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Foto: Niclas Hammarstr&#246;m</figcaption></figure></div><p>N&#228;r f&#246;rfattaren Daoud Hari ser tillbaka p&#229; hur allt b&#246;rjade minns han en sak: v&#228;dret. I sin bok <em>The Translator &#8211; A Tribesman&#8217;s Memoir of Darfur</em> (2008) ber&#228;ttar han att det p&#229; 1980-talet f&#246;ll regn mer s&#228;llan och blev allt torrare. </p><p>Marken och vattenh&#229;len r&#228;ckte inte l&#228;ngre till. </p><p>De arabiska nomaderna l&#228;t sina boskap beta l&#228;ngre s&#246;derut, in p&#229; &#229;kermarker som tillh&#246;rde zaghawafolket och andra bofasta grupper som fur och masaliter.</p><p>Han, som sj&#228;lv &#228;r zaghawa, skriver i boken:</p><div class="preformatted-block" data-component-name="PreformattedTextBlockToDOM"><label class="hide-text" contenteditable="false">Text within this block will maintain its original spacing when published</label><pre class="text"><em>     F&#246;rr bad de om tillst&#229;nd. N&#229;gra kameler 
     kunde byta &#228;gare. Om ingen 
     &#246;verenskommelse n&#229;ddes &#8211; och om 
     vattnet och gr&#228;set anv&#228;ndes &#228;nd&#229; &#8211;
     kunde en utmaning utf&#228;rdas om en 
     hedersstrid p&#229; ett traditionellt slagf&#228;lt, 
     l&#229;ngt fr&#229;n byarna. Efter striden ans&#229;gs 
     saken vara avgjord. Araber och 
     zaghawa blev genast v&#228;nner igen och 
     &#229;t middag i varandras hem.</em></pre></div><p>Arabiska, nomadiska boskapssk&#246;tare och icke-arabiska, bofasta b&#246;nder levde historiskt sida vid sida. Konflikter l&#246;stes med sedvana, p&#229; avst&#229;nd fr&#229;n civila.</p><p>Sedan f&#246;r&#228;ndrades klimatet. &#214;knen bredde ut sig s&#246;derut. Marken gav mindre. Konkurrensen &#246;kade.</p><p>Och det drabbade inte j&#228;mlikt.</p><div class="captioned-image-container"><figure><a class="image-link image2 is-viewable-img" target="_blank" href="https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!O2HR!,f_auto,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2F7a5b76bf-5583-4d48-82f7-d3ed88aebba9_2000x1334.jpeg" data-component-name="Image2ToDOM"><div class="image2-inset image2-full-screen"><picture><source type="image/webp" srcset="https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!O2HR!,w_424,c_limit,f_webp,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2F7a5b76bf-5583-4d48-82f7-d3ed88aebba9_2000x1334.jpeg 424w, https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!O2HR!,w_848,c_limit,f_webp,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2F7a5b76bf-5583-4d48-82f7-d3ed88aebba9_2000x1334.jpeg 848w, https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!O2HR!,w_1272,c_limit,f_webp,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2F7a5b76bf-5583-4d48-82f7-d3ed88aebba9_2000x1334.jpeg 1272w, https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!O2HR!,w_1456,c_limit,f_webp,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2F7a5b76bf-5583-4d48-82f7-d3ed88aebba9_2000x1334.jpeg 1456w" sizes="100vw"><img src="https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!O2HR!,w_5760,c_limit,f_auto,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2F7a5b76bf-5583-4d48-82f7-d3ed88aebba9_2000x1334.jpeg" data-attrs="{&quot;src&quot;:&quot;https://substack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com/public/images/7a5b76bf-5583-4d48-82f7-d3ed88aebba9_2000x1334.jpeg&quot;,&quot;srcNoWatermark&quot;:null,&quot;fullscreen&quot;:false,&quot;imageSize&quot;:&quot;full&quot;,&quot;height&quot;:971,&quot;width&quot;:1456,&quot;resizeWidth&quot;:null,&quot;bytes&quot;:550039,&quot;alt&quot;:null,&quot;title&quot;:null,&quot;type&quot;:&quot;image/jpeg&quot;,&quot;href&quot;:null,&quot;belowTheFold&quot;:true,&quot;topImage&quot;:false,&quot;internalRedirect&quot;:&quot;https://www.gadworld.se/i/187845565?img=https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2F7a5b76bf-5583-4d48-82f7-d3ed88aebba9_2000x1334.jpeg&quot;,&quot;isProcessing&quot;:false,&quot;align&quot;:&quot;center&quot;,&quot;offset&quot;:false}" class="sizing-fullscreen" alt="" srcset="https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!O2HR!,w_424,c_limit,f_auto,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2F7a5b76bf-5583-4d48-82f7-d3ed88aebba9_2000x1334.jpeg 424w, https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!O2HR!,w_848,c_limit,f_auto,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2F7a5b76bf-5583-4d48-82f7-d3ed88aebba9_2000x1334.jpeg 848w, https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!O2HR!,w_1272,c_limit,f_auto,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2F7a5b76bf-5583-4d48-82f7-d3ed88aebba9_2000x1334.jpeg 1272w, https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!O2HR!,w_1456,c_limit,f_auto,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2F7a5b76bf-5583-4d48-82f7-d3ed88aebba9_2000x1334.jpeg 1456w" sizes="100vw" loading="lazy"></picture><div class="image-link-expand"><div class="pencraft pc-display-flex pc-gap-8 pc-reset"><button tabindex="0" type="button" class="pencraft pc-reset pencraft icon-container restack-image"><svg role="img" width="20" height="20" viewBox="0 0 20 20" fill="none" stroke-width="1.5" stroke="var(--color-fg-primary)" stroke-linecap="round" stroke-linejoin="round" xmlns="http://www.w3.org/2000/svg"><g><title></title><path d="M2.53001 7.81595C3.49179 4.73911 6.43281 2.5 9.91173 2.5C13.1684 2.5 15.9537 4.46214 17.0852 7.23684L17.6179 8.67647M17.6179 8.67647L18.5002 4.26471M17.6179 8.67647L13.6473 6.91176M17.4995 12.1841C16.5378 15.2609 13.5967 17.5 10.1178 17.5C6.86118 17.5 4.07589 15.5379 2.94432 12.7632L2.41165 11.3235M2.41165 11.3235L1.5293 15.7353M2.41165 11.3235L6.38224 13.0882"></path></g></svg></button><button tabindex="0" type="button" class="pencraft pc-reset pencraft icon-container view-image"><svg xmlns="http://www.w3.org/2000/svg" width="20" height="20" viewBox="0 0 24 24" fill="none" stroke="currentColor" stroke-width="2" stroke-linecap="round" stroke-linejoin="round" class="lucide lucide-maximize2 lucide-maximize-2"><polyline points="15 3 21 3 21 9"></polyline><polyline points="9 21 3 21 3 15"></polyline><line x1="21" x2="14" y1="3" y2="10"></line><line x1="3" x2="10" y1="21" y2="14"></line></svg></button></div></div></div></a><figcaption class="image-caption">&#214;knen i regionen expanderar s&#246;derut cirka 0,7 km &#229;rligen. Foto: Niclas Hammarstr&#246;m</figcaption></figure></div><p>De icke-arabiska, bofasta grupperna i Darfur i Sudan var redan politiskt och ekonomiskt marginaliserade, vilket har sin rot i kolonialismen. N&#228;r klimatstressen &#246;kade f&#246;rvandlades bristen p&#229; land och vatten till desperation, som 2003 exploderade i v&#228;pnade rebelluppror mot staten.</p><p>Den d&#229;varande diktatorn Omar al-Bashir valde att sl&#229; ner dem genom att utnyttja konflikterna mellan grupperna i Darfur. Bev&#228;pnade vissa. L&#228;mnade andra oskyddade. </p><p>Daoud Hari f&#246;rklarar:</p><div class="preformatted-block" data-component-name="PreformattedTextBlockToDOM"><label class="hide-text" contenteditable="false">Text within this block will maintain its original spacing when published</label><pre class="text">     <em>Det som var annorlunda nu var att 
     Sudans arabiska regering, eftersom 
     den ville driva bort de mer bofasta 
     m&#228;nniskorna fr&#229;n marken, tog arabiska 
     nomaders parti och f&#246;rs&#229;g n&#229;gra med 
     vapen, helikoptrar, bombflyg och 
     stridsvagnar f&#246;r att avg&#246;ra tvister.</em></pre></div><p>Klimatkrisen gjorde allt br&#228;nnbart och staten valde att t&#228;nda elden. De arabiska ryttarmiliser som centralmakten bev&#228;pnade kallades <em>Janjaweed</em>, ungef&#228;r &#8220;dj&#228;vlar till h&#228;st&#8221;. Deras v&#229;ld mot civila mellan 2003 och 2005 <a href="https://2001-2009.state.gov/secretary/former/powell/remarks/36032.htm">konstaterades av USA och andra som folkmord</a>.</p><div class="captioned-image-container"><figure><a class="image-link image2" target="_blank" href="https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!UQ3f!,f_auto,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2F935269c8-3de6-40e6-b6c1-4f4a38b9f4d0_960x184.png" data-component-name="Image2ToDOM"><div class="image2-inset"><picture><source type="image/webp" srcset="https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!UQ3f!,w_424,c_limit,f_webp,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2F935269c8-3de6-40e6-b6c1-4f4a38b9f4d0_960x184.png 424w, https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!UQ3f!,w_848,c_limit,f_webp,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2F935269c8-3de6-40e6-b6c1-4f4a38b9f4d0_960x184.png 848w, https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!UQ3f!,w_1272,c_limit,f_webp,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2F935269c8-3de6-40e6-b6c1-4f4a38b9f4d0_960x184.png 1272w, https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!UQ3f!,w_1456,c_limit,f_webp,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2F935269c8-3de6-40e6-b6c1-4f4a38b9f4d0_960x184.png 1456w" sizes="100vw"><img src="https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!UQ3f!,w_1456,c_limit,f_auto,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2F935269c8-3de6-40e6-b6c1-4f4a38b9f4d0_960x184.png" width="960" height="184" data-attrs="{&quot;src&quot;:&quot;https://substack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com/public/images/935269c8-3de6-40e6-b6c1-4f4a38b9f4d0_960x184.png&quot;,&quot;srcNoWatermark&quot;:null,&quot;fullscreen&quot;:null,&quot;imageSize&quot;:null,&quot;height&quot;:184,&quot;width&quot;:960,&quot;resizeWidth&quot;:null,&quot;bytes&quot;:75961,&quot;alt&quot;:null,&quot;title&quot;:null,&quot;type&quot;:&quot;image/png&quot;,&quot;href&quot;:null,&quot;belowTheFold&quot;:true,&quot;topImage&quot;:false,&quot;internalRedirect&quot;:&quot;https://www.gadworld.se/i/196998679?img=https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2F6ede7fae-4642-4e8d-bd84-b9d5e518fe64_960x540.png&quot;,&quot;isProcessing&quot;:false,&quot;align&quot;:null,&quot;offset&quot;:false}" class="sizing-normal" alt="" srcset="https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!UQ3f!,w_424,c_limit,f_auto,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2F935269c8-3de6-40e6-b6c1-4f4a38b9f4d0_960x184.png 424w, https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!UQ3f!,w_848,c_limit,f_auto,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2F935269c8-3de6-40e6-b6c1-4f4a38b9f4d0_960x184.png 848w, https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!UQ3f!,w_1272,c_limit,f_auto,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2F935269c8-3de6-40e6-b6c1-4f4a38b9f4d0_960x184.png 1272w, https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!UQ3f!,w_1456,c_limit,f_auto,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2F935269c8-3de6-40e6-b6c1-4f4a38b9f4d0_960x184.png 1456w" sizes="100vw" loading="lazy"></picture><div></div></div></a></figure></div><p>&#197;r 2007 satte FN:s d&#229;varande generalsekreterare Ban Ki-moon ord p&#229; det m&#229;nga missade n&#228;r folkmordet reducerades till n&#229;got etniskt:</p><p>&#8220;Ser man till r&#246;tterna uppt&#228;cker man en mer komplex dynamik. Bland de m&#229;nga sociala och politiska orsakerna b&#246;rjade Darfurkonflikten som en ekologisk kris.&#8221;</p><p>M&#229;nga internationella observat&#246;rer <a href="https://wfpusa.org/news/the-first-climate-change-conflict/">kallar Darfur f&#246;r v&#228;rldens f&#246;rsta klimatkrig</a>. Inte f&#246;r att klimatet ensamt skapade v&#229;ldet, utan f&#246;r att klimatkrisen f&#246;rst&#228;rkte redan existerande or&#228;ttvisor och gjorde v&#229;ld mer sannolikt. </p><p class="button-wrapper" data-attrs="{&quot;url&quot;:&quot;https://www.gadworld.se/subscribe?&quot;,&quot;text&quot;:&quot;Subscribe now&quot;,&quot;action&quot;:null,&quot;class&quot;:null}" data-component-name="ButtonCreateButton"><a class="button primary" href="https://www.gadworld.se/subscribe?"><span>Subscribe now</span></a></p><div class="captioned-image-container"><figure><a class="image-link image2 is-viewable-img" target="_blank" href="https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!3tOk!,f_auto,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2Fc9d13922-90a1-4a99-906b-ad3ab845048a_2000x1334.jpeg" data-component-name="Image2ToDOM"><div class="image2-inset image2-full-screen"><picture><source type="image/webp" 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class="image-link-expand"><div class="pencraft pc-display-flex pc-gap-8 pc-reset"><button tabindex="0" type="button" class="pencraft pc-reset pencraft icon-container restack-image"><svg role="img" width="20" height="20" viewBox="0 0 20 20" fill="none" stroke-width="1.5" stroke="var(--color-fg-primary)" stroke-linecap="round" stroke-linejoin="round" xmlns="http://www.w3.org/2000/svg"><g><title></title><path d="M2.53001 7.81595C3.49179 4.73911 6.43281 2.5 9.91173 2.5C13.1684 2.5 15.9537 4.46214 17.0852 7.23684L17.6179 8.67647M17.6179 8.67647L18.5002 4.26471M17.6179 8.67647L13.6473 6.91176M17.4995 12.1841C16.5378 15.2609 13.5967 17.5 10.1178 17.5C6.86118 17.5 4.07589 15.5379 2.94432 12.7632L2.41165 11.3235M2.41165 11.3235L1.5293 15.7353M2.41165 11.3235L6.38224 13.0882"></path></g></svg></button><button tabindex="0" type="button" class="pencraft pc-reset pencraft icon-container view-image"><svg xmlns="http://www.w3.org/2000/svg" width="20" height="20" viewBox="0 0 24 24" fill="none" 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Foto: Niclas Hammarstr&#246;m</figcaption></figure></div><p>V&#229;ldet fr&#229;n 2003 tog aldrig slut. Det fortsatte l&#229;gintensivt och blev h&#246;gintensivt igen n&#228;r inb&#246;rdeskriget i Sudan br&#246;t ut 2023, efter att tv&#229; generaler f&#246;rst hj&#228;lptes &#229;t att st&#246;rta diktatorn al-Bashir och sedan v&#228;nde vapnen mot varandra. </p><p>De som i dag etniskt rensar de icke-arabiska stammarna &#228;r samma<em> Janjaweed </em>som f&#246;r tjugo &#229;r sedan. De har ett annat namn, Rapid Support Forces (RSF), men de massakrerar samma folkgrupper.</p><p>USA bed&#246;mer det <a href="https://www.hrw.org/breaking-news/2025/01/08/us-state-department-determines-genocide-sudan">p&#229; nytt som folkmord</a>, liksom <a href="https://www.ohchr.org/en/press-releases/2026/02/sudan-evidence-el-fasher-reveals-genocidal-campaign-targeting-non-arab?sub-site=HRC">FN</a>.</p><p>Och tittar man p&#229; dagens Afrika &#8211; p&#229; torka, markf&#246;rst&#246;ring, vattenbrist och snabbt v&#228;xande befolkningar d&#228;r stater &#228;r svaga och det finns mycket vapen &#8211; &#228;r Darfur inte ett undantag.</p><p>Det &#228;r en f&#246;rvarning.</p><div class="subscription-widget-wrap-editor" data-attrs="{&quot;url&quot;:&quot;https://www.gadworld.se/subscribe?&quot;,&quot;text&quot;:&quot;Subscribe&quot;,&quot;language&quot;:&quot;en&quot;}" data-component-name="SubscribeWidgetToDOM"><div class="subscription-widget show-subscribe"><div class="preamble"><p class="cta-caption">Gad World &#228;r l&#228;sarfinansierad. Bli g&#228;rna prenumerant f&#246;r att st&#246;dja oss och bli uppdaterad om v&#229;rt arbete.</p></div><form class="subscription-widget-subscribe"><input type="email" class="email-input" name="email" placeholder="Type your email&#8230;" tabindex="-1"><input type="submit" class="button primary" value="Subscribe"><div class="fake-input-wrapper"><div class="fake-input"></div><div class="fake-button"></div></div></form></div></div><div class="callout-block" data-callout="true"><h3>Klimatf&#246;r&#228;ndringar &#246;kar konflikter</h3><p><strong>V&#228;rme.</strong> Risken f&#246;r v&#228;pnad konflikt blir 20 procent h&#246;gre f&#246;r varje halv grads temperatur&#246;kning. Det totala antalet v&#228;pnade konflikter &#228;r p&#229; den h&#246;gsta niv&#229;n p&#229; n&#228;stan ett sekel, vilket leder till rekordm&#229;nga internflyktingar. </p><p><strong>Torka.