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2 days ago | 
robertazzitheother.substack.com | Robert Azzi
Eid Mubarak to all my Sisters and Brothers celebrating Eid al-Adha. Good afternoon to my Family, Friends, Colleagues, and all who stand in solidarity against injustice. Sunset on June 5, 2025, begins the celebration of Eid al-Adha, the Feast of the Sacrifice. I am grateful that I have been twice been blessed with the opportunity to don ihram and perform Hajj, the pilgrimage to Mecca.
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4 days ago | 
robertazzitheother.substack.com | Robert Azzi
Prologue:In 1975, British journalist Gerald Seymour wrote, “One man’s terrorist is another man’s freedom fighter,” in Harry’s Game, about the British conflict with the IRA.
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2 weeks ago | 
robertazzitheother.substack.com | Robert Azzi
Family, Friends, Colleagues,I was gifted this week an incredible book: One Day, Everyone Will Have Always Been Against This, by Omar El Akkad. As you will read below I am truly touched, humbled, and enlightened by his work and I place it alongside Rashid Khalidi's The Hundred Years' War on Palestine as essential reading not just about Palestine, not just about the Other, but about ourselves. It has informed and inspired my work this week. I feel blessed and grateful.
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1 month ago | 
robertazzitheother.substack.com | Robert Azzi
Good morning Family, Friends, and ColleaguesSome days it’s a good idea to stand aside, to embrace the words and passions of others as you will read below this is one of those days. Stay well, stand in solidarity, draw your keffiyehs close, and love each other. Salamaat,RobertRobert Azzi / The Other is a reader-supported publication. To receive new posts and support my work, consider becoming a free or paid subscriber.
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1 month ago | 
robertazzitheother.substack.com | Robert Azzi
Dear Family, Friends, and Colleagues,I got up early this morning and tried to watch the Pope’s funeral … I really tried … but the commentators weren’t saying much that I didn’t already know … and not much about what I cared about…My own thoughts follow below the photograph…RobertPope Francis was buried today.
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1 month ago | 
robertazzitheother.substack.com | Robert Azzi
Family, Friends, Colleagues, and Fellow Resisters,I have seen No Other Land, an extraordinarily courageous and provocative Academy Award-winning movie chosen just weeks ago as Best Documentary Feature at the 97th Academy Awards. It had a short run in Epping NH and I took an afternoon off to watch it. In spite of its compelling narrative, international and domestic awards, and critical acclaim - and Oscars - it has yet to acquire a national distributor, so one has to make an effort to see it.
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1 month ago | 
robertazzitheother.substack.com | Robert Azzi
Good Morning Family, Friends, Colleagues, It's Palm Sunday. The most beautiful Christian service I ever witnessed was, years ago, in Cambridge, MA within the walls of The Society of Saint John the Evangelist, a small Episcopal monastery astride the banks of the Charles River. It was there I was welcomed into the service of Tenebrae, a Service of Shadows, which happens once a year during the final part of Christian Holy Week.
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2 months ago | 
robertazzitheother.substack.com | Robert Azzi
Family, Friends, and Colleagues,Eid Mubarak!I wish everyone who is able to celebrate this blessed holiday of Eid al-Fitr a Happy Eid Mubarak! As we together celebrate this blessed time let us not forget or neglect those for whom no such celebration is possible, such as those enduring genocide, ethnic cleansing, and forced starvation in the Occupied Palestinian Territories and in all other places of oppression and dispossession - including here in the United States.
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2 months ago | 
robertazzitheother.substack.com | Robert Azzi
Good Morning Family, Friends, Colleagues,I just want to share a few thoughts as Eid Al-Fitr, the feast day celebrated by Muslims marking the end of the month-long dawn-to-sunset fasting of Ramadan. Salamaat,Robert“Islam is a death cult.”Some years ago I saw those words, painted on a rough wooden sign, posted on Mountain Road in Jaffrey, NH.
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2 months ago | 
robertazzitheother.substack.com | Robert Azzi
Dear Family, Friends, Colleagues, and all Loved Ones,The racist, bigoted, unconstitutional, unjustifiable, - and still unfathomable - attack on Mahmoud Khalil and his family is cruel almost beyond words. My response is below - I find no other words. Salamaat,RobertThere are times when current events appear to me so evil-minded and dangerous that staying silent would make me feel complicit with their intent. Writing about such issues then becomes an imperative. This is one of those times.
