https://www.rajasalim.comRSS Feed for Raja SalimenMon, 24 Aug 2026 00:00:00 +0100https://alhayyamagazine.com/about/Al Hayya is a bilingual, biannual platform and publisher founded in Beirut in 2020. It produces literary, visual, and sonic content that confronts the politics of representation, challenges normative frameworks of feminism, and insists on the visibility of anti-racist, transnational, and queer thought.Mon, 24 Aug 2026 00:00:00 +0100https://alhayyamagazine.com/about/https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/16032127-revenge?from_search=true&from_srp=true&qid=sbNpoK4zmn&rank=1Sinister forces draw together a cast of desperate characters in this eerie and absorbing novel from Yoko Ogawa.Thu, 20 Aug 2026 00:00:00 +0100https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/16032127-revenge?from_search=true&from_srp=true&qid=sbNpoK4zmn&rank=1https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/75494215-eve?from_search=true&from_srp=true&qid=9wH403HMa5&rank=1THE REAL ORIGIN OF OUR SPECIES: a myth-busting, eye-opening landmark account of how humans evolved, offering a paradigm shift in our thinking about what the female body is, how it came to be, and how this evolution still shapes all our lives today.Thu, 20 Aug 2026 00:00:00 +0100https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/75494215-eve?from_search=true&from_srp=true&qid=9wH403HMa5&rank=1https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/57145833-my-body?ref=nav_sb_ss_2_8My Body is a profoundly personal exploration of feminism, sexuality, and power, of men's treatment of women and women's rationalizations for accepting that treatment.Thu, 20 Aug 2026 00:00:00 +0100https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/57145833-my-body?ref=nav_sb_ss_2_8https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/52373.Regarding_the_Pain_of_OthersHow does the spectacle of the sufferings of others (via television or newspapers) affect us? Are viewers inured--or incited--to violence by the depiction of cruelty?Thu, 20 Aug 2026 00:00:00 +0100https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/52373.Regarding_the_Pain_of_Othershttps://on-seeing-black-elegies.org/In Black Elegies, Kimberly Juanita Brown examines the form of the elegy and its unique capacity to convey the elongated grief of sustained racial violence. Structured around the sensorial, the book moves through sight, sound, and touch, offering a framework of mourning while black, within the parameters of contemporary artistic production.Sun, 09 Aug 2026 00:00:00 +0100https://on-seeing-black-elegies.org/https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/60495210بناؤه من فقرات سردية قصيرة تحمل مفارقات الشعر والتماعاته الخاطفة. هي سردية روحٌ شاعرةٌ يتفتَّح وعيها بذاتها وسط العواصف التي أخذت تضرب الطبقة المتوسطة المصرية طوال الثُلث الأخير من القرن العشرين. وتطرح كاتبته من جديد سؤال الشكل السيَّري في الكتابة الروائية، وعلاقة جمالية التذكُّر بالتخييل، والأدب بالاعتراف.Sat, 08 Aug 2026 00:00:00 +0100https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/60495210https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/39933267في مطلع الخمسينيات، فتاتان في نهايات المراهقة يراهما المارّة في شارع قصر النيل وسط القاهرة أمام فيترينات "النوفوتيه"؛ إحداهما شقراء صارخة الجمال والأخرى مليحة سمراء، كأنّهما مارلين مونرو وجين راسل في "الرجال يفضلون الشقراوات"... بعد سنوات قليلة ستصير الشقراء من نجمات السينما بالفعل، ستشتهر باسم نادية لطفي، وتصنع لنفسها تاريخًا مميزًا على المستوى العربي. لكن تُرى أين ذهبت صديقتها السمراء؟