</strong> Klimatf&#246;r&#228;ndringarna har s&#228;rskilt drabbat Afrika, d&#228;r torka och hetta eskalerar konflikter. </p><p><strong>Hunger. </strong>Sv&#228;lt &#228;r mest utbrett i konfliktdrabbade omr&#229;den, eftersom konflikter f&#246;rhindrar organisering och motst&#229;ndskraft mot klimatf&#246;r&#228;ndringar och matbrist. </p><p><em>K&#228;lla: <a href="https://news.stanford.edu/2019/06/12/climate-change-cause-armed-conflict/">Stanford University</a>, <a href="https://www.bokus.com/bok/9789177956525/klimatboken/?srsltid=AfmBOooRdbdkwGVbHw4IXzSK-JVd6U3O2GxybXKvmxZGQ30XPzH8DtXJ">Klimatboken</a>, <a href="https://nation.africa/kenya/health/how-africa-can-fix-its-chronic-food-insecurity-challenges-4314140">African Centre for Strategic Studies</a> </em></p></div><div><hr></div><p>L&#228;s v&#229;rt reportage om Sudan: </p><div class="digest-post-embed" data-attrs="{&quot;nodeId&quot;:&quot;c6854aa3-e5ea-46c1-9943-3991e8f4ad56&quot;,&quot;caption&quot;:&quot;Den gulbruna sanden m&#228;ttar morgonluften, som redan &#228;r het. 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Copyright: @Diskb&#228;nkstecknaren</figcaption></figure></div><p>My reality is shaped by where I place my gaze and how long I allow it to rest there. What I become accustomed to seeing. What I let in. But also what I stop seeing as a result.</p><p>I wake up to birdsong and the familiar feeling that I have missed something important. That I have let someone down. That I should be better informed. Better read. More engaged. Is it shame?</p><p>The world moves faster than I can understand it.</p><p>But underneath that, a little deeper down, there is something else. A feeling of being indebted to suffering I can never repay. I know things. I see things. And then I have to make breakfast.</p><div class="captioned-image-container"><figure><a class="image-link image2 is-viewable-img" target="_blank" href="https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!TjB_!,f_auto,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2Fbf8ec8f0-e44b-4150-aadb-b31641a8e2f5_1231x1223.jpeg" data-component-name="Image2ToDOM"><div class="image2-inset"><picture><source type="image/webp" srcset="https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!TjB_!,w_424,c_limit,f_webp,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2Fbf8ec8f0-e44b-4150-aadb-b31641a8e2f5_1231x1223.jpeg 424w, https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!TjB_!,w_848,c_limit,f_webp,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2Fbf8ec8f0-e44b-4150-aadb-b31641a8e2f5_1231x1223.jpeg 848w, https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!TjB_!,w_1272,c_limit,f_webp,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2Fbf8ec8f0-e44b-4150-aadb-b31641a8e2f5_1231x1223.jpeg 1272w, https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!TjB_!,w_1456,c_limit,f_webp,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2Fbf8ec8f0-e44b-4150-aadb-b31641a8e2f5_1231x1223.jpeg 1456w" sizes="100vw"><img src="https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!TjB_!,w_1456,c_limit,f_auto,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2Fbf8ec8f0-e44b-4150-aadb-b31641a8e2f5_1231x1223.jpeg" width="1231" height="1223" data-attrs="{&quot;src&quot;:&quot;https://substack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com/public/images/bf8ec8f0-e44b-4150-aadb-b31641a8e2f5_1231x1223.jpeg&quot;,&quot;srcNoWatermark&quot;:null,&quot;fullscreen&quot;:null,&quot;imageSize&quot;:null,&quot;height&quot;:1223,&quot;width&quot;:1231,&quot;resizeWidth&quot;:null,&quot;bytes&quot;:98332,&quot;alt&quot;:null,&quot;title&quot;:null,&quot;type&quot;:&quot;image/jpeg&quot;,&quot;href&quot;:null,&quot;belowTheFold&quot;:false,&quot;topImage&quot;:false,&quot;internalRedirect&quot;:&quot;https://www.gadworld.se/i/199584900?img=https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2Fda67f45a-f95c-45b9-a12d-31fb76f31224_1231x1231.jpeg&quot;,&quot;isProcessing&quot;:false,&quot;align&quot;:null,&quot;offset&quot;:false}" class="sizing-normal" alt="" srcset="https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!TjB_!,w_424,c_limit,f_auto,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2Fbf8ec8f0-e44b-4150-aadb-b31641a8e2f5_1231x1223.jpeg 424w, https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!TjB_!,w_848,c_limit,f_auto,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2Fbf8ec8f0-e44b-4150-aadb-b31641a8e2f5_1231x1223.jpeg 848w, https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!TjB_!,w_1272,c_limit,f_auto,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2Fbf8ec8f0-e44b-4150-aadb-b31641a8e2f5_1231x1223.jpeg 1272w, https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!TjB_!,w_1456,c_limit,f_auto,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2Fbf8ec8f0-e44b-4150-aadb-b31641a8e2f5_1231x1223.jpeg 1456w" sizes="100vw"></picture><div class="image-link-expand"><div class="pencraft pc-display-flex pc-gap-8 pc-reset"><button tabindex="0" type="button" class="pencraft pc-reset pencraft icon-container restack-image"><svg role="img" width="20" height="20" viewBox="0 0 20 20" fill="none" stroke-width="1.5" stroke="var(--color-fg-primary)" stroke-linecap="round" stroke-linejoin="round" xmlns="http://www.w3.org/2000/svg"><g><title></title><path d="M2.53001 7.81595C3.49179 4.73911 6.43281 2.5 9.91173 2.5C13.1684 2.5 15.9537 4.46214 17.0852 7.23684L17.6179 8.67647M17.6179 8.67647L18.5002 4.26471M17.6179 8.67647L13.6473 6.91176M17.4995 12.1841C16.5378 15.2609 13.5967 17.5 10.1178 17.5C6.86118 17.5 4.07589 15.5379 2.94432 12.7632L2.41165 11.3235M2.41165 11.3235L1.5293 15.7353M2.41165 11.3235L6.38224 13.0882"></path></g></svg></button><button tabindex="0" type="button" class="pencraft pc-reset pencraft icon-container view-image"><svg xmlns="http://www.w3.org/2000/svg" width="20" height="20" viewBox="0 0 24 24" fill="none" stroke="currentColor" stroke-width="2" stroke-linecap="round" stroke-linejoin="round" class="lucide lucide-maximize2 lucide-maximize-2"><polyline points="15 3 21 3 21 9"></polyline><polyline points="9 21 3 21 3 15"></polyline><line x1="21" x2="14" y1="3" y2="10"></line><line x1="3" x2="10" y1="21" y2="14"></line></svg></button></div></div></div></a><figcaption class="image-caption">Reality changes when we dare to truly see it.. Photo: Privat</figcaption></figure></div><p>There is a particular kind of fragmentation in this that I don&#8217;t think human beings have always lived with. Being constantly exposed to the pain of the world without any proportional way to respond. Without even knowing whether we should respond. It is not only overwhelming, it is a kind of unfinished movement the body carries around.</p><p>Perhaps it has always been this way, but what feels different now is that everything is happening at once, in many different places, roaring straight into the nervous system.</p><p>And in the middle of all that, we are expected to remain functioning human beings. Parents. Friends. Colleagues. People who still want to feel deeply and do something real without breaking apart.</p><div class="captioned-image-container"><figure><a class="image-link image2 is-viewable-img" target="_blank" href="https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!4TCK!,f_auto,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2Fe494e2f6-73b3-496d-9207-a6568f5f3be3_960x1280.jpeg" data-component-name="Image2ToDOM"><div class="image2-inset"><picture><source type="image/webp" srcset="https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!4TCK!,w_424,c_limit,f_webp,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2Fe494e2f6-73b3-496d-9207-a6568f5f3be3_960x1280.jpeg 424w, https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!4TCK!,w_848,c_limit,f_webp,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2Fe494e2f6-73b3-496d-9207-a6568f5f3be3_960x1280.jpeg 848w, https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!4TCK!,w_1272,c_limit,f_webp,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2Fe494e2f6-73b3-496d-9207-a6568f5f3be3_960x1280.jpeg 1272w, https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!4TCK!,w_1456,c_limit,f_webp,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2Fe494e2f6-73b3-496d-9207-a6568f5f3be3_960x1280.jpeg 1456w" sizes="100vw"><img src="https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!4TCK!,w_1456,c_limit,f_auto,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2Fe494e2f6-73b3-496d-9207-a6568f5f3be3_960x1280.jpeg" width="960" height="1280" data-attrs="{&quot;src&quot;:&quot;https://substack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com/public/images/e494e2f6-73b3-496d-9207-a6568f5f3be3_960x1280.jpeg&quot;,&quot;srcNoWatermark&quot;:null,&quot;fullscreen&quot;:null,&quot;imageSize&quot;:null,&quot;height&quot;:1280,&quot;width&quot;:960,&quot;resizeWidth&quot;:null,&quot;bytes&quot;:143146,&quot;alt&quot;:null,&quot;title&quot;:null,&quot;type&quot;:&quot;image/jpeg&quot;,&quot;href&quot;:null,&quot;belowTheFold&quot;:true,&quot;topImage&quot;:false,&quot;internalRedirect&quot;:&quot;https://www.gadworld.se/i/199584900?img=https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2Fe494e2f6-73b3-496d-9207-a6568f5f3be3_960x1280.jpeg&quot;,&quot;isProcessing&quot;:false,&quot;align&quot;:null,&quot;offset&quot;:false}" class="sizing-normal" alt="" srcset="https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!4TCK!,w_424,c_limit,f_auto,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2Fe494e2f6-73b3-496d-9207-a6568f5f3be3_960x1280.jpeg 424w, https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!4TCK!,w_848,c_limit,f_auto,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2Fe494e2f6-73b3-496d-9207-a6568f5f3be3_960x1280.jpeg 848w, https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!4TCK!,w_1272,c_limit,f_auto,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2Fe494e2f6-73b3-496d-9207-a6568f5f3be3_960x1280.jpeg 1272w, https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!4TCK!,w_1456,c_limit,f_auto,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2Fe494e2f6-73b3-496d-9207-a6568f5f3be3_960x1280.jpeg 1456w" sizes="100vw" loading="lazy"></picture><div class="image-link-expand"><div class="pencraft pc-display-flex pc-gap-8 pc-reset"><button tabindex="0" type="button" class="pencraft pc-reset pencraft icon-container restack-image"><svg role="img" width="20" height="20" viewBox="0 0 20 20" fill="none" stroke-width="1.5" stroke="var(--color-fg-primary)" stroke-linecap="round" stroke-linejoin="round" xmlns="http://www.w3.org/2000/svg"><g><title></title><path d="M2.53001 7.81595C3.49179 4.73911 6.43281 2.5 9.91173 2.5C13.1684 2.5 15.9537 4.46214 17.0852 7.23684L17.6179 8.67647M17.6179 8.67647L18.5002 4.26471M17.6179 8.67647L13.6473 6.91176M17.4995 12.1841C16.5378 15.2609 13.5967 17.5 10.1178 17.5C6.86118 17.5 4.07589 15.5379 2.94432 12.7632L2.41165 11.3235M2.41165 11.3235L1.5293 15.7353M2.41165 11.3235L6.38224 13.0882"></path></g></svg></button><button tabindex="0" type="button" class="pencraft pc-reset pencraft icon-container view-image"><svg xmlns="http://www.w3.org/2000/svg" width="20" height="20" viewBox="0 0 24 24" fill="none" stroke="currentColor" stroke-width="2" stroke-linecap="round" stroke-linejoin="round" class="lucide lucide-maximize2 lucide-maximize-2"><polyline points="15 3 21 3 21 9"></polyline><polyline points="9 21 3 21 3 15"></polyline><line x1="21" x2="14" y1="3" y2="10"></line><line x1="3" x2="10" y1="21" y2="14"></line></svg></button></div></div></div></a><figcaption class="image-caption">I who have never known men. Read it. Photo: Anna Branten</figcaption></figure></div><p>What troubles me most is not the volume of it all, but how deliberately everything is designed to keep me there. Everything and everyone is competing for my gaze. Not only for my opinions or beliefs, but for my attention.</p><p>What should I focus on? What should I be afraid of? What should I have time to react to before the next thing takes over?</p><p>And the systems surrounding reality &#8211; the algorithms, the platforms, the logic of the news cycle &#8211; have learned exactly how to hold a human being&#8217;s attention for a few seconds longer. Sometimes they stroke me gently in the direction I am already moving. Sometimes they force my eyes open, stir emotion, only to numb them again moments later.</p><div class="captioned-image-container"><figure><a class="image-link image2" target="_blank" href="https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!euiH!,f_auto,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2F8af7f999-6772-463c-a87c-49c52f857127_960x123.png" data-component-name="Image2ToDOM"><div class="image2-inset"><picture><source type="image/webp" srcset="https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!euiH!,w_424,c_limit,f_webp,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2F8af7f999-6772-463c-a87c-49c52f857127_960x123.png 424w, https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!euiH!,w_848,c_limit,f_webp,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2F8af7f999-6772-463c-a87c-49c52f857127_960x123.png 848w, https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!euiH!,w_1272,c_limit,f_webp,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2F8af7f999-6772-463c-a87c-49c52f857127_960x123.png 1272w, https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!euiH!,w_1456,c_limit,f_webp,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2F8af7f999-6772-463c-a87c-49c52f857127_960x123.png 1456w" sizes="100vw"><img src="https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!euiH!,w_1456,c_limit,f_auto,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2F8af7f999-6772-463c-a87c-49c52f857127_960x123.png" width="960" height="123" data-attrs="{&quot;src&quot;:&quot;https://substack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com/public/images/8af7f999-6772-463c-a87c-49c52f857127_960x123.png&quot;,&quot;srcNoWatermark&quot;:null,&quot;fullscreen&quot;:null,&quot;imageSize&quot;:null,&quot;height&quot;:123,&quot;width&quot;:960,&quot;resizeWidth&quot;:null,&quot;bytes&quot;:59759,&quot;alt&quot;:null,&quot;title&quot;:null,&quot;type&quot;:&quot;image/png&quot;,&quot;href&quot;:null,&quot;belowTheFold&quot;:true,&quot;topImage&quot;:false,&quot;internalRedirect&quot;:&quot;https://www.gadworld.se/i/200456328?img=https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2F206e0aef-49e9-43b7-b15a-881c12917425_960x540.png&quot;,&quot;isProcessing&quot;:false,&quot;align&quot;:null,&quot;offset&quot;:false}" class="sizing-normal" alt="" srcset="https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!euiH!,w_424,c_limit,f_auto,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2F8af7f999-6772-463c-a87c-49c52f857127_960x123.png 424w, https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!euiH!,w_848,c_limit,f_auto,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2F8af7f999-6772-463c-a87c-49c52f857127_960x123.png 848w, https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!euiH!,w_1272,c_limit,f_auto,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2F8af7f999-6772-463c-a87c-49c52f857127_960x123.png 1272w, https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!euiH!,w_1456,c_limit,f_auto,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2F8af7f999-6772-463c-a87c-49c52f857127_960x123.png 1456w" sizes="100vw" loading="lazy"></picture><div></div></div></a></figure></div><p>At the same time, it has become harder to stay with a thought. A feeling. A conversation. A fleeting sense of discomfort easily turns into scrolling, work, distraction. It is as if the whole culture is training us never to rest our gaze anywhere for too long.</p><p>My attention breaks while writing this text. I jump to the news feed. A child who has lost their entire family. I stay for three seconds. An AI-generated influencer. I scroll on. Then an advertisement for shoes.</p><div class="preformatted-block" data-component-name="PreformattedTextBlockToDOM"><label class="hide-text" contenteditable="false">Text within this block will maintain its original spacing when published</label><pre class="text"><em>     My daughter asked me when she was six. 
