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my wife once asked our roomate where she was parked in a group chat. but she messed up the word "parked" and instead spelled it as "garked". and then me and my roommate just started referring to parking as garking because its just really fun to give my wife shit. its just part of the professional little brother playbook.

but also, at some point it stopped being ironic and we just started calling parking garking.

Hello dear friends,

Today, I’m reaching out again with another urgent need. My sister and I must pay the tuition fees for the second semester of our third academic year. The total amount is $2,450 and so far, with your help we have been able to raise $242. We are still short $2,208 and we only have 10 days left to complete the payment.

Education means everything to us. It’s our path to a better future, especially in these difficult times. Please, help us continue our studies and not be forced to stop due to financial hardship. Every dollar makes a difference, and your support gives us hope.

We believe in this community, and we believe we can do it together.

Please don’t leave us alone in this. Help us reach our goal and secure our future.

Vetted by @sar-soor

Vetted by @opencommunion

Vetted by @el-shab-hussien

❗This is not just a headline. It’s our reality.

No food. No medicine. No safe place left.

We cry out in every language, hoping someone hears us:

غزة تموت جوعاً

Gaza is starving to death

Gaza meurt de faim

Gaza se muere de hambre

Gaza verhungert

Gaza sta morendo di fame

Газа умирает от голода

加沙正在饿死

ガザは飢えで死にかけている

가자는 굶어 죽어가고 있다

Gazze açlıktan ölüyor

गाज़ा भूख से मर रहा है

Gaza está morrendo de fome

Gaza sekarat karena kelaparan

غزہ بھوک سے مر رہا ہے

غزه از گرسنگی در حال مرگ است

Η Γάζα πεθαίνει από την πείνα

Gaza svälter ihjäl

🆘 Please don’t scroll past this.

Every share, every donation, every voice counts.

Vetted!!!

(#167 on the verified fundraiser list by el-shab-hussein and nabulsi) (but we had to make a new gfm campaign cuz our old organizer stopped contacting us).

Source: UNRWA

Hi, yes. I've made posts on this several times on my old blogs but i'm gonna write a list again. most of these are on libgen (the books)

Podcasts, documentaries, etc.:

5 part series on Iranian history from 1906 to present day by The Dig (podcast)

End of Empire (1985), chapter 7: Iran (documentary)

Coup 53 (2019) dir. Taghi Amirani, includes cut material from the End of Empire episode (doc/movie)

Books:

I recommend all of Ali Rahnema's books on Iran, no others that I've read have been as in depth. He's my favourite and he's rarely mentioned compared to writers like Ervand Abrahamian.

Behind the 1953 Coup in Iran: Thugs, Turncoats, Soldiers, and Spooks detailed analysis of the whole event, includes maps of Tehran and chronology

The Rise of Modern Despotism in Iran: The Shah, the Opposition, and the US, 1953–1968

Call to Arms: Iran's Marxist Revolutionaries: Formation and Evolution of the Fada'is, 1964–1976 only about iranian marxist groups, how they came to be, their different political lines and approaches etc.

The Political History of Modern Iran: Revolution, Reaction and Transformation, 1905 to the Present this is a very good one but only if you want something that goes into a LOT of details which is useful for me, because i study history, but not for someone that wants more of an overview.

Speaking of Ervand Abrahamian:

Radical Islam: The Iranian Mojahedin is good. @ghelgheli read this one and also sent me some parts of it. it's a thorough study of Mojahedin-e Khalq (book)

Articles:

The Defender: Waiting for the revolution in Tehran about Haroun Yashayaie. He is a past head of the Tehran Jewish Committee and a communist who was imprisoned pre-79'