This blog is a big thank you to all of the overwhelming support for the poetry volume, Every Day and Every Land: Poems on the Tragedy of Karbala. Find more details on where to find it and where profits go to below. I wanted to share one of the poems that I contributed
Originally written in July 2015 to coincide with the 20th anniversary of the Srebrenica genocide, this piece by Arzu Merali has been revised by its author for the current context, including updating footnotes, and adding description which now requires addition for those unfamiliar with the essay’s contents. Listen to the essay here
As the US enters the war against Iran, Arzu argues that we need to keep our focus on the driver for this latest violence. It has always been about Revolutionary Iran’s support for Palestine. So, the war is on. It’s been decades in the making. The US has bombed Iran, a week
It’s two days since the Zionist entity launched attacks on the Islamic Republic of Iran. A clear extension of its war on Gaza, yet there has been notable silence from civil society figures and online commentators. These ethical lapses will be remembered. Its thundering – the silence. And it makes me wonder.
Arzu reflects on the month of January thus far, including the current ceasefire in the Israeli genocide against the Palestinians, the LA wildfires, and Holocaust Memorial. It is midway through January, -ish. People are celebrating the ceasefire in Gaza. It is a difficult moment. Of course, any stay in the bloodletting is
The price of ‘victory’ in Syria has come at the expense of a liberated Palestine, Islamic resistance and the rising new world, argues Arzu. As the shills for the Syrian ‘rebels’ rejoice from London to Tel Aviv, it is clear that any victory in Syria has come at the price of the
My thoughts on the assassination of Syed Nasrallah, originally written 30 September. I didn’t publish them until now (22 October) for a variety of reasons explained in the note[i]. “But do not think of those who have been killed in the One and Only God’s cause as dead. No, they are
Some notes on these last few weeks from Arzu I was alerted to this short film by Revd Stephen Sizer of Peacemakers. Based on Zeina Azzam’s poem ‘Write my name’, it crushed me. I demand you watch it. I defy you not to weep. I will put a link and the
What, if anything, can be a revolutionary politics for minoritised people, especially Muslims in the UK? What can we actually do to fight for the end of the genocide? – asks Arzu Merali. Read the article below the audio. Listen to the audio on this page or on Youtube. Part III:
Arzu was invited to speak alongside Batool Subeiti and Syed Muhsin Abbas once more on Perspectives with Faiza Naqvi on Hidayat TV to discuss Eid in Palestine, the UK elections and more. Starting with the passing of Eid and the genocide in Palestine, the participants moved on to discuss the