     "If you could, would you go to space?"
     "Yes, I'd love to."
     "But you are already in space. 
     Earth is already in space."
     Our sense of separation on full display, 
     exposed by the raw insight only
     a child possess.
     &#8211; Dennis Hedenskog</em></pre></div><p>I don&#8217;t know what this does to me over time. I don&#8217;t know what it does to us. What happens to a society where we quickly categorise, react, judge and move on? Where everything must become content before it has had a chance to become experience?</p><p>Sometimes I wonder whether we are not exhausted by work at all, but by spending too long with our gaze fixed on things that drain our life force. Feeds that keep us reactive. Ideals that leave us feeling inadequate. Visions of success and progress that make us feel as though we are falling behind.</p><p>The brain can only be consciously aware of a fraction of everything we take in, but I have read that the rest is stored somewhere anyway. In the fatigue. In the anxiety. In the feeling that something is wrong, even when we cannot quite put it into words. The body knows.</p><p>Sometimes everything I gather becomes a powerful feeling that guides me beyond the rational, but more often it feels heavy.</p><div class="captioned-image-container"><figure><a class="image-link image2 is-viewable-img" target="_blank" href="https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!wFm0!,f_auto,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2Fca76f06e-62c0-4dd6-820e-cd57a2920145_1200x1600.jpeg" data-component-name="Image2ToDOM"><div class="image2-inset"><picture><source type="image/webp" srcset="https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!wFm0!,w_424,c_limit,f_webp,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2Fca76f06e-62c0-4dd6-820e-cd57a2920145_1200x1600.jpeg 424w, https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!wFm0!,w_848,c_limit,f_webp,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2Fca76f06e-62c0-4dd6-820e-cd57a2920145_1200x1600.jpeg 848w, https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!wFm0!,w_1272,c_limit,f_webp,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2Fca76f06e-62c0-4dd6-820e-cd57a2920145_1200x1600.jpeg 1272w, https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!wFm0!,w_1456,c_limit,f_webp,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2Fca76f06e-62c0-4dd6-820e-cd57a2920145_1200x1600.jpeg 1456w" sizes="100vw"><img src="https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!wFm0!,w_1456,c_limit,f_auto,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2Fca76f06e-62c0-4dd6-820e-cd57a2920145_1200x1600.jpeg" width="1200" height="1600" data-attrs="{&quot;src&quot;:&quot;https://substack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com/public/images/ca76f06e-62c0-4dd6-820e-cd57a2920145_1200x1600.jpeg&quot;,&quot;srcNoWatermark&quot;:null,&quot;fullscreen&quot;:null,&quot;imageSize&quot;:null,&quot;height&quot;:1600,&quot;width&quot;:1200,&quot;resizeWidth&quot;:null,&quot;bytes&quot;:177843,&quot;alt&quot;:null,&quot;title&quot;:null,&quot;type&quot;:&quot;image/jpeg&quot;,&quot;href&quot;:null,&quot;belowTheFold&quot;:true,&quot;topImage&quot;:false,&quot;internalRedirect&quot;:&quot;https://www.gadworld.se/i/199584900?img=https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2Fca76f06e-62c0-4dd6-820e-cd57a2920145_1200x1600.jpeg&quot;,&quot;isProcessing&quot;:false,&quot;align&quot;:null,&quot;offset&quot;:false}" class="sizing-normal" alt="" srcset="https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!wFm0!,w_424,c_limit,f_auto,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2Fca76f06e-62c0-4dd6-820e-cd57a2920145_1200x1600.jpeg 424w, https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!wFm0!,w_848,c_limit,f_auto,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2Fca76f06e-62c0-4dd6-820e-cd57a2920145_1200x1600.jpeg 848w, https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!wFm0!,w_1272,c_limit,f_auto,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2Fca76f06e-62c0-4dd6-820e-cd57a2920145_1200x1600.jpeg 1272w, https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!wFm0!,w_1456,c_limit,f_auto,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2Fca76f06e-62c0-4dd6-820e-cd57a2920145_1200x1600.jpeg 1456w" sizes="100vw" loading="lazy"></picture><div class="image-link-expand"><div class="pencraft pc-display-flex pc-gap-8 pc-reset"><button tabindex="0" type="button" class="pencraft pc-reset pencraft icon-container restack-image"><svg role="img" width="20" height="20" viewBox="0 0 20 20" fill="none" stroke-width="1.5" stroke="var(--color-fg-primary)" stroke-linecap="round" stroke-linejoin="round" xmlns="http://www.w3.org/2000/svg"><g><title></title><path d="M2.53001 7.81595C3.49179 4.73911 6.43281 2.5 9.91173 2.5C13.1684 2.5 15.9537 4.46214 17.0852 7.23684L17.6179 8.67647M17.6179 8.67647L18.5002 4.26471M17.6179 8.67647L13.6473 6.91176M17.4995 12.1841C16.5378 15.2609 13.5967 17.5 10.1178 17.5C6.86118 17.5 4.07589 15.5379 2.94432 12.7632L2.41165 11.3235M2.41165 11.3235L1.5293 15.7353M2.41165 11.3235L6.38224 13.0882"></path></g></svg></button><button tabindex="0" type="button" class="pencraft pc-reset pencraft icon-container view-image"><svg xmlns="http://www.w3.org/2000/svg" width="20" height="20" viewBox="0 0 24 24" fill="none" stroke="currentColor" stroke-width="2" stroke-linecap="round" stroke-linejoin="round" class="lucide lucide-maximize2 lucide-maximize-2"><polyline points="15 3 21 3 21 9"></polyline><polyline points="9 21 3 21 3 15"></polyline><line x1="21" x2="14" y1="3" y2="10"></line><line x1="3" x2="10" y1="21" y2="14"></line></svg></button></div></div></div></a><figcaption class="image-caption">I can choose what I want to look at. Photo: Anna Branten</figcaption></figure></div><p>But it works both ways. The moment I become aware that my attention is being owned, I can also choose to place my gaze elsewhere. On a place I would otherwise walk past. On a person I want to understand. On the light through the trees. Or on a book from another time.</p><p>Or on myself. Not with the efficient, judging gaze that measures everything through performance, but with a more forgiving one. A gaze that helps me see the context more clearly. The exhaustion more clearly. Things as they actually are.</p><p>Reality looks different when we dare to truly see it. Not selectively. Not reactively. But through a gaze we have consciously chosen for ourselves.</p><p>I think that is where I have to begin.</p><p></p><p></p><div class="subscription-widget-wrap-editor" data-attrs="{&quot;url&quot;:&quot;https://www.gadworld.se/subscribe?&quot;,&quot;text&quot;:&quot;Subscribe&quot;,&quot;language&quot;:&quot;en&quot;}" data-component-name="SubscribeWidgetToDOM"><div class="subscription-widget show-subscribe"><div class="preamble"><p class="cta-caption">Gad World is reader-supported. To receive new posts and support the work, consider becoming a free or paid subscriber.</p></div><form class="subscription-widget-subscribe"><input type="email" class="email-input" name="email" placeholder="Type your email&#8230;" tabindex="-1"><input type="submit" class="button primary" value="Subscribe"><div class="fake-input-wrapper"><div class="fake-input"></div><div class="fake-button"></div></div></form></div></div><p></p>]]></content:encoded></item><item><title><![CDATA[Smooth stones and crushed olives ]]></title><description><![CDATA[POSTCARD | GAZA #4]]></description><link>https://www.gadworld.se/p/smooth-stones-and-crushed-olives</link><guid isPermaLink="false">https://www.gadworld.se/p/smooth-stones-and-crushed-olives</guid><dc:creator><![CDATA[Khulud Shaban]]></dc:creator><pubDate>Wed, 03 Jun 2026 12:49:59 GMT</pubDate><enclosure 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Now, the olive trees have been destroyed in a "green genocide." Photo: Private</figcaption></figure></div><p>When September arrived, the season began where our hearts met before our hands did &#8211; it was time for the olive harvest. In our <em>bayara</em> (orchard and farm), the whole family gathered. And when we Gazans say family, we mean everyone: children, siblings, nieces and nephews, parents, in-laws, uncles, cousins &#8230;</p><p>We were some thirty souls, young and old, spreading colourful cloths on the ground beneath the silver-green trees to begin picking, a blessing in an atmosphere filled with laughter and joyful smiles.</p><p>Everyone had their part. The short ones tended the small trees, while the tall climbed into the great, swaying canopies with poles to reach the fruit hanging highest, under the roof of the sky.</p><div class="captioned-image-container"><figure><a class="image-link image2 is-viewable-img" target="_blank" href="https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!o__X!,f_auto,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2F1181f411-bab3-4b52-8cbd-cc6f2b742486_1290x1278.jpeg" data-component-name="Image2ToDOM"><div class="image2-inset"><picture><source type="image/webp" srcset="https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!o__X!,w_424,c_limit,f_webp,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2F1181f411-bab3-4b52-8cbd-cc6f2b742486_1290x1278.jpeg 424w, 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Photo: Private</figcaption></figure></div><p>These moments were filled with anticipation. We wanted those olives on the table the moment they were picked, and we didn&#8217;t wait &#8211; we all sat on the ground right where we had harvested, hunting for smooth stones to gently crush the olives in a spontaneous tradition we call <em>zaitun jarjir</em> (literally, crushed olives).</p><p>In a flash, we mixed our zaitun jarjir with lemon slices, salt, a splash of vinegar, and hot red Gaza chilli. It was a pickle ready to be eaten that same day, when we were too impatient to wait the long weeks that regular curing requires.</p><p>During those harvest days, we would light an open fire and brew tea, letting it steep with sage in a pot brought from home, served in proper tea glasses, and pick fresh oranges for a break.</p><p>At the end of the day, we returned from the groves to find that the grandmothers had prepared a wonderful meal as a reward for our labour. A true feast for us all.</p><p class="button-wrapper" data-attrs="{&quot;url&quot;:&quot;https://www.gadworld.se/subscribe?&quot;,&quot;text&quot;:&quot;Subscribe now&quot;,&quot;action&quot;:null,&quot;class&quot;:null}" data-component-name="ButtonCreateButton"><a class="button primary" href="https://www.gadworld.se/subscribe?"><span>Subscribe now</span></a></p><div class="captioned-image-container"><figure><a class="image-link image2 is-viewable-img" target="_blank" href="https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!Cv4b!,f_auto,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2Ffa5f8ab0-ec38-4fc8-8276-6eca60913b3d_960x539.jpeg" data-component-name="Image2ToDOM"><div class="image2-inset"><picture><source type="image/webp" 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Photo: Khulud Shaban</figcaption></figure></div><p>The harvest was meticulously sorted: the black olives that are my children&#8217;s favorite for the table, the green ones for pickling, and the rest for the sacred journey to the olive mill. People stood there in long queues, filled with joy. They chatted proudly about their harvest, their olive varieties, and the quality, comparing them to previous years. No one noticed the time &#8211;&nbsp;it felt like a communal picnic.</p><p>In that moment at the mill, when the first fresh oil emerged, we carefully observed the tradition of drinking a small cup of it straight away, to feel its warmth and the fruit of the earth coursing through our veins.</p><div class="captioned-image-container"><figure><a class="image-link image2 is-viewable-img" target="_blank" href="https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!BIVt!,f_auto,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2F3351e9c9-d816-4285-a1d6-15a0fc633a90_1536x2048.jpeg" data-component-name="Image2ToDOM"><div class="image2-inset"><picture><source type="image/webp" srcset="https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!BIVt!,w_424,c_limit,f_webp,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2F3351e9c9-d816-4285-a1d6-15a0fc633a90_1536x2048.jpeg 424w, 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srcset="https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!BIVt!,w_424,c_limit,f_auto,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2F3351e9c9-d816-4285-a1d6-15a0fc633a90_1536x2048.jpeg 424w, https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!BIVt!,w_848,c_limit,f_auto,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2F3351e9c9-d816-4285-a1d6-15a0fc633a90_1536x2048.jpeg 848w, https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!BIVt!,w_1272,c_limit,f_auto,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2F3351e9c9-d816-4285-a1d6-15a0fc633a90_1536x2048.jpeg 1272w, https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!BIVt!,w_1456,c_limit,f_auto,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2F3351e9c9-d816-4285-a1d6-15a0fc633a90_1536x2048.jpeg 1456w" sizes="100vw" loading="lazy"></picture><div class="image-link-expand"><div class="pencraft pc-display-flex pc-gap-8 pc-reset"><button tabindex="0" type="button" class="pencraft pc-reset pencraft icon-container restack-image"><svg role="img" width="20" height="20" viewBox="0 0 20 20" fill="none" stroke-width="1.5" stroke="var(--color-fg-primary)" stroke-linecap="round" stroke-linejoin="round" xmlns="http://www.w3.org/2000/svg"><g><title></title><path d="M2.53001 7.81595C3.49179 4.73911 6.43281 2.5 9.91173 2.5C13.1684 2.5 15.9537 4.46214 17.0852 7.23684L17.6179 8.67647M17.6179 8.67647L18.5002 4.26471M17.6179 8.67647L13.6473 6.91176M17.4995 12.1841C16.5378 15.2609 13.5967 17.5 10.1178 17.5C6.86118 17.5 4.07589 15.5379 2.94432 12.7632L2.41165 11.3235M2.41165 11.3235L1.5293 15.7353M2.41165 11.3235L6.38224 13.0882"></path></g></svg></button><button tabindex="0" type="button" class="pencraft pc-reset pencraft icon-container view-image"><svg xmlns="http://www.w3.org/2000/svg" width="20" height="20" viewBox="0 0 24 24" fill="none" stroke="currentColor" stroke-width="2" stroke-linecap="round" stroke-linejoin="round" class="lucide lucide-maximize2 lucide-maximize-2"><polyline points="15 3 21 3 21 9"></polyline><polyline points="9 21 3 21 3 15"></polyline><line x1="21" x2="14" y1="3" y2="10"></line><line x1="3" x2="10" y1="21" y2="14"></line></svg></button></div></div></div></a><figcaption class="image-caption"> <em>Zaitun jarjir </em>for those who can&#8217;t wait. Photo: Khulud Shaban</figcaption></figure></div><p>At the peak of the season, the national dish, <em>musakhan</em>, reigned over our tables &#8211; a ritual meal we prepared together. It captures the country&#8217;s history in a single mouthful: warm <em>khubz al-taboon</em> (clay oven bread), thick and uneven with a crisp crust, soft and pillowy inside to soak up the golden olive oil, covered in saut&#233;ed onions and a generous dusting of royal sumac.