Sat, 08 Aug 2026 00:00:00 +0100https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/39933267http://www.wnycstudios.org/story/right-be-forgotten-2308/In online news, stories live forever. The tipsy photograph of you at the college football game? It’s there. That news article about the political rally you were marching at? It’s there. A charge for driving under the influence? That’s there, too. But what if... it wasn’t? Several years ago a group of journalists in Cleveland, Ohio, tried an experiment that had the potential to turn things upside down: they started unpublishing content they’d already published. Photographs, names, entire articles...Sat, 08 Aug 2026 00:00:00 +0100http://www.wnycstudios.org/story/right-be-forgotten-2308/http://www.wnycstudios.org/story/110206-finding-emilie/Sat, 08 Aug 2026 00:00:00 +0100http://www.wnycstudios.org/story/110206-finding-emilie/http://www.wnycstudios.org/story/octomom/In 2007, Bruce Robison’s robot submarine stumbled across an octopus settling in to brood her eggs. It seemed like a small moment. But as he went back to visit her, month after month, what began as a simple act of motherhood became a heroic feat that has never been equaled by any known species on Earth.  This episode was reported and produced by Annie McEwen.  Special thanks to Kim Fulton-Bennett and Rob Sherlock at the Monterey Bay Aquarium Research Institute. And thanks to the Indianapolis Cham...Sat, 08 Aug 2026 00:00:00 +0100http://www.wnycstudios.org/story/octomom/http://www.wnycstudios.org/story/human-vs-horse/But you know what race they don't have? The wildest running race I have ever heard of in which a human competes against a horse. Yep, it's a real race. It happens every year in ...Sat, 08 Aug 2026 00:00:00 +0100http://www.wnycstudios.org/story/human-vs-horse/http://www.wnycstudios.org/story/right-be-forgotten-2308/In online news, stories live forever. The tipsy photograph of you at the college football game? It’s there. That news article about the political rally you were marching at? It’s there. A charge for driving under the influence? That’s there, too. But what if... it wasn’t? Several years ago a group of journalists in Cleveland, Ohio, tried an experiment that had the potential to turn things upside down: they started unpublishing content they’d already published. Photographs, names, entire articles...Sat, 08 Aug 2026 00:00:00 +0100http://www.wnycstudios.org/story/right-be-forgotten-2308/http://www.wnycstudios.org/story/91569-memory-and-forgetting/This hour of Radiolab, a look behind the curtain of how memories are made...and forgotten.Remembering is an unstable and profoundly unreliable process--it’s easy come, easy go as we learn how true memories can be obliterated, and false ones added. And Oliver Sacks joins us to tell the story of an amnesiac whose love for his wife and music transcend his 7-second memory. This hour of Radiolab, a look behind the curtain of how memories are made...and forgotten. Remembering is an unstable and prof...Sat, 08 Aug 2026 00:00:00 +0100http://www.wnycstudios.org/story/91569-memory-and-forgetting/https://open.spotify.com/show/3lytinVCrNAWufG5Hz888T“A 4-Track Mind” - A neurologist issues a dare to a ragtime piano player and a famous conductor. When the two men face off in an fMRI machine, the challenge is so