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30 Jul, 7 tweets, 3 min read
If you're not paying attention to the Egypt-Sudan-Ethiopia dispute over the Grand Ethiopian Renaissance Dam, you're ignoring one of the biggest political story in Africa #GERD
An intro piece on the politics surrounding the dam
eurasiareview.com/29072021-the-p…
Analysis on how #GERD may affect Egypt's security

news.usc.edu/188414/nile-ri…
On why Ethiopia has big hopes for #GERD washingtonpost.com/world/interact…
On Sudan's changing views re: #GERD as border disputes intensify with Ethiopia, and the transitional govt's closer relations with Egypt and their Gulf allies
bbc.com/news/world-afr…
Egypt & Sudan - downstream countries - have both have built dams along the Nile, but GERD is Ethiopia's (the source of the Blue Nile) first thanks to colonial-era agreements heavily favoring Egypt brookings.edu/blog/africa-in…
Colonial-era power imbalances, hydroelectric development, the Tigray conflict, water access during global climate change & population growth, the "Arab Spring," China in Africa, the African Union vs Arab League - major international relations stories everywhere you look #GERD

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22 Sep 20
It's not legally binding, and some will think it's not inclusive enough while others will think it's gone too far, but it's v important to have the Fiqh Council of North America's fatwa/legal opinion on women in the mosque in writing.

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"We, the undersigned Muslim scholars, leaders, organizations and concerned Muslims, voice our strong commitment to uphold and realize the Prophetic ideal of masjids being open and inclusive of women. Striving to realize the Prophetic model, we call upon all masjids to ensure...
1) women are welcomed as an integral part of masjids and encouraged to attend, 2) women have a prayer space in the main musalla which is behind the lines of men but not behind a full barrier that disconnects women from the main musalla and prevents them from seeing the imam; and
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20 Jul 19
Apparently, some folks think minorities being told to "go back home" isn't racist. That our being here is a result of their magnanimity and not a result of our rights. Lemme see if I can help you out.
Being second generation (American-born/raised children of immigrant parents) might be compared to living with one parent. You have two parents - their DNA, culture, history, baggage, idiosyncrasies are passed on to you in differing degrees - but you live mostly with one.
You might divide your time equally with both parents. Or you might live and die without seeing one of the parents. Or you might live mostly with one parent, but visit the other parent in the summer/holidays. They're still both your parents.
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10 May 19
Some corners of the internet are attacking @RepEBJ for inviting her constituent, the beloved TX Imam @omarsuleiman504 to give a prayer to Congress yesterday. You might not know who he is, so I'll tell you.
He's known in the Muslim community for being a founder of @MUHSENORG which helps and trains mosques to serve Muslims with special needs and of @yaqeeninstitute which publishes papers on issues facing US Muslims.
Muslims also know him as an ally to Muslim women, bc Sh. omar was one of the first US Muslim religious leaders to take a private and public stand against another TX preacher accused of sexually predatory behavior two years ago.
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8 Apr 19
I've been seeing this pic on my #Sudan_Uprising TLs today and it's amazing. Let me tell you why.
She's wearing a white tobe (outer garment) and gold moon earrings. The white tobe is worn by working women in offices and can be linked w/cotton (a major export of Sudan), so it represents women working as professionals in cities or in the agricultural sector in rural areas.
Her earrings are the gold moons of traditional bridal jewelry (Sudanese, like many Arabic speakers, often use moon-based metaphors to describe feminine beauty)
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27 Mar 19
Why We Must Recapture Scholarly Discourse from Extreme Bloggers | ImanWire almadinainstitute.org/blog/why-we-mu…
There is a very interesting story in the footnotes that highlights why I started @SideEntrance years ago & the importance of experiential learning that men often need to undertake before they become loyal allies of women as the Quran tells them to be.
Mufti Abdur Rahman Aazmi relates that he once wrote a detailed fatwa (legal opinion) that in general women should not be encouraged to come regularly to the mosque for prayers. Then, he visited Muradabad with his wife and guess what happened?
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4 Mar 19
Are they kidding? Instead of building unity within the party in the run up to the 2020 election, Dem leadership would rather divide and censure. #IStandWithIlhan
Where were their resolutions over the years for the avowed white supremacist Steve King? Or all the birthers in both houses who spent 8 years attacking Obama's Americanness based on his Blackness and percieved foreign Muslim-ness?
Omar is being put through the ringer by her own party because she's Black, visibly Muslim, & speaks with an accent. Dems love using Muslim immigrant refugees as props in their diversity talking points not as legislators with a voice in the House.
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