</p><div class="captioned-image-container"><figure><a class="image-link image2" target="_blank" href="https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!1T6-!,f_auto,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2F8e6b262c-1a2b-4609-b34a-40a5ef0adfd9_960x183.png" data-component-name="Image2ToDOM"><div class="image2-inset"><picture><source type="image/webp" srcset="https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!1T6-!,w_424,c_limit,f_webp,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2F8e6b262c-1a2b-4609-b34a-40a5ef0adfd9_960x183.png 424w, https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!1T6-!,w_848,c_limit,f_webp,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2F8e6b262c-1a2b-4609-b34a-40a5ef0adfd9_960x183.png 848w, https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!1T6-!,w_1272,c_limit,f_webp,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2F8e6b262c-1a2b-4609-b34a-40a5ef0adfd9_960x183.png 1272w, https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!1T6-!,w_1456,c_limit,f_webp,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2F8e6b262c-1a2b-4609-b34a-40a5ef0adfd9_960x183.png 1456w" sizes="100vw"><img src="https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!1T6-!,w_1456,c_limit,f_auto,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2F8e6b262c-1a2b-4609-b34a-40a5ef0adfd9_960x183.png" width="960" height="183" data-attrs="{&quot;src&quot;:&quot;https://substack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com/public/images/8e6b262c-1a2b-4609-b34a-40a5ef0adfd9_960x183.png&quot;,&quot;srcNoWatermark&quot;:null,&quot;fullscreen&quot;:null,&quot;imageSize&quot;:null,&quot;height&quot;:183,&quot;width&quot;:960,&quot;resizeWidth&quot;:null,&quot;bytes&quot;:68778,&quot;alt&quot;:null,&quot;title&quot;:null,&quot;type&quot;:&quot;image/png&quot;,&quot;href&quot;:null,&quot;belowTheFold&quot;:true,&quot;topImage&quot;:false,&quot;internalRedirect&quot;:&quot;https://www.gadworld.se/i/195008639?img=https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2F24b0781f-e4c3-4bf6-8edb-c265053ac46c_960x540.png&quot;,&quot;isProcessing&quot;:false,&quot;align&quot;:null,&quot;offset&quot;:false}" class="sizing-normal" alt="" srcset="https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!1T6-!,w_424,c_limit,f_auto,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2F8e6b262c-1a2b-4609-b34a-40a5ef0adfd9_960x183.png 424w, https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!1T6-!,w_848,c_limit,f_auto,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2F8e6b262c-1a2b-4609-b34a-40a5ef0adfd9_960x183.png 848w, https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!1T6-!,w_1272,c_limit,f_auto,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2F8e6b262c-1a2b-4609-b34a-40a5ef0adfd9_960x183.png 1272w, https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!1T6-!,w_1456,c_limit,f_auto,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2F8e6b262c-1a2b-4609-b34a-40a5ef0adfd9_960x183.png 1456w" sizes="100vw" loading="lazy"></picture><div></div></div></a></figure></div><p>The warm scent from our <em>furn al-taboon</em> (clay oven) drifted across the entire street. There was also the aroma of <em>qurs zaatar</em> (round olive oil breads filled with wild thyme) and <em>qallayat bandora</em> (tomato pan) with garlic and chilli &#8230; Everything drenched in olive oil. In Palestine, we don&#8217;t eat oil just for sustenance, but to draw strength from the land and the resilience of the trees.</p><div class="captioned-image-container"><figure><a class="image-link image2 is-viewable-img" target="_blank" href="https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!28lw!,f_auto,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2F71905790-c4cc-4911-beab-e5c1d2c04dc1_900x1482.jpeg" data-component-name="Image2ToDOM"><div class="image2-inset"><picture><source type="image/webp" srcset="https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!28lw!,w_424,c_limit,f_webp,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2F71905790-c4cc-4911-beab-e5c1d2c04dc1_900x1482.jpeg 424w, https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!28lw!,w_848,c_limit,f_webp,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2F71905790-c4cc-4911-beab-e5c1d2c04dc1_900x1482.jpeg 848w, https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!28lw!,w_1272,c_limit,f_webp,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2F71905790-c4cc-4911-beab-e5c1d2c04dc1_900x1482.jpeg 1272w, https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!28lw!,w_1456,c_limit,f_webp,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2F71905790-c4cc-4911-beab-e5c1d2c04dc1_900x1482.jpeg 1456w" sizes="100vw"><img src="https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!28lw!,w_1456,c_limit,f_auto,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2F71905790-c4cc-4911-beab-e5c1d2c04dc1_900x1482.jpeg" width="900" height="1482" data-attrs="{&quot;src&quot;:&quot;https://substack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com/public/images/71905790-c4cc-4911-beab-e5c1d2c04dc1_900x1482.jpeg&quot;,&quot;srcNoWatermark&quot;:null,&quot;fullscreen&quot;:null,&quot;imageSize&quot;:null,&quot;height&quot;:1482,&quot;width&quot;:900,&quot;resizeWidth&quot;:null,&quot;bytes&quot;:562662,&quot;alt&quot;:null,&quot;title&quot;:null,&quot;type&quot;:&quot;image/jpeg&quot;,&quot;href&quot;:null,&quot;belowTheFold&quot;:true,&quot;topImage&quot;:false,&quot;internalRedirect&quot;:&quot;https://www.gadworld.se/i/194907793?img=https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2F65a624c5-9991-4bd2-98cb-77b156d5c05c_900x1600.jpeg&quot;,&quot;isProcessing&quot;:false,&quot;align&quot;:null,&quot;offset&quot;:false}" class="sizing-normal" alt="" srcset="https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!28lw!,w_424,c_limit,f_auto,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2F71905790-c4cc-4911-beab-e5c1d2c04dc1_900x1482.jpeg 424w, https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!28lw!,w_848,c_limit,f_auto,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2F71905790-c4cc-4911-beab-e5c1d2c04dc1_900x1482.jpeg 848w, https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!28lw!,w_1272,c_limit,f_auto,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2F71905790-c4cc-4911-beab-e5c1d2c04dc1_900x1482.jpeg 1272w, https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!28lw!,w_1456,c_limit,f_auto,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2F71905790-c4cc-4911-beab-e5c1d2c04dc1_900x1482.jpeg 1456w" sizes="100vw" loading="lazy"></picture><div class="image-link-expand"><div class="pencraft pc-display-flex pc-gap-8 pc-reset"><button tabindex="0" type="button" class="pencraft pc-reset pencraft icon-container restack-image"><svg role="img" width="20" height="20" viewBox="0 0 20 20" fill="none" stroke-width="1.5" stroke="var(--color-fg-primary)" stroke-linecap="round" stroke-linejoin="round" xmlns="http://www.w3.org/2000/svg"><g><title></title><path d="M2.53001 7.81595C3.49179 4.73911 6.43281 2.5 9.91173 2.5C13.1684 2.5 15.9537 4.46214 17.0852 7.23684L17.6179 8.67647M17.6179 8.67647L18.5002 4.26471M17.6179 8.67647L13.6473 6.91176M17.4995 12.1841C16.5378 15.2609 13.5967 17.5 10.1178 17.5C6.86118 17.5 4.07589 15.5379 2.94432 12.7632L2.41165 11.3235M2.41165 11.3235L1.5293 15.7353M2.41165 11.3235L6.38224 13.0882"></path></g></svg></button><button tabindex="0" type="button" class="pencraft pc-reset pencraft icon-container view-image"><svg xmlns="http://www.w3.org/2000/svg" width="20" height="20" viewBox="0 0 24 24" fill="none" stroke="currentColor" stroke-width="2" stroke-linecap="round" stroke-linejoin="round" class="lucide lucide-maximize2 lucide-maximize-2"><polyline points="15 3 21 3 21 9"></polyline><polyline points="9 21 3 21 3 15"></polyline><line x1="21" x2="14" y1="3" y2="10"></line><line x1="3" x2="10" y1="21" y2="14"></line></svg></button></div></div></div></a><figcaption class="image-caption">Olive harvest in Salfit, the West Bank, near the Israeli settlement of Ariel. Palestinians are frequently attacked during the harvest season, and trees are destroyed. Photo: Ibrahim Al Rammal</figcaption></figure></div><p>Today, my family has been displaced and scattered in every direction. My uncle, the head of our family, has passed away, and with him, parts of our souls died too. He was the symbol of justice, he distributed everything &#8211; from hazelnuts and eggs to meat and olive oil &#8211; with precision and love.</p><p>Our bayara, which once teemed with life, has been crushed by occupation tanks. They drove over the olive trees we grew up with, leaving behind a devastation that words cannot describe.</p><div class="captioned-image-container"><figure><a class="image-link image2 is-viewable-img" target="_blank" href="https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!NOl2!,f_auto,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2F1023b419-e94d-46a8-bc31-13a8273f74ec_2400x1649.jpeg" data-component-name="Image2ToDOM"><div class="image2-inset"><picture><source type="image/webp" srcset="https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!NOl2!,w_424,c_limit,f_webp,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2F1023b419-e94d-46a8-bc31-13a8273f74ec_2400x1649.jpeg 424w, https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!NOl2!,w_848,c_limit,f_webp,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2F1023b419-e94d-46a8-bc31-13a8273f74ec_2400x1649.jpeg 848w, https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!NOl2!,w_1272,c_limit,f_webp,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2F1023b419-e94d-46a8-bc31-13a8273f74ec_2400x1649.jpeg 1272w, https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!NOl2!,w_1456,c_limit,f_webp,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2F1023b419-e94d-46a8-bc31-13a8273f74ec_2400x1649.jpeg 1456w" sizes="100vw"><img src="https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!NOl2!,w_1456,c_limit,f_auto,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2F1023b419-e94d-46a8-bc31-13a8273f74ec_2400x1649.jpeg" width="1456" height="1000" data-attrs="{&quot;src&quot;:&quot;https://substack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com/public/images/1023b419-e94d-46a8-bc31-13a8273f74ec_2400x1649.jpeg&quot;,&quot;srcNoWatermark&quot;:null,&quot;fullscreen&quot;:null,&quot;imageSize&quot;:null,&quot;height&quot;:1000,&quot;width&quot;:1456,&quot;resizeWidth&quot;:null,&quot;bytes&quot;:915673,&quot;alt&quot;:null,&quot;title&quot;:null,&quot;type&quot;:&quot;image/jpeg&quot;,&quot;href&quot;:null,&quot;belowTheFold&quot;:true,&quot;topImage&quot;:false,&quot;internalRedirect&quot;:&quot;https://www.gadworld.se/i/195008639?img=https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2F1023b419-e94d-46a8-bc31-13a8273f74ec_2400x1649.jpeg&quot;,&quot;isProcessing&quot;:false,&quot;align&quot;:null,&quot;offset&quot;:false}" class="sizing-normal" alt="" srcset="https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!NOl2!,w_424,c_limit,f_auto,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2F1023b419-e94d-46a8-bc31-13a8273f74ec_2400x1649.jpeg 424w, https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!NOl2!,w_848,c_limit,f_auto,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2F1023b419-e94d-46a8-bc31-13a8273f74ec_2400x1649.jpeg 848w, https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!NOl2!,w_1272,c_limit,f_auto,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2F1023b419-e94d-46a8-bc31-13a8273f74ec_2400x1649.jpeg 1272w, https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!NOl2!,w_1456,c_limit,f_auto,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2F1023b419-e94d-46a8-bc31-13a8273f74ec_2400x1649.jpeg 1456w" sizes="100vw" loading="lazy"></picture><div class="image-link-expand"><div class="pencraft pc-display-flex pc-gap-8 pc-reset"><button tabindex="0" type="button" class="pencraft pc-reset pencraft icon-container restack-image"><svg role="img" width="20" height="20" viewBox="0 0 20 20" fill="none" stroke-width="1.5" stroke="var(--color-fg-primary)" stroke-linecap="round" stroke-linejoin="round" xmlns="http://www.w3.org/2000/svg"><g><title></title><path d="M2.53001 7.81595C3.49179 4.73911 6.43281 2.5 9.91173 2.5C13.1684 2.5 15.9537 4.46214 17.0852 7.23684L17.6179 8.67647M17.6179 8.67647L18.5002 4.26471M17.6179 8.67647L13.6473 6.91176M17.4995 12.1841C16.5378 15.2609 13.5967 17.5 10.1178 17.5C6.86118 17.5 4.07589 15.5379 2.94432 12.7632L2.41165 11.3235M2.41165 11.3235L1.5293 15.7353M2.41165 11.3235L6.38224 13.0882"></path></g></svg></button><button tabindex="0" type="button" class="pencraft pc-reset pencraft icon-container view-image"><svg xmlns="http://www.w3.org/2000/svg" width="20" height="20" viewBox="0 0 24 24" fill="none" stroke="currentColor" stroke-width="2" stroke-linecap="round" stroke-linejoin="round" class="lucide lucide-maximize2 lucide-maximize-2"><polyline points="15 3 21 3 21 9"></polyline><polyline points="9 21 3 21 3 15"></polyline><line x1="21" x2="14" y1="3" y2="10"></line><line x1="3" x2="10" y1="21" y2="14"></line></svg></button></div></div></div></a><figcaption class="image-caption">The olive trees are vital to our economy. Photo: Mohammed Al Bardawil</figcaption></figure></div><p>Since the start of the genocide, the harvest season has ground to a halt. Lacking fuel, people have been forced to hack down the remaining branches for firewood, to cook and survive.</p><p>No eager hands come to pick the fruit anymore. Only a few pale trees remain in Gaza &#8211; those that managed to escape both the tanks and the fires of the hungry.</p><p>This devastation is part of a broader &#8220;green genocide&#8221;. According to the Palestinian news agency Wafa, approximately two million olive trees in Gaza have been destroyed since 7 October 2023. </p><div class="captioned-image-container"><figure><a class="image-link image2 is-viewable-img" target="_blank" href="https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!YBa2!,f_auto,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2F312b493d-2092-463c-b7c5-3ebcd48112c3_1200x1600.jpeg" data-component-name="Image2ToDOM"><div class="image2-inset"><picture><source type="image/webp" srcset="https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!YBa2!,w_424,c_limit,f_webp,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2F312b493d-2092-463c-b7c5-3ebcd48112c3_1200x1600.jpeg 424w, 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stroke="currentColor" stroke-width="2" stroke-linecap="round" stroke-linejoin="round" class="lucide lucide-maximize2 lucide-maximize-2"><polyline points="15 3 21 3 21 9"></polyline><polyline points="9 21 3 21 3 15"></polyline><line x1="21" x2="14" y1="3" y2="10"></line><line x1="3" x2="10" y1="21" y2="14"></line></svg></button></div></div></div></a><figcaption class="image-caption">My children love the black olives, which go straight to the table after the harvest. Photo: Khulud Shaban</figcaption></figure></div><p>The attacks on our trees are not random, whether in Gaza or the West Bank. These trees are the backbone of our economy, accounting for 14 per cent of all agricultural income.