Writing | Lulu Badr

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The Arab Intellectual, Past and Present

When we speak of intellectuals we are, deep down, searching for answers. The term often carries expectation, authority and perhaps a bit of uneasiness, like that which comes when your family doctor emerges from an examination room without his usual weariness. But what if intellectuals don’t have answers? What if they don’t have authority? What if the intellectuals we have been used to are no more?

Camera Illuminante - Arab Photography Post Arab Spring

REAC Barcelona

Photography was a particularly interesting medium since it acts as a “double actant”; the photographer is a witness and, by documenting the unfolding events, he also becomes an agent of these events. In the post-revolutionary period, however, recently activist photography was forced to take the role of a “civil” form of art in order to avoid censorship.

03 The Intimate relationship between Dhikr & Somatic Therapy

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The new vocabulary that somatic therapy taught me helped uncover deep meanings hidden within our age-old practices of worship.

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How You Can Use Islamic Practices for Regulation

Amaliah.com

This article aims to highlight many of the already existing benefits in some of the practices we already do. I continue an exploration into the relationship between dhikr and somatic practices). It represents a process of translation between parts of myself seemingly different yet never contradictory.