more billionaires. We need more healers. We don’t need more tycoons. We need more educators. We don’t need more capitalists. We need more storytellers. We need less people with things and more people with souls.

Karim Wafa-Al Hussaini (@karimwafa.bsky.social):

Privilege is when justice feels like oppression, equality is when the truth no longer needs permission. Read that again.

Karim Wafa-Al Hussaini (@karimwafa.bsky.social):

What book are you reading this weekend?

Karim Wafa-Al Hussaini (@karimwafa.bsky.social):

Being loved well is never about grand gestures. It’s someone bringing you tea without asking. It’s remembering how you like your toast. It’s consistency. That’s romance.

Karim Wafa-Al Hussaini (@karimwafa.bsky.social):

I don’t want a bigger network. I want deeper roots. I want neighbours who knock, friends who linger, and a community that knows my cat’s name.

Karim Wafa-Al Hussaini (@karimwafa.bsky.social):

The world is fluent in suffering, but illiterate in justice.

Karim Wafa-Al Hussaini (@karimwafa.bsky.social):

Sometimes I just get tired of everything and everyone.

Karim Wafa-Al Hussaini (@karimwafa.bsky.social):

above all, I want to be kind.

Karim Wafa-Al Hussaini (@karimwafa.bsky.social):

Imagine if we saw people as chapters instead of forever. Less possession. More gratitude.

Karim Wafa-Al Hussaini (@karimwafa.bsky.social):

💛💛 thank you so much

Karim Wafa-Al Hussaini (@karimwafa.bsky.social):

In my culture we have a word—“maktoub” which means “it’s written”—and we use it as we believe that everything which happens in our life is written by the Creator in the heavenly realm along with the stars and the sky. This means that things never miss us. What’s meant for us will always find us.

Karim Wafa-Al Hussaini (@karimwafa.bsky.social):

happy friday everyone. may you have a blessed day.

Karim Wafa-Al Hussaini (@karimwafa.bsky.social):

They have money for bombs but not to feed the poor. Make it make sense.

Karim Wafa-Al Hussaini (@karimwafa.bsky.social):

A society that funds war, silences activists, arrests students, and criminalizes free speech isn’t a success. It’s a failed state.

Karim Wafa-Al Hussaini (@karimwafa.bsky.social):

I wrote 3 pages today 😊

Karim Wafa-Al Hussaini (@karimwafa.bsky.social):

I’m a writer because I cry on paper and use my tears to make art

Karim Wafa-Al Hussaini (@karimwafa.bsky.social):

🥰

Karim Wafa-Al Hussaini (@karimwafa.bsky.social):

Sometimes you have to stop listening to what other people are trying to tell you so that you can hear what your body is trying to tell you.

Karim Wafa-Al Hussaini (@karimwafa.bsky.social):

In English we say “I love you” but in Arabic‎ we say “أنتي روحي وقلبي و عيوني” which means “you’re my soul, my heart and my eyes”

Karim Wafa-Al Hussaini (@karimwafa.bsky.social):

💛