</p><p>While they attempt to uproot our proof of the right to the land (on the West Bank, continuous cultivation has long served as evidence of land use under Ottoman legal traditions that still influence land rights, and destroying olive trees or preventing farmers from reaching their land is often described as a way to render the soil &#8220;unexploited&#8221; and easier to seize) the Al-Badawi olive tree outside Bethlehem remains, proud and alive, estimated to be between 3,000 and 5,500 years old. </p><p>It is one of the oldest olive trees in the world. The name comes from the legend of Sheikh Al-Badawi, who, according to the story, used to rest beneath it. It is guarded by the local resident Salah Abu Ali, who has been looking after it every day for decades. </p><p>When the branches of the olive trees are sawn off, the roots live on beneath the soil, just as our memories live within us, ready to send out new shoots. This is why the settlers burn the trees, so they may never grow again.</p><p>They are trying to steal our hope as well.</p><div class="subscription-widget-wrap-editor" data-attrs="{&quot;url&quot;:&quot;https://www.gadworld.se/subscribe?&quot;,&quot;text&quot;:&quot;Subscribe&quot;,&quot;language&quot;:&quot;en&quot;}" data-component-name="SubscribeWidgetToDOM"><div class="subscription-widget show-subscribe"><div class="preamble"><p class="cta-caption">Gad World is reader-supported. 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class="pencraft pc-display-flex pc-gap-8 pc-reset"><button tabindex="0" type="button" class="pencraft pc-reset pencraft icon-container restack-image"><svg role="img" width="20" height="20" viewBox="0 0 20 20" fill="none" stroke-width="1.5" stroke="var(--color-fg-primary)" stroke-linecap="round" stroke-linejoin="round" xmlns="http://www.w3.org/2000/svg"><g><title></title><path d="M2.53001 7.81595C3.49179 4.73911 6.43281 2.5 9.91173 2.5C13.1684 2.5 15.9537 4.46214 17.0852 7.23684L17.6179 8.67647M17.6179 8.67647L18.5002 4.26471M17.6179 8.67647L13.6473 6.91176M17.4995 12.1841C16.5378 15.2609 13.5967 17.5 10.1178 17.5C6.86118 17.5 4.07589 15.5379 2.94432 12.7632L2.41165 11.3235M2.41165 11.3235L1.5293 15.7353M2.41165 11.3235L6.38224 13.0882"></path></g></svg></button><button tabindex="0" type="button" class="pencraft pc-reset pencraft icon-container view-image"><svg xmlns="http://www.w3.org/2000/svg" width="20" height="20" viewBox="0 0 24 24" fill="none" stroke="currentColor" stroke-width="2" stroke-linecap="round" stroke-linejoin="round" class="lucide lucide-maximize2 lucide-maximize-2"><polyline points="15 3 21 3 21 9"></polyline><polyline points="9 21 3 21 3 15"></polyline><line x1="21" x2="14" y1="3" y2="10"></line><line x1="3" x2="10" y1="21" y2="14"></line></svg></button></div></div></div></a></figure></div><div class="callout-block" data-callout="true"><h3>Postcards from Gaza</h3><p>Khulud Shaban is a Palestinian journalist, born in Gaza in 1980, writing from exile.</p><p><strong>Life.</strong> This series of personal stories is about how people once lived here &#8211; about the everyday life and the places that carried them. The culture, the food, the laughter, and everything they loved. A society forced to suffer and die. Survivors who remember what was with love and pain.</p><p><strong>Death.</strong> The Hamas-led attack on Israel on October 7, 2023, killed 1,195 people, including 815 civilians and 36 children, according to AFP. Since then, Israel has killed over 72,587 people in Gaza and injured over 172,381, according to Gaza health authorities.</p><p><strong>Children.</strong> Over 65,000 children have been killed or injured, over 56,000 have lost one or both parents, and between 3,000 and 4,000 have undergone one or more amputations, according to UNICEF.</p><p><strong>Displaced.</strong> Approximately 90 percent of Gaza&#8217;s population has been forced to flee, many of them repeatedly, according to the UN.</p><p><strong>Infrastructure.</strong> Large parts of Gaza&#8217;s housing, hospitals, schools, culture, crops, and historical and religious sites have been damaged or destroyed, according to the UN.</p><div class="captioned-image-container"><figure><a class="image-link image2 is-viewable-img" target="_blank" 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Map: OpenStreetMap</figcaption></figure></div></div>]]></content:encoded></item><item><title><![CDATA[Fried eggs with sugar]]></title><description><![CDATA[POSTCARD | GAZA #3]]></description><link>https://www.gadworld.se/p/fried-eggs-with-sugar</link><guid isPermaLink="false">https://www.gadworld.se/p/fried-eggs-with-sugar</guid><dc:creator><![CDATA[Khulud Shaban]]></dc:creator><pubDate>Wed, 03 Jun 2026 12:47:49 GMT</pubDate><enclosure url="https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!PaEB!,f_auto,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2Fb0761d0c-8c91-4b0d-8e85-447f9708cba7_2048x1366.jpeg" length="0" type="image/jpeg"/><content:encoded><![CDATA[<div class="captioned-image-container"><figure><a class="image-link image2 is-viewable-img" target="_blank" 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Photo: Private</figcaption></figure></div><p>In Gaza, the pen has never been just a tool for writing. It has been our daily prayer and our most important battlefield. We are the people who brought illiteracy down to zero before the gates of hell were thrown open. We are the ones who capture light from the deepest shadows of blockade and war.</p><p>In the 1990s, I spent my youth in Al-Rimal, Gaza&#8217;s most elegant district. There, in the UNRWA schools at the heart of the neighborhood, my first dreams were woven.</p><p>The image of my teacher, Kainat, and her legendary authority lives on in me forever. It was she who taught me the art of writing. A strict disciplinarian, she would punish us by making us stand all day or copy our homework tenfold, yet we loved her through our diligence and respect.</p><p>She instilled in me the strentgh that became the foundation of my resilience, a refusal to give up, even as the occupation suffocated our peace with constant raids and a pressure that never lifted, and curfews that began as early as seven in the evening.</p><div class="captioned-image-container"><figure><a class="image-link image2 is-viewable-img" target="_blank" href="https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!kBfh!,f_auto,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2F0779d823-abf6-4930-9f39-0290a31d0626_2048x1366.jpeg" data-component-name="Image2ToDOM"><div class="image2-inset image2-full-screen"><picture><source type="image/webp" 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stroke-width="2" stroke-linecap="round" stroke-linejoin="round" class="lucide lucide-maximize2 lucide-maximize-2"><polyline points="15 3 21 3 21 9"></polyline><polyline points="9 21 3 21 3 15"></polyline><line x1="21" x2="14" y1="3" y2="10"></line><line x1="3" x2="10" y1="21" y2="14"></line></svg></button></div></div></div></a><figcaption class="image-caption">More than 95% of all school buildings in Gaza have been damaged. All universities have been bombed. Photo: Private</figcaption></figure></div><p>I married in 1996, but in 2003, amidst the Second Intifada (2000&#8211;2005), I made a difficult and life-altering decision. I would return to school, even though I was already a mother of three. And I did not stop at secondary education, I pushed forward, completing my university studies alongside my children, all under the weight of a suffocating blockade and a morning rush that never seemed to end.</p><p>Every day at four in the morning, I moved through the darkness of my kitchen in Al-Rimal. Due to the chronic electricity shortages, I learned to find everything by touch, memorising the place of every spoon and jar with my heart rather than my eyes. I never dared to light candles, haunted by the devastating fires that had claimed the lives of so many children across the city.</p><p>But the darkness was not free of mistakes!</p><div class="captioned-image-container"><figure><a class="image-link image2" target="_blank" href="https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!wD-s!,f_auto,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2F735d5c35-6218-4925-9c6c-26400e574697_960x173.png" data-component-name="Image2ToDOM"><div class="image2-inset"><picture><source type="image/webp" srcset="https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!wD-s!,w_424,c_limit,f_webp,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2F735d5c35-6218-4925-9c6c-26400e574697_960x173.png 424w, https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!wD-s!,w_848,c_limit,f_webp,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2F735d5c35-6218-4925-9c6c-26400e574697_960x173.png 848w, https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!wD-s!,w_1272,c_limit,f_webp,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2F735d5c35-6218-4925-9c6c-26400e574697_960x173.png 1272w, https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!wD-s!,w_1456,c_limit,f_webp,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2F735d5c35-6218-4925-9c6c-26400e574697_960x173.png 1456w" sizes="100vw"><img src="https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!wD-s!,w_1456,c_limit,f_auto,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2F735d5c35-6218-4925-9c6c-26400e574697_960x173.png" width="960" height="173" data-attrs="{&quot;src&quot;:&quot;https://substack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com/public/images/735d5c35-6218-4925-9c6c-26400e574697_960x173.png&quot;,&quot;srcNoWatermark&quot;:null,&quot;fullscreen&quot;:null,&quot;imageSize&quot;:null,&quot;height&quot;:173,&quot;width&quot;:960,&quot;resizeWidth&quot;:null,&quot;bytes&quot;:78047,&quot;alt&quot;:null,&quot;title&quot;:null,&quot;type&quot;:&quot;image/png&quot;,&quot;href&quot;:null,&quot;belowTheFold&quot;:true,&quot;topImage&quot;:false,&quot;internalRedirect&quot;:&quot;https://www.gadworld.se/i/196752649?img=https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2F5403cb98-7986-4581-b7f4-2b02f533f261_960x540.png&quot;,&quot;isProcessing&quot;:false,&quot;align&quot;:null,&quot;offset&quot;:false}" class="sizing-normal" alt="" srcset="https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!wD-s!,w_424,c_limit,f_auto,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2F735d5c35-6218-4925-9c6c-26400e574697_960x173.png 424w, https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!wD-s!,w_848,c_limit,f_auto,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2F735d5c35-6218-4925-9c6c-26400e574697_960x173.png 848w, https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!wD-s!,w_1272,c_limit,f_auto,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2F735d5c35-6218-4925-9c6c-26400e574697_960x173.png 1272w, https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!wD-s!,w_1456,c_limit,f_auto,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2F735d5c35-6218-4925-9c6c-26400e574697_960x173.png 1456w" sizes="100vw" loading="lazy"></picture><div></div></div></a></figure></div><p>I remember one morning, at the height of that relentless rush, preparing breakfast. I picked up a jar I thought was salt and sprinkled it generously over the fresh eggs we had collected from our own chickens in the garden. I did not realise I had grabbed sugar instead of salt until the children began to eat. With a mother&#8217;s firmness, inspired by my teacher Kainat, I made them finish their meal. Suddenly, the &#8220;sugar eggs&#8221; turned into a burst of hysterical laughter that filled the entire house.</p><p>Even today, after all these years and everything we have been through, my children remember the taste of those eggs with joy, as if that mistake was the &#8220;sugar&#8221; that helped us endure the bitter days.</p><p class="button-wrapper" data-attrs="{&quot;url&quot;:&quot;https://www.gadworld.se/subscribe?&quot;,&quot;text&quot;:&quot;Subscribe now&quot;,&quot;action&quot;:null,&quot;class&quot;:null}" data-component-name="ButtonCreateButton"><a class="button primary" href="https://www.gadworld.se/subscribe?"><span>Subscribe now</span></a></p><div class="captioned-image-container"><figure><a class="image-link image2 is-viewable-img" target="_blank" href="https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!bHsM!,f_auto,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2F4ea9fc57-3339-44cf-8c4b-ee2991b681e7_2048x1366.jpeg" 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Photo: Private</figcaption></figure></div><p>In the midst of our laughter, the scent of freshly fried Gaza falafel drifted up from the shop beneath our home, and my son Abood ran downstairs to fetch steaming fresh bread. We ate cheese I made myself and drank tea with mint, while I prepared their school sandwiches with zaatar and cucumber.</p><p>Together, we walked through the beautiful streets of Al-Rimal, along the enchanting Lovers&#8217; Street, lined with fragrant juri roses and tall cypress trees that stood guard over our steps. In our eyes, there was a glimmer of defiance against the darkness of the blockade.