This artworks is one of three I made for Eid al-Adha cards of a Khaliji concept store.
(Khaleejirefers to the countries of the Arabian Peninsula, especially those associated with the Gulf Cooperation Council (GCC) states. Eid al-Adha is the last of the two Islamic holidays celebrated worldwide each year.)
The traditional Eid cards in GCC countries have banknotes attached to them and they’re used as gifts for children on the fest days. In these designs, the banknotes are placed over the floating hearts.
This cartoon was painted digitally in Procreate. ___
“Muhammad at-Tayieb” al-Hyari Freelance Digital Artist & Illustrator, Khobar, Saudi Arabia www.alhyari.art
This artworks is one of three I made for Eid al-Adha cards of a Khaliji concept store.
(Khaleejirefers to the countries of the Arabian Peninsula, especially those associated with the Gulf Cooperation Council (GCC) states. Eid al-Adha is the last of the two Islamic holidays celebrated worldwide each year.)
The traditional Eid cards in GCC countries have banknotes attached to them and they’re used as gifts for children on the fest days. In these designs, the banknotes are placed over the floating hearts.
This cartoon was painted digitally in Procreate. ___
“Muhammad at-Tayieb” al-Hyari Freelance Digital Artist & Illustrator, Khobar, Saudi Arabia www.alhyari.art
This artworks is one of three I made for Eid al-Adha cards of a Khaliji concept store.
(Khaleejirefers to the countries of the Arabian Peninsula, especially those associated with the Gulf Cooperation Council (GCC) states. Eid al-Adha is the last of the two Islamic holidays celebrated worldwide each year.)
The traditional Eid cards in GCC countries have banknotes attached to them and they’re used as gifts for children on the fest days. In these designs, the banknotes are placed over the floating hearts.
This cartoon was painted digitally in Procreate. ___
“Muhammad at-Tayieb” al-Hyari Freelance Digital Artist & Illustrator, Khobar, Saudi Arabia www.alhyari.art
My name is Yousef and I’m a transgender male from the Middle East. I decided to make a post on here since there are a lot of active people from the LGBT community that are willing to help those in need.
In the Middle East we suffer a lot from society and even “coming out” could get you in jail. There is a law in my country (Kuwait) where you can get thrown in jail for simply breaking gender norms (Dressing up like the other gender).
We are a group of trans activits that are trying to spread the word on twitter since it is very popular in the Middle East and it proved to change things in other issues. We’ve managed to get the attention of the “Daily Dot” when we translated very violent tweets on an arab trans hashtag to show how much we are in danger in this part of the world
If you tweet enough and help us trend it and gain enough attention, it would make Arabs become aware of our existence and therefore demand respect and our right to exist. Many of us want the right to simply transition and we can’t because most Arabs think they have the right to tell us what we can and cant do to our bodies.
If you don’t have a twitter or have no desire to partcipate, reblogging this would be more than enough. We need as much help as we can get.
Thank you
The LGBT community in much of the Muslim world does not just suffer from discrimination, but they fear for their lives. While people here in the West would like to assume that those on the right side of the political spectrum are anti-LGBT, and sure in some cases that is very much true, it is in no way comparable to what the LGBT community suffers from in the Muslim world. In fact, most conservatives in Canada are actually very strongly in support of LGBT rights. Even in the United States there is a huge trend and shift in attitudes amongst Republicans. The hateful rhetoric that still remains and discriminates against the LGBT community in North America is shameful and sad dying cry of pathetic ignorance, and it is very minuscule in comparison to what they suffer from in the Muslims world. It is now time, more than ever, for all the LGBT rights activists to start focusing some of their attention to where the community suffers the most!
Click here for a really fascinating photo set of families around the world with a week’s worth of their groceries. It is very cool to see the differences, and the similarities. We all need family and we all need food- two of the most basic things that all humans share. The variations between how we achieve those desires are what keeps the word interesting.
The photos above are the USA, Chad, Guatemala, Japan, and Kuwait. There are more in the link.
Raqqa, January 8th, 2016. A woman, Lena Al-Qasem, was publicly executed by her own 20 year-old jihadi son, Ali Saqr al-Qasem, the charge was : “inciting her son to leave the Islamic State and escaping together to the outside of Raqqa.” In accordance to a hadith, the Prophet Muhammad (PBUH) said: ”Your Heaven lies under the feet of your mother.”
Isisorthe Islamic State In Iraq and Syria, as the barbaric group refers to itself with all complacency, is claimed to be a Salafi jihadist militant group that follows a so-called ‘Islamic’ fundamentalist, Wahhabi doctrine of Sunni Islam, which seems to be nothing but a poor justification for their politically-motivated barbarism. ‘Islamic fundamentalism, Salafism, Wahhabism…’ none of these actually existed back in the prophet’s era, nor have been mentioned in the Islamic scripture.
Where did Isis come from?
“In Syria we backed … some of the wrong people and not in the right part of the Free Syrian Army. Some of those weapons from Benghazi ended up in the hands of ISIS. So we helped build ISIS.” says the Fox News analyst and U.S. military ex-general McInerney. (See video here.)
Writing for The Guardian in August 2014, Ali Khedery states: “Principally, Isis is the product of a genocide that continued unabated as the world stood back and watched. It is the illegitimate child born of pure hate and pure fear – the result of 200,000 murdered Syrians and of millions more displaced and divorced from their hopes and dreams. Isis’s rise is also a reminder of how Bashar al-Assad’s Machiavellian embrace of al-Qaida would come back to haunt him. Facing Assad’s army and intelligence services, Lebanon’s Hezbollah, Iraq’s Shia Islamist militias and their grand patron, Iran’s Revolutionary Guards, Syria’s initially peaceful protesters quickly became disenchanted, disillusioned and disenfranchised – and then radicalised and violently militant.”
Who is funding Isis?
“The most important source of Isis financing to date has been support coming out of the Gulf states, primarily Saudi Arabia but also Qatar, Kuwait and the United Arab Emirates” says Günter Meyer, the director of the Center for Research into the Arabic World at the University of Mainz.
Isis is now funding itself, through oil sales mostly. But when it all started out, Isis was ‘seed funded’ by wealthy donors, charities and even the governments of the Persian kingdoms, Saudi Arabia and Qatar who gave money to the opponents of Syrian President Bashar al-Assad, Isis included.
According to an estimate by IHS (an energy research consultancy) Isis-controlled territory produces up to 60,000 barrels per day, which is an estimated £1m every 24 hours.
Who is arming Isis?
According to a Conflict Armament Research Group study, the ammunation the group uses was manufactured mostly in America, China and Russia.
Back in 2014, Isis took possession of large amounts of kit including tanks, rocket launchers and howitzers. It is known to have smuggled in arms from places such Saudi Arabia, Iraq, Syria, Eastern Europe.
According to Reuters, the U.S. made weaponry that fell into enemy hands includes 2,300 Humvee armored vehicles, at least 40 M1A1 main battle tanks, 74,000 machine guns, and as many as 52 M198 howitzer mobile gun systems, plus numerous small arms and ammunition.
FromPhotos: Sandstorms Sweep Across Parts of the Middle East, one of 16 photos. Bedouin shepherds walk alongside their grazing flock in the al-Henniyah area outside of Najaf, Iraq, on May 23, 2022, during a sandstorm sweeping the country. (Qassem Al-Kaabi / AFP / Getty)