difficult that one man instantly gives up. But the other achieves a musical feat that ought to be impossible.Sat, 08 Aug 2026 00:00:00 +0100https://open.spotify.com/show/3lytinVCrNAWufG5Hz888Thttps://media.journoportfolio.com/users/514670/images/759523b0-5602-48bf-bff5-f07eaca7bd10.webpSun, 26 Jul 2026 00:00:00 +0100https://media.journoportfolio.com/users/514670/images/759523b0-5602-48bf-bff5-f07eaca7bd10.webphttps://media.journoportfolio.com/users/514670/images/59fcb084-1bec-4aef-890e-3f5708aa61d5.jpgSun, 26 Jul 2026 00:00:00 +0100https://media.journoportfolio.com/users/514670/images/59fcb084-1bec-4aef-890e-3f5708aa61d5.jpghttps://media.journoportfolio.com/users/514670/images/08fb468f-5dca-4542-b4a4-c6e718939425.jpgSun, 26 Jul 2026 00:00:00 +0100https://media.journoportfolio.com/users/514670/images/08fb468f-5dca-4542-b4a4-c6e718939425.jpghttps://media.journoportfolio.com/users/514670/images/14b44bcd-2ba3-45b6-9e83-aea9256202bf.jpgSun, 26 Jul 2026 00:00:00 +0100https://media.journoportfolio.com/users/514670/images/14b44bcd-2ba3-45b6-9e83-aea9256202bf.jpghttps://media.journoportfolio.com/users/514670/images/8dcbdb07-9874-4da2-8a04-10cd8645abc3.jpegSun, 26 Jul 2026 00:00:00 +0100https://media.journoportfolio.com/users/514670/images/8dcbdb07-9874-4da2-8a04-10cd8645abc3.jpeghttps://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UCj9oYEFBOc&list=PLLHAUHF-RPhlA7mxLd1ssJrL_Ner655UU&index=21From the Radiolab podcast: Why do snails shoot tiny darts at each other? In this episode, we consider a creature we often don’t think much about—the snail. And not just snails, but their sex lives. Which, as it turns out, is epic. There is persuasion and subterfuge, spaghetti penises and co-copulation. And this very surprising habit—erm kink—of making tiny arrows (actually!) and stabbing each other with them. Known as a “love dart,” these limestone daggers aren’t just a strange trick of nature—they have a deep evolutionary purpose. Special thanks to Menno Schilthuizen and Aaron Chase. EPISODE CREDITS: Hosted by Molly Webster Reported by Molly Webster Produced by Mona Madgavkar, Annie McEwen, Molly Webster Sound design contributed by Mona Madgavkar, Annie McEwen Fact-checking by Diane A. Kelly and edited by Alex Neason EPISODE CITATIONS: Videos - A love dart being DARTED! (https://zpr.io/rYhLwXhaxQQP) – Molly has watched this video so many times Articles - Changes in the reproductive system of the snail Helix aspersa caused by mucus from the love dart. (https://zpr.io/xxjuCcTyiVJV) by Koene JM, Chase R. J Exp Biol. The snail's love-dart delivers mucus to increase paternity. By Chase R, Blanchard KC. Proc Biol Sci. A love-dart at the heart of sexual conflict in snails (https://zpr.io/X2ANHPaEg5sr) by Foote C ** This article has an image of eight different love darts, and it’s what Molly shows to Soren in the episode (this image is one of her favorite research finds!) Books - “Nature’s Nether Regions: What the Sex Lives of Bugs, Birds, and Beasts Tell Us About Evolution, Biodiversity, and Ourselves” (https://zpr.io/ktMvJbZciCdD) by evolutionary biologist Menno Schilthuizen. 