</p><div class="captioned-image-container"><figure><a class="image-link image2 is-viewable-img" target="_blank" href="https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!QBf2!,f_auto,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2F8a66dc3c-5e36-402b-84dd-2cf4b63a1a7e_1200x1600.jpeg" data-component-name="Image2ToDOM"><div class="image2-inset"><picture><source type="image/webp" srcset="https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!QBf2!,w_424,c_limit,f_webp,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2F8a66dc3c-5e36-402b-84dd-2cf4b63a1a7e_1200x1600.jpeg 424w, https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!QBf2!,w_848,c_limit,f_webp,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2F8a66dc3c-5e36-402b-84dd-2cf4b63a1a7e_1200x1600.jpeg 848w, https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!QBf2!,w_1272,c_limit,f_webp,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2F8a66dc3c-5e36-402b-84dd-2cf4b63a1a7e_1200x1600.jpeg 1272w, https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!QBf2!,w_1456,c_limit,f_webp,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2F8a66dc3c-5e36-402b-84dd-2cf4b63a1a7e_1200x1600.jpeg 1456w" sizes="100vw"><img src="https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!QBf2!,w_1456,c_limit,f_auto,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2F8a66dc3c-5e36-402b-84dd-2cf4b63a1a7e_1200x1600.jpeg" width="1200" height="1600" data-attrs="{&quot;src&quot;:&quot;https://substack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com/public/images/8a66dc3c-5e36-402b-84dd-2cf4b63a1a7e_1200x1600.jpeg&quot;,&quot;srcNoWatermark&quot;:null,&quot;fullscreen&quot;:null,&quot;imageSize&quot;:null,&quot;height&quot;:1600,&quot;width&quot;:1200,&quot;resizeWidth&quot;:null,&quot;bytes&quot;:416736,&quot;alt&quot;:null,&quot;title&quot;:null,&quot;type&quot;:&quot;image/jpeg&quot;,&quot;href&quot;:null,&quot;belowTheFold&quot;:true,&quot;topImage&quot;:false,&quot;internalRedirect&quot;:&quot;https://www.gadworld.se/i/193233018?img=https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2F8a66dc3c-5e36-402b-84dd-2cf4b63a1a7e_1200x1600.jpeg&quot;,&quot;isProcessing&quot;:false,&quot;align&quot;:null,&quot;offset&quot;:false}" class="sizing-normal" alt="" srcset="https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!QBf2!,w_424,c_limit,f_auto,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2F8a66dc3c-5e36-402b-84dd-2cf4b63a1a7e_1200x1600.jpeg 424w, https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!QBf2!,w_848,c_limit,f_auto,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2F8a66dc3c-5e36-402b-84dd-2cf4b63a1a7e_1200x1600.jpeg 848w, https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!QBf2!,w_1272,c_limit,f_auto,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2F8a66dc3c-5e36-402b-84dd-2cf4b63a1a7e_1200x1600.jpeg 1272w, https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!QBf2!,w_1456,c_limit,f_auto,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2F8a66dc3c-5e36-402b-84dd-2cf4b63a1a7e_1200x1600.jpeg 1456w" sizes="100vw" loading="lazy"></picture><div class="image-link-expand"><div class="pencraft pc-display-flex pc-gap-8 pc-reset"><button tabindex="0" type="button" class="pencraft pc-reset pencraft icon-container restack-image"><svg role="img" width="20" height="20" viewBox="0 0 20 20" fill="none" stroke-width="1.5" stroke="var(--color-fg-primary)" stroke-linecap="round" stroke-linejoin="round" xmlns="http://www.w3.org/2000/svg"><g><title></title><path d="M2.53001 7.81595C3.49179 4.73911 6.43281 2.5 9.91173 2.5C13.1684 2.5 15.9537 4.46214 17.0852 7.23684L17.6179 8.67647M17.6179 8.67647L18.5002 4.26471M17.6179 8.67647L13.6473 6.91176M17.4995 12.1841C16.5378 15.2609 13.5967 17.5 10.1178 17.5C6.86118 17.5 4.07589 15.5379 2.94432 12.7632L2.41165 11.3235M2.41165 11.3235L1.5293 15.7353M2.41165 11.3235L6.38224 13.0882"></path></g></svg></button><button tabindex="0" type="button" class="pencraft pc-reset pencraft icon-container view-image"><svg xmlns="http://www.w3.org/2000/svg" width="20" height="20" viewBox="0 0 24 24" fill="none" stroke="currentColor" stroke-width="2" stroke-linecap="round" stroke-linejoin="round" class="lucide lucide-maximize2 lucide-maximize-2"><polyline points="15 3 21 3 21 9"></polyline><polyline points="9 21 3 21 3 15"></polyline><line x1="21" x2="14" y1="3" y2="10"></line><line x1="3" x2="10" y1="21" y2="14"></line></svg></button></div></div></div></a><figcaption class="image-caption">My kitchen after the bombings. Photo: Private</figcaption></figure></div><p>Today, the scene has moved beyond all reason. For two and a half years, a genocide has raged, directly targeting schools and universities, turning temples of knowledge into mass graves for displaced families.</p><p>Gaza&#8217;s children now write their alphabet inside torn tents, beneath a bombardment that never falls silent and the constant whine of drones overhead. No clean water, no food that satisfies hunger, no clothes to shield them from the winter&#8217;s bite or the summer&#8217;s heat. </p><div class="captioned-image-container"><figure><a class="image-link image2 is-viewable-img" target="_blank" href="https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!5jsl!,f_auto,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2F6316e6cc-771e-4442-880c-34a597de1204_2048x1366.jpeg" data-component-name="Image2ToDOM"><div class="image2-inset image2-full-screen"><picture><source type="image/webp" srcset="https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!5jsl!,w_424,c_limit,f_webp,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2F6316e6cc-771e-4442-880c-34a597de1204_2048x1366.jpeg 424w, 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Because of the genocide, schooling for children has been severely disrupted. Photo: Private</figcaption></figure></div><p>And yet, they refuse ignorance.</p><p>The occupation has destroyed Lovers&#8217; Street, uprooted the cypress trees, and reduced the universities to rubble. But they have failed to understand one thing &#8211; Gaza itself is the world&#8217;s largest school. </p><p>We are the fishermen who cannot reach the sea, but we are also the palm trees that refuse to bend.</p><p>The laughter once born from those &#8220;sugar eggs&#8221; in Al-Rimal is the same will, the same resistance, that drives schoolchildren today to study on top of the ruins. </p><p>We believe that knowledge is the one light that the occupation can never extinguish.</p><div class="subscription-widget-wrap-editor" data-attrs="{&quot;url&quot;:&quot;https://www.gadworld.se/subscribe?&quot;,&quot;text&quot;:&quot;Subscribe&quot;,&quot;language&quot;:&quot;en&quot;}" data-component-name="SubscribeWidgetToDOM"><div class="subscription-widget show-subscribe"><div class="preamble"><p class="cta-caption">Gad World &#228;r l&#228;sarfinansierad. 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The culture, the food, the laughter, and everything they loved. A society forced to suffer and die. Survivors who remember what was with love and pain.</p><p><strong>Death.</strong> The Hamas-led attack on Israel on October 7, 2023, killed 1,195 people, including 815 civilians and 36 children, according to AFP. Since then, Israel has killed over 72,587 people in Gaza and injured over 172,381, according to Gaza health authorities.</p><p><strong>Children.</strong> Over 64,000 children have been killed or injured, over 56,000 have lost one or both parents, and between 3,000 and 4,000 have undergone one or more amputations, according to UNICEF.</p><p><strong>Displaced.</strong> Approximately 90 percent of Gaza&#8217;s population has been forced to flee, many of them repeatedly, according to the UN.</p><p><strong>Infrastructure.</strong> Large parts of Gaza&#8217;s housing, hospitals, schools, culture, crops, and historical and religious sites have been damaged or destroyed, according to the UN.</p><div class="captioned-image-container"><figure><a class="image-link image2 is-viewable-img" target="_blank" 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Map: OpenStreetMap</figcaption></figure></div></div>]]></content:encoded></item><item><title><![CDATA[Släta stenar och krossade oliver]]></title><description><![CDATA[VYKORT | GAZA #4]]></description><link>https://www.gadworld.se/p/slata-stenar-och-krossade-oliver</link><guid isPermaLink="false">https://www.gadworld.se/p/slata-stenar-och-krossade-oliver</guid><dc:creator><![CDATA[Khulud Shaban]]></dc:creator><pubDate>Wed, 03 Jun 2026 12:45:48 GMT</pubDate><enclosure url="https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!2A7B!,f_auto,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2F3ea84838-3b96-48f5-b27a-b9582f9798b8_1290x839.jpeg" length="0" type="image/jpeg"/><content:encoded><![CDATA[<div class="captioned-image-container"><figure><a class="image-link image2 is-viewable-img" target="_blank" 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Nu har olivtr&#228;den f&#246;rst&#246;rts i ett &#8220;gr&#246;nt folkmord&#8221;. Foto: Privat</figcaption></figure></div><p>N&#228;r september kom b&#246;rjade den period p&#229; &#229;ret n&#228;r v&#229;ra hj&#228;rtan m&#246;ttes innan v&#229;ra h&#228;nder gjorde det &#8211; det var dags f&#246;r olivsk&#246;rden. I v&#229;r <em>bayara</em> (g&#229;rd och odling) samlades hela familjen, och n&#228;r vi gazabor s&#228;ger familj menar vi alla: barn, syskon, syskonbarn, f&#246;r&#228;ldrar, sv&#228;rf&#246;r&#228;ldrar, morbr&#246;der, kusiner &#8230; </p><p>Vi var ett trettiotal sj&#228;lar, unga och gamla, som bredde ut f&#228;rgstarka dukar p&#229; marken under de silvergr&#246;na tr&#228;den och b&#246;rjade plocka, en v&#228;lsignelse i en atmosf&#228;r av skratt och f&#246;rv&#228;ntansfulla leenden. </p><p>Alla hade sin roll. 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Foto: Privat</figcaption></figure></div><p>De h&#228;r stunderna var fyllda av iver. Vi ville f&#229; st&#228;lla oliverna p&#229; bordet direkt efter plockningen, och vi v&#228;ntade inte, utan satte oss alla p&#229; marken precis d&#228;r vi hade sk&#246;rdat och letade efter sl&#228;ta stenar f&#246;r att f&#246;rsiktigt krossa oliverna i en spontan tradition vi kallar <em>zaitun jarjir</em> (bokstavligen krossade oliver).</p><p>Blixtsnabbt blandade vi v&#229;ra zaitun jarjir med citronskivor, salt, en skv&#228;tt vin&#228;ger och stark r&#246;d Gaza-chili. Det blev en inl&#228;ggning redo att &#228;tas samma dag, n&#228;r v&#229;r l&#228;ngtan var f&#246;r stor f&#246;r att v&#228;nta de l&#229;nga veckor som vanlig fermentering kr&#228;ver.</p><p>Under de h&#228;r sk&#246;rdedagarna t&#228;nde vi en &#246;ppen eld och kokade te som stod och drog med salvia i en kanna som vi tagit med hemifr&#229;n, tillsammans med riktiga teglas, och plockade f&#228;rska apelsiner f&#246;r en paus.</p><p class="button-wrapper" data-attrs="{&quot;url&quot;:&quot;https://www.gadworld.se/subscribe?&quot;,&quot;text&quot;:&quot;Subscribe now&quot;,&quot;action&quot;:null,&quot;class&quot;:null}" data-component-name="ButtonCreateButton"><a class="button primary" href="https://www.gadworld.se/subscribe?"><span>Subscribe now</span></a></p><div class="captioned-image-container"><figure><a class="image-link image2 is-viewable-img" target="_blank" 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Foto: Khulud Shaban</figcaption></figure></div><p>Vid dagens slut &#229;terv&#228;nde fr&#229;n odlingen f&#246;r att finna att barnens mormor och farmor hade f&#246;rberett en underbar m&#229;ltid, som bel&#246;ning f&#246;r dagens arbete. En stor festm&#229;ltid f&#246;r oss alla.</p><p>Sk&#246;rden sorterades noga: de svarta oliverna som &#228;r mina barns favoriter till bordet, de gr&#246;na f&#246;r inl&#228;ggning och resten f&#246;r den heliga resan till presseriet. D&#228;r stod folk i l&#229;nga k&#246;er, fyllda av f&#246;rv&#228;ntan och gl&#228;dje. De sm&#229;pratade stolt om sin sk&#246;rd, sina olivsorter och kvaliteten, och j&#228;mf&#246;rde med tidigare &#229;r. Ingen k&#228;nde av tiden, det var som att vara p&#229; en gemensam picknick.</p><div class="captioned-image-container"><figure><a class="image-link image2 is-viewable-img" target="_blank" href="https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!TipW!,f_auto,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2F3853809c-9db4-4fd0-a72f-03b2d3b4dbca_1536x2048.jpeg" data-component-name="Image2ToDOM"><div class="image2-inset"><picture><source type="image/webp" srcset="https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!TipW!,w_424,c_limit,f_webp,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2F3853809c-9db4-4fd0-a72f-03b2d3b4dbca_1536x2048.jpeg 424w, https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!TipW!,w_848,c_limit,f_webp,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2F3853809c-9db4-4fd0-a72f-03b2d3b4dbca_1536x2048.jpeg 848w, https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!TipW!,w_1272,c_limit,f_webp,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2F3853809c-9db4-4fd0-a72f-03b2d3b4dbca_1536x2048.jpeg 1272w, https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!TipW!,w_1456,c_limit,f_webp,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2F3853809c-9db4-4fd0-a72f-03b2d3b4dbca_1536x2048.jpeg 1456w" sizes="100vw"><img src="https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!TipW!,w_1456,c_limit,f_auto,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2F3853809c-9db4-4fd0-a72f-03b2d3b4dbca_1536x2048.jpeg" width="1456" height="1941" data-attrs="{&quot;src&quot;:&quot;https://substack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com/public/images/3853809c-9db4-4fd0-a72f-03b2d3b4dbca_1536x2048.jpeg&quot;,&quot;srcNoWatermark&quot;:null,&quot;fullscreen&quot;:null,&quot;imageSize&quot;:null,&quot;height&quot;:1941,&quot;width&quot;:1456,&quot;resizeWidth&quot;:null,&quot;bytes&quot;:682781,&quot;alt&quot;:null,&quot;title&quot;:null,&quot;type&quot;:&quot;image/jpeg&quot;,&quot;href&quot;:null,&quot;belowTheFold&quot;:true,&quot;topImage&quot;:false,&quot;internalRedirect&quot;:&quot;https://www.gadworld.se/i/194907793?img=https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2F3853809c-9db4-4fd0-a72f-03b2d3b4dbca_1536x2048.jpeg&quot;,&quot;isProcessing&quot;:false,&quot;align&quot;:null,&quot;offset&quot;:false}" class="sizing-normal" alt="" srcset="https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!TipW!,w_424,c_limit,f_auto,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2F3853809c-9db4-4fd0-a72f-03b2d3b4dbca_1536x2048.jpeg 424w, https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!TipW!,w_848,c_limit,f_auto,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2F3853809c-9db4-4fd0-a72f-03b2d3b4dbca_1536x2048.jpeg 848w, https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!TipW!,w_1272,c_limit,f_auto,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2F3853809c-9db4-4fd0-a72f-03b2d3b4dbca_1536x2048.jpeg 1272w, https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!TipW!,w_1456,c_limit,f_auto,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2F3853809c-9db4-4fd0-a72f-03b2d3b4dbca_1536x2048.jpeg 1456w" sizes="100vw" loading="lazy"></picture><div class="image-link-expand"><div class="pencraft pc-display-flex pc-gap-8 pc-reset"><button tabindex="0" type="button" class="pencraft pc-reset pencraft icon-container restack-image"><svg role="img" width="20" height="20" viewBox="0 0 20 20" fill="none" stroke-width="1.5" stroke="var(--color-fg-primary)" stroke-linecap="round" stroke-linejoin="round" xmlns="http://www.w3.org/2000/svg"><g><title></title><path d="M2.53001 7.81595C3.49179 4.73911 6.43281 2.5 9.91173 2.5C13.1684 2.5 15.9537 4.46214 17.0852 7.23684L17.6179 8.67647M17.6179 8.67647L18.5002 4.26471M17.6179 8.67647L13.6473 6.91176M17.4995 12.1841C16.5378 15.2609 13.5967 17.5 10.1178 17.5C6.86118 17.5 4.07589 15.5379 2.94432 12.7632L2.41165 11.3235M2.41165 11.3235L1.5293 15.7353M2.41165 11.3235L6.38224 13.0882"></path></g></svg></button><button tabindex="0" type="button" class="pencraft pc-reset pencraft icon-container view-image"><svg xmlns="http://www.w3.org/2000/svg" width="20" height="20" viewBox="0 0 24 24" fill="none" stroke="currentColor" stroke-width="2" stroke-linecap="round" stroke-linejoin="round" class="lucide lucide-maximize2 lucide-maximize-2"><polyline points="15 3 21 3 21 9"></polyline><polyline points="9 21 3 21 3 15"></polyline><line x1="21" x2="14" y1="3" y2="10"></line><line x1="3" x2="10" y1="21" y2="14"></line></svg></button></div></div></div></a><figcaption class="image-caption"><em>Zaitun jarjir </em>f&#246;r de ivriga som inte kan v&#228;nta. Foto: Khulud Shaban</figcaption></figure></div><p>I det &#246;gonblicket i presseriet n&#228;r den f&#246;rsta f&#228;rska oljan kom ut, var vi noga med traditionen att dricka en liten kopp av den direkt, f&#246;r att k&#228;nna dess v&#228;rme och hur jordens frukt str&#246;mmade genom v&#229;ra &#229;dror.