| ALEXANDRIA... WHY? (1979)dir. Youssef ChahineThe Film, Set During World War II Tells Multiple Stories,

إسكندرية ليه | ALEXANDRIA... WHY? (1979) dir. Youssef Chahine The film, set during World War II tells multiple stories, one being the director’s own story through the character of Yehia, a young man in Egypt with directorial ambitions but the passion to be an actor, who frequently watches the same film repeatedly at his local cinema out of fear that he missed something the first time, performs Shakespeare, struggles with social and familial pressures, falls in love, and pursues his dream of studying acting at the Pasadena Playhouse. Subplots include a Jewish-Muslim couple struggling once a pregnancy comes to light, a homosexual romance between a gay English soldier and a wealthy Arab, and a wacky group of communists who plan to kidnap Winston Churchill in hopes of ending the war. (link in title)

“everyone i love still lives there”

don’t break me ….

Sanna Wani, “Who is the Sun, Asking for Sleep?”, My Grief, the Sun // Brenna Twohy, A Coworker Asks Me If I Am Sad, Still

of course, and i see this reflected when i tell others to watch/read media from my country & realise no translation or lack-thereof will ever do the originals justice

Do you ever get sad knowing that you'll never know all the languages and so since translators make choices (they have to) and things sometimes don't fully translate you can never experience every book exactly as it was originally intended to be read?

gay

"I tore open your letter and licked the envelope’s seal for any lingering trace of you."

— Emily Dickinson (in a letter to Susan Gilbert)

{ quotes: I.B.Vyache+these violent delights by micah nemerever/motional motion sickness, phoebe bridgers/anais nin/Sufjan Stevens/uk/Bluets, Maggie Nelson/Albert campus//photos:pinintrest }

To that stupid naive girl I fell in love with I stil check for a good morning text from you and every morning I cry a little inside for it.

— Adrienne Rich, from “Integrity.”