🎧 Subscribe to Radiolab wherever you listen to podcasts: https://lnk.to/radiolab!youtube 🔎 Subscribe to Radiolab on YouTube: https://bit.ly/3I9KI53 🖋 Subscribe to Radiolab’s Newsletter: https://radiolab.org/newsletter 🌱 Check out Radiolab's Starter Kit Playlist: https://bit.ly/3sX8f4P 👍 Like this video ✏️ and leave us a comment! Follow Radiolab: Instagram — https://www.instagram.com/radiolab X — https://x.com/Radiolab Facebook — https://www.facebook.com/Radiolab Threads — https://www.threads.net/@radiolab TikTok — https://www.tiktok.com/@radiolab Our newsletter includes short essays, recommendations, and details about other ways to interact with the show. Sign up here: https://radiolab.org/newsletter Support Radiolab by becoming a member of The Lab today: https://radiolab.org/the-lab Photo illustration by Jared Bartman Video by W. Harry FortunaSat, 14 Mar 2026 00:00:00 +0000https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UCj9oYEFBOc&list=PLLHAUHF-RPhlA7mxLd1ssJrL_Ner655UU&index=21https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UCj9oYEFBOc&list=PLLHAUHF-RPhlA7mxLd1ssJrL_Ner655UU&index=21From the Radiolab podcast: Why do snails shoot tiny darts at each other? In this episode, we consider a creature we often don’t think much about—the snail. And not just snails, but their sex lives. Which, as it turns out, is epic. There is persuasion and subterfuge, spaghetti penises and co-copulation. And this very surprising habit—erm kink—of making tiny arrows (actually!) and stabbing each other with them. Known as a “love dart,” these limestone daggers aren’t just a strange trick of nature—they have a deep evolutionary purpose. Special thanks to Menno Schilthuizen and Aaron Chase. EPISODE CREDITS: Hosted by Molly Webster Reported by Molly Webster Produced by Mona Madgavkar, Annie McEwen, Molly Webster Sound design contributed by Mona Madgavkar, Annie McEwen Fact-checking by Diane A. Kelly and edited by Alex Neason EPISODE CITATIONS: Videos - A love dart being DARTED! (https://zpr.io/rYhLwXhaxQQP) – Molly has watched this video so many times Articles - Changes in the reproductive system of the snail Helix aspersa caused by mucus from the love dart. (https://zpr.io/xxjuCcTyiVJV) by Koene JM, Chase R. J Exp Biol. The snail's love-dart delivers mucus to increase paternity. By Chase R, Blanchard KC. Proc Biol Sci. A love-dart at the heart of sexual conflict in snails (https://zpr.io/X2ANHPaEg5sr) by Foote C ** This article has an image of eight different love darts, and it’s what Molly shows to Soren in the episode (this image is one of her favorite research finds!) Books - “Nature’s Nether Regions: What the Sex Lives of Bugs, Birds, and Beasts Tell Us About Evolution, Biodiversity, and Ourselves” (https://zpr.io/ktMvJbZciCdD) by evolutionary biologist Menno Schilthuizen. 🎧 Subscribe to Radiolab wherever you listen to podcasts: https://lnk.to/radiolab!youtube 🔎 Subscribe to Radiolab on YouTube: https://bit.ly/3I9KI53 🖋 Subscribe to Radiolab’s Newsletter: https://radiolab.org/newsletter 🌱 Check out Radiolab's Starter Kit Playlist: https://bit.ly/3sX8f4P 👍 Like this video ✏️ and leave us a comment! Follow Radiolab: Instagram — https://www.instagram.com/radiolab X — https://x.com/Radiolab Facebook — https://www.facebook.com/Radiolab Threads — https://www.threads.net/@radiolab TikTok — https://www.tiktok.com/@radiolab Our newsletter includes short essays, recommendations, and details about other ways to interact with the show. Sign up here: https://radiolab.org/newsletter Support Radiolab by becoming a member of The Lab today: https://radiolab.org/the-lab Photo illustration by Jared Bartman Video by W. Harry FortunaSat, 14 Mar 2026 00:00:00 +0000https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UCj9oYEFBOc&list=PLLHAUHF-RPhlA7mxLd1ssJrL_Ner655UU&index=21https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hMTkZdUWaow&list=PLLHAUHF-RPhlA7mxLd1ssJrL_Ner655UU&index=43From the Radiolab podcast: Are we ... glowing? In the 1920s, a Russian biologist studying onion roots made a surprising discovery: underground, down in the darkness, it seemed like the cells inside the onion roots were making their own light. The “onion root experiment” went on to become something of a cult classic in science, and eventually the biologically-made light was dubbed “biophotons.” In the ensuing century, biophoton discoveries moved from onion roots to bacteria, frog embryos and humans. Today, scientist Nirosha Murugan is on a career-defining journey to learn more about the light. As she and her colleagues study this mysterious phenomenon, they find themselves racing from question to question, wondering what gives off light, where it might be coming from, and what, if anything, it could tell us about life, disease, and even death. EPISODE CREDITS: Hosted by Molly Webster Reported by Molly Webster Produced by Sarah Qari with help from Molly Webster Fact-checking by Natalie Middleton EPISODE CITATIONS: Videos - The “Life Flash” video! Note that fluorescent dye was added to the experiment, by the researchers, to enhance the zinc sparks (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=b9tmOyrIlYM) Articles - The Onion Root Experiment (https://www.brmi.online/gurwitsch) Enjoy this Wikipedia rabbit-hole about Fritz Albert Popp (https://zpr.io/nxJFcAMvZkBz) Original Paper on zinc sparks (https://zpr.io/GfbazBqU3e3y) at the time of fertilization, a moment referred to as the “life flash” Read more about the “death flash,” (https://zpr.io/TqG3mcCGYEgQ) and other end-of-life phenomenon, as reported by medical caregivers Research from Nirosha’s lab on photon emissions (https://zpr.io/mtpbwSeY4iEp) and brain activity Research from Nirosha’s lab on biophoton emission (https://zpr.io/3in9LSmzW6m5) and cancer diagnosis 🎧 Subscribe to Radiolab wherever you listen to podcasts: https://lnk.to/radiolab!youtube 🔎 Subscribe to Radiolab on YouTube: https://bit.ly/3I9KI53 🖋 Subscribe to Radiolab’s Newsletter: https://radiolab.org/newsletter 🌱 Check out Radiolab's Starter Kit Playlist: https://bit.ly/3sX8f4P 👍 Like this video ✏️ and leave us a comment! Follow Radiolab: Instagram — https://www.instagram.com/radiolab X — https://x.com/Radiolab Facebook — https://www.facebook.com/Radiolab Threads — https://www.threads.net/@radiolab TikTok — https://www.tiktok.com/@radiolab Our newsletter includes short essays, recommendations, and details about other ways to interact with the show. Sign up here: https://radiolab.org/newsletter Support Radiolab by becoming a member of The Lab today: https://radiolab.org/the-lab Photo illustration by Mikey Burton Video by W. Harry FortunaSat, 27 Sep 2025 00:00:00 +0100https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hMTkZdUWaow&list=PLLHAUHF-RPhlA7mxLd1ssJrL_Ner655UU&index=43https://hennaplatform.com/en/the-world-is-not-a-small-village/This is me. If you look closely at the photograph, you will find me standing beside the lighthouse, facing the Atlantic OceanTue, 06 Aug 2024 00:00:00 +0100https://hennaplatform.com/en/the-world-is-not-a-small-village/https://hennaplatform.com/en/the-world-is-not-a-small-village/This is me. If you look closely at the photograph, you will