</p><p>Under s&#228;songens h&#246;jdpunkt regerade nationalr&#228;tten <em>musakhan</em> p&#229; v&#229;ra bord, en rituell r&#228;tt som vi lagade tillsammans. Den sammanfattar landets historia i en enda munsbit: varmt <em>khubz al-taboon</em> (lerugnsbr&#246;d), tjockt och oj&#228;mnt med en krispig yta, mjukt och fylligt inuti f&#246;r att suga upp den rikliga m&#228;ngden gyllene olivolja, t&#228;ckt med stekt l&#246;k och rikligt med kunglig sumak.</p><div class="captioned-image-container"><figure><a class="image-link image2" target="_blank" href="https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!wZ8q!,f_auto,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2Fff3bdbee-7730-4bc6-b66c-c1e4840dd520_960x183.png" data-component-name="Image2ToDOM"><div class="image2-inset"><picture><source type="image/webp" srcset="https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!wZ8q!,w_424,c_limit,f_webp,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2Fff3bdbee-7730-4bc6-b66c-c1e4840dd520_960x183.png 424w, https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!wZ8q!,w_848,c_limit,f_webp,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2Fff3bdbee-7730-4bc6-b66c-c1e4840dd520_960x183.png 848w, https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!wZ8q!,w_1272,c_limit,f_webp,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2Fff3bdbee-7730-4bc6-b66c-c1e4840dd520_960x183.png 1272w, https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!wZ8q!,w_1456,c_limit,f_webp,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2Fff3bdbee-7730-4bc6-b66c-c1e4840dd520_960x183.png 1456w" sizes="100vw"><img src="https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!wZ8q!,w_1456,c_limit,f_auto,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2Fff3bdbee-7730-4bc6-b66c-c1e4840dd520_960x183.png" width="960" height="183" data-attrs="{&quot;src&quot;:&quot;https://substack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com/public/images/ff3bdbee-7730-4bc6-b66c-c1e4840dd520_960x183.png&quot;,&quot;srcNoWatermark&quot;:null,&quot;fullscreen&quot;:null,&quot;imageSize&quot;:null,&quot;height&quot;:183,&quot;width&quot;:960,&quot;resizeWidth&quot;:null,&quot;bytes&quot;:68460,&quot;alt&quot;:null,&quot;title&quot;:null,&quot;type&quot;:&quot;image/png&quot;,&quot;href&quot;:null,&quot;belowTheFold&quot;:true,&quot;topImage&quot;:false,&quot;internalRedirect&quot;:&quot;https://www.gadworld.se/i/196752773?img=https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2F4b4fc038-b0ac-486d-ba68-8ed66c6b1a1e_960x540.png&quot;,&quot;isProcessing&quot;:false,&quot;align&quot;:null,&quot;offset&quot;:false}" class="sizing-normal" alt="" srcset="https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!wZ8q!,w_424,c_limit,f_auto,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2Fff3bdbee-7730-4bc6-b66c-c1e4840dd520_960x183.png 424w, https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!wZ8q!,w_848,c_limit,f_auto,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2Fff3bdbee-7730-4bc6-b66c-c1e4840dd520_960x183.png 848w, https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!wZ8q!,w_1272,c_limit,f_auto,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2Fff3bdbee-7730-4bc6-b66c-c1e4840dd520_960x183.png 1272w, https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!wZ8q!,w_1456,c_limit,f_auto,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2Fff3bdbee-7730-4bc6-b66c-c1e4840dd520_960x183.png 1456w" sizes="100vw" loading="lazy"></picture><div></div></div></a></figure></div><p>Den varma doften fr&#229;n v&#229;r <em>furn al-taboon</em> (lerugnen) spred sig &#246;ver hela gatan. Det doftade ocks&#229; av <em>qurs zaatar</em> (runda olivoljebr&#246;d fyllda med vild timjan) och <em>qallayat bandora</em> (tomatpanna) med vitl&#246;k och chili &#8230; Allt dr&#228;nkt i olivolja. I Palestina &#228;ter vi inte olja bara f&#246;r att bli m&#228;tta, utan f&#246;r att h&#228;mta kraft fr&#229;n landets styrka och tr&#228;dens uth&#229;llighet.</p><div class="captioned-image-container"><figure><a class="image-link image2 is-viewable-img" target="_blank" href="https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!Qess!,f_auto,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2F66126d24-8ed6-4996-a21c-5657b83cd43c_900x1395.jpeg" data-component-name="Image2ToDOM"><div class="image2-inset"><picture><source type="image/webp" srcset="https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!Qess!,w_424,c_limit,f_webp,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2F66126d24-8ed6-4996-a21c-5657b83cd43c_900x1395.jpeg 424w, https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!Qess!,w_848,c_limit,f_webp,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2F66126d24-8ed6-4996-a21c-5657b83cd43c_900x1395.jpeg 848w, https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!Qess!,w_1272,c_limit,f_webp,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2F66126d24-8ed6-4996-a21c-5657b83cd43c_900x1395.jpeg 1272w, https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!Qess!,w_1456,c_limit,f_webp,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2F66126d24-8ed6-4996-a21c-5657b83cd43c_900x1395.jpeg 1456w" sizes="100vw"><img src="https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!Qess!,w_1456,c_limit,f_auto,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2F66126d24-8ed6-4996-a21c-5657b83cd43c_900x1395.jpeg" width="900" height="1395" data-attrs="{&quot;src&quot;:&quot;https://substack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com/public/images/66126d24-8ed6-4996-a21c-5657b83cd43c_900x1395.jpeg&quot;,&quot;srcNoWatermark&quot;:null,&quot;fullscreen&quot;:null,&quot;imageSize&quot;:null,&quot;height&quot;:1395,&quot;width&quot;:900,&quot;resizeWidth&quot;:null,&quot;bytes&quot;:537387,&quot;alt&quot;:null,&quot;title&quot;:null,&quot;type&quot;:&quot;image/jpeg&quot;,&quot;href&quot;:null,&quot;belowTheFold&quot;:true,&quot;topImage&quot;:false,&quot;internalRedirect&quot;:&quot;https://www.gadworld.se/i/194907793?img=https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2Fbbddb03d-1e73-4aa0-ad83-c80eba1a4e14_900x1600.jpeg&quot;,&quot;isProcessing&quot;:false,&quot;align&quot;:null,&quot;offset&quot;:false}" class="sizing-normal" alt="" srcset="https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!Qess!,w_424,c_limit,f_auto,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2F66126d24-8ed6-4996-a21c-5657b83cd43c_900x1395.jpeg 424w, https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!Qess!,w_848,c_limit,f_auto,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2F66126d24-8ed6-4996-a21c-5657b83cd43c_900x1395.jpeg 848w, https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!Qess!,w_1272,c_limit,f_auto,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2F66126d24-8ed6-4996-a21c-5657b83cd43c_900x1395.jpeg 1272w, https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!Qess!,w_1456,c_limit,f_auto,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2F66126d24-8ed6-4996-a21c-5657b83cd43c_900x1395.jpeg 1456w" sizes="100vw" loading="lazy"></picture><div class="image-link-expand"><div class="pencraft pc-display-flex pc-gap-8 pc-reset"><button tabindex="0" type="button" class="pencraft pc-reset pencraft icon-container restack-image"><svg role="img" width="20" height="20" viewBox="0 0 20 20" fill="none" stroke-width="1.5" stroke="var(--color-fg-primary)" stroke-linecap="round" stroke-linejoin="round" xmlns="http://www.w3.org/2000/svg"><g><title></title><path d="M2.53001 7.81595C3.49179 4.73911 6.43281 2.5 9.91173 2.5C13.1684 2.5 15.9537 4.46214 17.0852 7.23684L17.6179 8.67647M17.6179 8.67647L18.5002 4.26471M17.6179 8.67647L13.6473 6.91176M17.4995 12.1841C16.5378 15.2609 13.5967 17.5 10.1178 17.5C6.86118 17.5 4.07589 15.5379 2.94432 12.7632L2.41165 11.3235M2.41165 11.3235L1.5293 15.7353M2.41165 11.3235L6.38224 13.0882"></path></g></svg></button><button tabindex="0" type="button" class="pencraft pc-reset pencraft icon-container view-image"><svg xmlns="http://www.w3.org/2000/svg" width="20" height="20" viewBox="0 0 24 24" fill="none" stroke="currentColor" stroke-width="2" stroke-linecap="round" stroke-linejoin="round" class="lucide lucide-maximize2 lucide-maximize-2"><polyline points="15 3 21 3 21 9"></polyline><polyline points="9 21 3 21 3 15"></polyline><line x1="21" x2="14" y1="3" y2="10"></line><line x1="3" x2="10" y1="21" y2="14"></line></svg></button></div></div></div></a><figcaption class="image-caption">Olivsk&#246;rd i Salfit p&#229; V&#228;stbanken, n&#228;ra den israeliska bos&#228;ttningen Ariel. Palestinier attackeras ofta under sk&#246;rdes&#228;songen och tr&#228;d f&#246;rst&#246;rs. Foto: Ibrahim Al Rammal</figcaption></figure></div><p>I dag har min familj f&#246;rdrivits och splittrats &#229;t alla h&#229;ll. Min morbror, v&#229;r familjs &#246;verhuvud, har g&#229;tt bort och med honom dog delar av v&#229;ra sj&#228;lar. Han var symbolen f&#246;r r&#228;ttvisa. Han f&#246;rdelade allt, fr&#229;n hasseln&#246;tter och &#228;gg till k&#246;tt och olivolja, med exakthet och k&#228;rlek.</p><p>V&#229;r bayara som en g&#229;ng sj&#246;d av liv har krossats av ockupationens stridsvagnar. De k&#246;rde &#246;ver olivtr&#228;den, som vi v&#228;xte upp med, och l&#228;mnade efter sig en f&#246;r&#246;delse som ord inte kan beskriva.</p><div class="captioned-image-container"><figure><a class="image-link image2 is-viewable-img" target="_blank" href="https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!4czj!,f_auto,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2Fb28afd71-79e5-401e-b1c6-31930bbc198b_2400x1649.jpeg" data-component-name="Image2ToDOM"><div class="image2-inset"><picture><source type="image/webp" srcset="https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!4czj!,w_424,c_limit,f_webp,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2Fb28afd71-79e5-401e-b1c6-31930bbc198b_2400x1649.jpeg 424w, 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class="image-link-expand"><div class="pencraft pc-display-flex pc-gap-8 pc-reset"><button tabindex="0" type="button" class="pencraft pc-reset pencraft icon-container restack-image"><svg role="img" width="20" height="20" viewBox="0 0 20 20" fill="none" stroke-width="1.5" stroke="var(--color-fg-primary)" stroke-linecap="round" stroke-linejoin="round" xmlns="http://www.w3.org/2000/svg"><g><title></title><path d="M2.53001 7.81595C3.49179 4.73911 6.43281 2.5 9.91173 2.5C13.1684 2.5 15.9537 4.46214 17.0852 7.23684L17.6179 8.67647M17.6179 8.67647L18.5002 4.26471M17.6179 8.67647L13.6473 6.91176M17.4995 12.1841C16.5378 15.2609 13.5967 17.5 10.1178 17.5C6.86118 17.5 4.07589 15.5379 2.94432 12.7632L2.41165 11.3235M2.41165 11.3235L1.5293 15.7353M2.41165 11.3235L6.38224 13.0882"></path></g></svg></button><button tabindex="0" type="button" class="pencraft pc-reset pencraft icon-container view-image"><svg xmlns="http://www.w3.org/2000/svg" width="20" height="20" viewBox="0 0 24 24" fill="none" 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Foto: Mohammed Al Bardawil</figcaption></figure></div><p>Sedan folkmordets b&#246;rjan har sk&#246;rdes&#228;songen stannat av helt. I brist p&#229; br&#228;nsle har m&#228;nniskorna tvingats hugga ner de kvarvarande grenarna f&#246;r att anv&#228;nda som ved, bara f&#246;r att kunna laga mat och &#246;verleva.</p><p>Inga ivriga h&#228;nder kommer l&#228;ngre f&#246;r att plocka frukter. Bara ett f&#229;tal bleka tr&#228;d finns kvar i Gaza, de som lyckats undkomma b&#229;de stridsvagnar och de hungrigas eldst&#228;der.</p><p>Denna f&#246;r&#246;delse &#228;r en del av ett st&#246;rre &#8220;gr&#246;nt folkmord&#8221;. Enligt den palestinska nyhetsbyr&#229;n Wafa har cirka tv&#229; miljoner olivtr&#228;d i Gaza f&#246;rst&#246;rts sedan den 7 oktober 2023. </p><p>Attackerna mot v&#229;ra tr&#228;d &#228;r inte slumpm&#228;ssiga, vare sig i Gaza eller p&#229; V&#228;stbanken. Tr&#228;den &#228;r ryggraden i v&#229;r ekonomi och st&#229;r f&#246;r 14 procent av jordbruksinkomsterna.</p><div class="captioned-image-container"><figure><a class="image-link image2 is-viewable-img" target="_blank" href="https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!YBa2!,f_auto,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2F312b493d-2092-463c-b7c5-3ebcd48112c3_1200x1600.jpeg" data-component-name="Image2ToDOM"><div class="image2-inset"><picture><source type="image/webp" srcset="https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!YBa2!,w_424,c_limit,f_webp,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2F312b493d-2092-463c-b7c5-3ebcd48112c3_1200x1600.jpeg 424w, https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!YBa2!,w_848,c_limit,f_webp,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2F312b493d-2092-463c-b7c5-3ebcd48112c3_1200x1600.jpeg 848w, https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!YBa2!,w_1272,c_limit,f_webp,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2F312b493d-2092-463c-b7c5-3ebcd48112c3_1200x1600.jpeg 1272w, https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!YBa2!,w_1456,c_limit,f_webp,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2F312b493d-2092-463c-b7c5-3ebcd48112c3_1200x1600.jpeg 1456w" sizes="100vw"><img src="https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!YBa2!,w_1456,c_limit,f_auto,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2F312b493d-2092-463c-b7c5-3ebcd48112c3_1200x1600.jpeg" width="1200" height="1600" data-attrs="{&quot;src&quot;:&quot;https://substack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com/public/images/312b493d-2092-463c-b7c5-3ebcd48112c3_1200x1600.jpeg&quot;,&quot;srcNoWatermark&quot;:null,&quot;fullscreen&quot;:null,&quot;imageSize&quot;:null,&quot;height&quot;:1600,&quot;width&quot;:1200,&quot;resizeWidth&quot;:null,&quot;bytes&quot;:194944,&quot;alt&quot;:null,&quot;title&quot;:null,&quot;type&quot;:&quot;image/jpeg&quot;,&quot;href&quot;:null,&quot;belowTheFold&quot;:true,&quot;topImage&quot;:false,&quot;internalRedirect&quot;:&quot;https://www.gadworld.se/i/194907793?img=https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2F312b493d-2092-463c-b7c5-3ebcd48112c3_1200x1600.jpeg&quot;,&quot;isProcessing&quot;:false,&quot;align&quot;:null,&quot;offset&quot;:false}" class="sizing-normal" alt="" srcset="https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!YBa2!,w_424,c_limit,f_auto,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2F312b493d-2092-463c-b7c5-3ebcd48112c3_1200x1600.jpeg 424w, https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!YBa2!,w_848,c_limit,f_auto,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2F312b493d-2092-463c-b7c5-3ebcd48112c3_1200x1600.jpeg 848w, https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!YBa2!,w_1272,c_limit,f_auto,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2F312b493d-2092-463c-b7c5-3ebcd48112c3_1200x1600.jpeg 