find me standing beside the lighthouse, facing the Atlantic Ocean. The photo was taken from a relatively far distance on my third day in the Canadian province of Nova Scotia, on May 21, 2016.Tue, 06 Aug 2024 00:00:00 +0100https://hennaplatform.com/en/the-world-is-not-a-small-village/https://hennaplatform.com/%d8%a7%d9%84%d8%b9%d8%a7%d9%84%d9%85-%d9%84%d9%8a%d8%b3-%d9%82%d8%b1%d9%8a%d8%a9-%d8%b5%d8%ba%d9%8a%d8%b1%d8%a9/لأنجو في المكان الجديد كان علي أن أسخّر عامل المسافة الفيزيائية (8200 كيلومتر) لقبول حقيقة أنني بعيدة جداًTue, 06 Aug 2024 00:00:00 +0100https://hennaplatform.com/%d8%a7%d9%84%d8%b9%d8%a7%d9%84%d9%85-%d9%84%d9%8a%d8%b3-%d9%82%d8%b1%d9%8a%d8%a9-%d8%b5%d8%ba%d9%8a%d8%b1%d8%a9/https://hennaplatform.com/en/the-world-is-not-a-small-village/Translated from Arabic by Hazem Jamjoum __________________ A Syrian-born journalist and editor based in Canada. She reports on Syria, displacement, and gender, and writes essays that approach public questions through private memory and place. Her work insists that evidence and intimacy are not opposites: that a public record and a single life can sit in the same piece, each doing what the other cannot. She studied Communication and Women’s Studies at Concordia University in Montreal. “O...Tue, 06 Aug 2024 00:00:00 +0100https://hennaplatform.com/en/the-world-is-not-a-small-village/https://hennaplatform.com/en/the-world-is-not-a-small-village/Translated from Arabic by Hazem Jamjoum __________________ A Syrian-born journalist and editor based in Canada. She reports on Syria, displacement, and gender, and writes essays that approach public questions through private memory and place. Her work insists that evidence and intimacy are not opposites: that a public record and a single life can sit in the same piece, each doing what the other cannot. She studied Communication and Women’s Studies at Concordia University in Montreal. “O...Tue, 06 Aug 2024 00:00:00 +0100https://hennaplatform.com/en/the-world-is-not-a-small-village/https://rustedradishes.com/%D9%81%D8%A7%D8%B7%D9%85%D8%A9-%D9%82%D9%86%D8%AF%D9%8A%D9%84-%D8%A3%D9%88-%D8%A7%D9%84%D8%A3%D9%82%D9%81%D8%A7%D8%B5-%D8%A7%D9%84%D9%81%D8%A7%D8%B1%D8%BA%D8%A9-%D8%A5%D9%84%D8%A7-%D9%85%D9%86-%D8%A7/في البدء كانت الوعود المؤجَّلة. تعثر فاطمة في بيتها القديم على علبة شوكولاتة فاخرة، ولكن لا شوكولاته في علبة الصفيح، بل كيس مهترئ وقصائد قديمة ورائحة تفتح على الراوية بابًا لسرد ذكريات الطفولة. التنافر المعرفي بين ما تعد به علبة الشوكولاتة من أناقة السكريات المستوردة، وما هي عليه في الواقع، أي صفيح صدئ، ألوانه باهتة، فيه أوراق وكلمات عن قسوة الحياة كما عرفتها فاطمة، سيؤطّر سردية «أقفاص فارغة» (الكتب خان، 2021) للشاعرة فاطمة قنديل.Sun, 24 Sep 2023 00:00:00 +0100https://rustedradishes.com/%D9%81%D8%A7%D8%B7%D9%85%D8%A9-%D9%82%D9%86%D8%AF%D9%8A%D9%84-%D8%A3%D9%88-%D8%A7%D9%84%D8%A3%D9%82%D9%81%D8%A7%D8%B5-%D8%A7%D9%84%D9%81%D8%A7%D8%B1%D8%BA%D8%A9-%D8%A5%D9%84%D8%A7-%D9%85%D9%86-%D8%A7/https://aljumhuriya.net/ar/2023/06/14/%D8%B9%D8%B1%D8%B6-%D8%A3%D8%B2%D9%8A%D8%A7%D8%A1-%D9%88%D9%85%D8%AC%D8%B2%D8%B1%D8%A9-%D9%88%D9%83%D8%A7%D9%85%D9%8A%D8%B1%D8%A7-%D9%88%D8%A7%D8%AD%D8%AF%D8%A9/كنت أنا طفلة ثانية جائعة وقريبة من النسر بالدرجة نفسها، كنت طفلة جائعة صوَّرَت طفلة أخرى جائعةWed, 14 Jun 2023 00:00:00 +0100https://aljumhuriya.net/ar/2023/06/14/%D8%B9%D8%B1%D8%B6-%D8%A3%D8%B2%D9%8A%D8%A7%D8%A1-%D9%88%D9%85%D8%AC%D8%B2%D8%B1%D8%A9-%D9%88%D9%83%D8%A7%D9%85%D9%8A%D8%B1%D8%A7-%D9%88%D8%A7%D8%AD%D8%AF%D8%A9/