1272w, https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!YBa2!,w_1456,c_limit,f_auto,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2F312b493d-2092-463c-b7c5-3ebcd48112c3_1200x1600.jpeg 1456w" sizes="100vw" loading="lazy"></picture><div class="image-link-expand"><div class="pencraft pc-display-flex pc-gap-8 pc-reset"><button tabindex="0" type="button" class="pencraft pc-reset pencraft icon-container restack-image"><svg role="img" width="20" height="20" viewBox="0 0 20 20" fill="none" stroke-width="1.5" stroke="var(--color-fg-primary)" stroke-linecap="round" stroke-linejoin="round" xmlns="http://www.w3.org/2000/svg"><g><title></title><path d="M2.53001 7.81595C3.49179 4.73911 6.43281 2.5 9.91173 2.5C13.1684 2.5 15.9537 4.46214 17.0852 7.23684L17.6179 8.67647M17.6179 8.67647L18.5002 4.26471M17.6179 8.67647L13.6473 6.91176M17.4995 12.1841C16.5378 15.2609 13.5967 17.5 10.1178 17.5C6.86118 17.5 4.07589 15.5379 2.94432 12.7632L2.41165 11.3235M2.41165 11.3235L1.5293 15.7353M2.41165 11.3235L6.38224 13.0882"></path></g></svg></button><button tabindex="0" type="button" class="pencraft pc-reset pencraft icon-container view-image"><svg xmlns="http://www.w3.org/2000/svg" width="20" height="20" viewBox="0 0 24 24" fill="none" stroke="currentColor" stroke-width="2" stroke-linecap="round" stroke-linejoin="round" class="lucide lucide-maximize2 lucide-maximize-2"><polyline points="15 3 21 3 21 9"></polyline><polyline points="9 21 3 21 3 15"></polyline><line x1="21" x2="14" y1="3" y2="10"></line><line x1="3" x2="10" y1="21" y2="14"></line></svg></button></div></div></div></a><figcaption class="image-caption">Mina barn &#228;lskar de svarta oliverna, som g&#229;r direkt till bordet efter sk&#246;rd. Foto: Khulud Shaban</figcaption></figure></div><p>Medan de f&#246;rs&#246;ker rycka upp v&#229;rt bevis p&#229; r&#228;tten till landet (p&#229; V&#228;stbanken har kontinuerlig odling l&#228;nge kunnat anv&#228;ndas som bevis p&#229; brukande enligt ottomansk lagtradition som &#228;nnu p&#229;verkar markr&#228;tten, och att f&#246;rst&#246;ra olivtr&#228;d eller hindra b&#246;nder fr&#229;n att n&#229; sin mark har ofta beskrivits som ett s&#228;tt att g&#246;ra jorden &#8221;outnyttjad&#8221; och l&#228;ttare att ta &#246;ver) st&#229;r olivtr&#228;det <em>Al-Badawi</em> utanf&#246;r Betlehem kvar, stolt och levande, uppskattat till omkring 3 000 och 5 500 &#229;r gammalt. </p><p>Det &#228;r ett av v&#228;rldens &#228;ldsta olivtr&#228;d. Namnet kommer fr&#229;n legenden om shejk Al-Badawi, som enligt ber&#228;ttelsen brukade vila under det. Det vaktas i dag av Salah Abu Ali, som bor i byn och har sett till det varje dag i decennier. </p><p>N&#228;r ett olivtr&#228;ds grenar s&#229;gas av lever r&#246;tterna kvar under jorden, precis som v&#229;ra minnen g&#246;r i oss, redo att skjuta nya skott. Det &#228;r d&#228;rf&#246;r bos&#228;ttarna<strong> </strong>br&#228;nner tr&#228;den s&#229; att de aldrig ska v&#228;xa igen.</p><p>De f&#246;rs&#246;ker stj&#228;la &#228;ven v&#229;rt hopp.</p><div class="captioned-image-container"><figure><a class="image-link image2 is-viewable-img" target="_blank" href="https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!Om5X!,f_auto,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2Fbb85618b-55a3-495f-b119-0a504e2a00b2_1600x1080.png" data-component-name="Image2ToDOM"><div class="image2-inset"><picture><source type="image/webp" srcset="https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!Om5X!,w_424,c_limit,f_webp,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2Fbb85618b-55a3-495f-b119-0a504e2a00b2_1600x1080.png 424w, 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stroke-width="2" stroke-linecap="round" stroke-linejoin="round" class="lucide lucide-maximize2 lucide-maximize-2"><polyline points="15 3 21 3 21 9"></polyline><polyline points="9 21 3 21 3 15"></polyline><line x1="21" x2="14" y1="3" y2="10"></line><line x1="3" x2="10" y1="21" y2="14"></line></svg></button></div></div></div></a></figure></div><div class="callout-block" data-callout="true"><h3>Vykort fr&#229;n Gaza</h3><p><strong>Khulud Shaban</strong> &#228;r en palestinsk journalist, f&#246;dd i Gaza 1980, som skriver fr&#229;n exil. </p><p><strong>Liv. </strong>Denna serie personliga ber&#228;ttelser handlar om hur m&#228;nniskorna en g&#229;ng levde h&#228;r &#8211; om vardagen och platserna som bar deras liv. Kulturen, maten, skratten och allt de &#228;lskade. Ett samh&#228;lle som tvingats lida och d&#246;. &#214;verlevare som minns det som var med k&#228;rlek och sm&#228;rta.</p><p><strong>D&#246;d.</strong> Den Hamasledda attacken mot Israel den 7 oktober 2023 d&#246;dade 1 195 m&#228;nniskor, varav 815 civila och 36 barn, enligt AFP. Sedan dess har Israel d&#246;dat &#246;ver 72 587 m&#228;nniskor i Gaza och skadat &#246;ver 172 381, enligt Gazas h&#228;lsomyndigheter.</p><p><strong>Barn.</strong> &#214;ver 64 000 barn har d&#246;dats eller skadats, &#246;ver 56 000 har f&#246;rlorat en eller b&#229;da sina f&#246;r&#228;ldrar, och mellan 3 000 och 4 000 har genomg&#229;tt en eller flera amputationer, enligt Unicef.</p><p><strong>F&#246;rdrivna.</strong> Omkring 90 procent av Gazas befolkning har tvingats fly, m&#229;nga av dem upprepade g&#229;nger, enligt FN<strong>.</strong></p><p><strong>Infrastruktur.</strong> Stora delar av Gazas bost&#228;der, sjukhus, skolor, kultur, odlingar, historiska och religi&#246;sa platser har skadats eller f&#246;rst&#246;rts, enligt FN.</p><div class="captioned-image-container"><figure><a class="image-link image2 is-viewable-img" target="_blank" href="https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!vqPq!,f_auto,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2Ff451047e-8317-409e-b45c-3e6d8b7f890e_960x540.png" data-component-name="Image2ToDOM"><div class="image2-inset"><picture><source type="image/webp" srcset="https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!vqPq!,w_424,c_limit,f_webp,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2Ff451047e-8317-409e-b45c-3e6d8b7f890e_960x540.png 424w, https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!vqPq!,w_848,c_limit,f_webp,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2Ff451047e-8317-409e-b45c-3e6d8b7f890e_960x540.png 848w, https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!vqPq!,w_1272,c_limit,f_webp,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2Ff451047e-8317-409e-b45c-3e6d8b7f890e_960x540.png 1272w, 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Karta: OpenStreetMap</figcaption></figure></div></div>]]></content:encoded></item><item><title><![CDATA[Stekta ägg med socker]]></title><description><![CDATA[VYKORT | GAZA #3]]></description><link>https://www.gadworld.se/p/stekta-agg-med-socker</link><guid isPermaLink="false">https://www.gadworld.se/p/stekta-agg-med-socker</guid><dc:creator><![CDATA[Khulud Shaban]]></dc:creator><pubDate>Wed, 03 Jun 2026 12:43:34 GMT</pubDate><enclosure url="https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!PaEB!,f_auto,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2Fb0761d0c-8c91-4b0d-8e85-447f9708cba7_2048x1366.jpeg" length="0" type="image/jpeg"/><content:encoded><![CDATA[<div class="captioned-image-container"><figure><a class="image-link image2 is-viewable-img" target="_blank" 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Foto: Privat</figcaption></figure></div><p>I Gaza har pennan aldrig bara varit ett verktyg f&#246;r att skriva. Den har varit v&#229;r dagliga b&#246;n och v&#229;r viktigaste strid. Vi &#228;r folket som s&#229;g till att analfabetismen var noll innan helvetets portar slogs upp. Vi &#228;r de som f&#229;ngar ljuset ur blockadens och krigens djupaste m&#246;rker.</p><p>Under 1990-talet tillbringade jag mina unga &#229;r i Gazas mest eleganta kvarter, Al-Rimal. D&#228;r, i UNRWA-skolorna i hj&#228;rtat av omr&#229;det, v&#228;vdes mina f&#246;rsta dr&#246;mmar. </p><p>Bilden av min l&#228;rare, Kainat, och hennes legendariska auktoritet lever kvar i mig f&#246;r alltid. Det var hon som l&#228;rde mig att skriva vackert. Hon var v&#228;ldigt str&#228;ng och straffade oss genom att l&#229;ta oss st&#229; upp en hel dag eller skriva av l&#228;xan tio g&#229;nger, men vi &#228;lskade henne genom v&#229;r flit och respekt. </p><p>Den styrka hon fostrade mig med lade grunden till att jag aldrig gav upp, trots att ockupationen kv&#228;vde v&#229;r frid med st&#228;ndiga razzior. Ett tryck som aldrig l&#228;ttade och uteg&#229;ngsf&#246;rbud som b&#246;rjade redan klockan sju p&#229; kv&#228;llen.</p><p class="button-wrapper" data-attrs="{&quot;url&quot;:&quot;https://www.gadworld.se/subscribe?&quot;,&quot;text&quot;:&quot;Subscribe now&quot;,&quot;action&quot;:null,&quot;class&quot;:null}" data-component-name="ButtonCreateButton"><a class="button primary" href="https://www.gadworld.se/subscribe?"><span>Subscribe now</span></a></p><div class="captioned-image-container"><figure><a class="image-link image2 is-viewable-img" target="_blank" href="https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!kBfh!,f_auto,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2F0779d823-abf6-4930-9f39-0290a31d0626_2048x1366.jpeg" data-component-name="Image2ToDOM"><div class="image2-inset image2-full-screen"><picture><source type="image/webp" 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Samtliga universitet har bombats. Foto: Privat</figcaption></figure></div><p>Jag gifte mig 1996, men &#229;r 2003, mitt under den andra intifadan (2000&#8211;2005), fattade jag ett sv&#229;rt och livsavg&#246;rande beslut. Trots att jag redan var trebarnsmamma best&#228;mde jag mig f&#246;r att &#229;terv&#228;nda till skolb&#228;nken. Och jag n&#246;jde mig inte med gymnasieexamen, jag fullf&#246;ljde &#228;ven mina universitetsstudier tillsammans med mina barn, allt mitt under en kv&#228;vande blockad och en morgonstress som aldrig tog slut.</p><p>Klockan fyra p&#229; morgonen r&#246;rde jag mig i mitt m&#246;rka k&#246;k i Al-Rimal. P&#229; grund av elbristen l&#228;rde jag mig att hitta allt genom att k&#228;nna mig fram. Jag memorerade var varje sked och burk stod med hj&#228;rtat snarare &#228;n med &#246;gonen. Levande ljus v&#229;gade jag inte t&#228;nda av r&#228;dsla f&#246;r de fruktansv&#228;rda br&#228;nder som sk&#246;rdat s&#229; m&#229;nga barns liv i staden.</p><p>Men m&#246;rkret var inte fritt fr&#229;n misstag! </p><div class="captioned-image-container"><figure><a class="image-link image2" target="_blank" href="https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!biQe!,f_auto,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2Fe64cec64-4f29-431d-a5ef-ec6d0b0ae4e9_960x184.png" data-component-name="Image2ToDOM"><div class="image2-inset"><picture><source type="image/webp" srcset="https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!biQe!,w_424,c_limit,f_webp,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2Fe64cec64-4f29-431d-a5ef-ec6d0b0ae4e9_960x184.png 424w, https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!biQe!,w_848,c_limit,f_webp,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2Fe64cec64-4f29-431d-a5ef-ec6d0b0ae4e9_960x184.png 848w, https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!biQe!,w_1272,c_limit,f_webp,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2Fe64cec64-4f29-431d-a5ef-ec6d0b0ae4e9_960x184.png 1272w, https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!biQe!,w_1456,c_limit,f_webp,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2Fe64cec64-4f29-431d-a5ef-ec6d0b0ae4e9_960x184.png 1456w" sizes="100vw"><img src="https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!biQe!,w_1456,c_limit,f_auto,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2Fe64cec64-4f29-431d-a5ef-ec6d0b0ae4e9_960x184.png" width="960" height="184" data-attrs="{&quot;src&quot;:&quot;https://substack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com/public/images/e64cec64-4f29-431d-a5ef-ec6d0b0ae4e9_960x184.png&quot;,&quot;srcNoWatermark&quot;:null,&quot;fullscreen&quot;:null,&quot;imageSize&quot;:null,&quot;height&quot;:184,&quot;width&quot;:960,&quot;resizeWidth&quot;:null,&quot;bytes&quot;:76833,&quot;alt&quot;:null,&quot;title&quot;:null,&quot;type&quot;:&quot;image/png&quot;,&quot;href&quot;:null,&quot;belowTheFold&quot;:true,&quot;topImage&quot;:false,&quot;internalRedirect&quot;:&quot;https://www.gadworld.se/i/196752687?img=https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2Fd1bca1ea-3143-47fd-87e9-83098f0fa8f4_960x540.png&quot;,&quot;isProcessing&quot;:false,&quot;align&quot;:null,&quot;offset&quot;:false}" class="sizing-normal" alt="" srcset="https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!biQe!,w_424,c_limit,f_auto,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2Fe64cec64-4f29-431d-a5ef-ec6d0b0ae4e9_960x184.png 424w, https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!biQe!,w_848,c_limit,f_auto,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2Fe64cec64-4f29-431d-a5ef-ec6d0b0ae4e9_960x184.png 848w, https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!biQe!,w_1272,c_limit,f_auto,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2Fe64cec64-4f29-431d-a5ef-ec6d0b0ae4e9_960x184.png 1272w, https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!biQe!,w_1456,c_limit,f_auto,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2Fe64cec64-4f29-431d-a5ef-ec6d0b0ae4e9_960x184.png 1456w" sizes="100vw" loading="lazy"></picture><div></div></div></a></figure></div><p></p><p>Jag minns en dag n&#228;r jag i min djupaste morgonstress f&#246;rberedde frukost. Jag tog en burk jag trodde var salt och str&#246;dde den gener&#246;st &#246;ver de f&#228;rska &#228;ggen vi plockat fr&#229;n v&#229;ra egna h&#246;ns i tr&#228;dg&#229;rden. Jag ins&#229;g inte att jag tagit socker ist&#228;llet f&#246;r salt f&#246;rr&#228;n barnen b&#246;rjade &#228;ta. Med en modersstr&#228;nghet inspirerad av min l&#228;rare Kainat tvingade jag dem att &#228;ta upp, och &#8220;socker&#228;ggen&#8221; f&#246;rvandlades pl&#246;tsligt till ett hysteriskt skrattanfall som fyllde hela huset. </p><p>&#196;n i dag, trots alla &#229;r och allt vi har g&#229;tt igenom, minns mina barn smaken av de &#228;ggen med gl&#228;dje, som om det misstaget var det &#8220;socker&#8221; som hj&#228;lpte oss att uth&#228;rda de bittra dagarna.</p><div class="captioned-image-container"><figure><a class="image-link image2 is-viewable-img" target="_blank" href="https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!bHsM!,f_auto,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2F4ea9fc57-3339-44cf-8c4b-ee2991b681e7_2048x1366.jpeg" data-component-name="Image2ToDOM"><div class="image2-inset image2-full-screen"><picture><source type="image/webp" 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Foto: Privat</figcaption></figure></div><p>Mitt i v&#229;ra skratt tr&#228;ngde doften av nystekt Gaza-falafel in fr&#229;n butiken under v&#229;rt hus och min son Abood sprang ner f&#246;r att h&#228;mta rykande f&#228;rska br&#246;d. Vi &#229;t ost som jag g&#246;r sj&#228;lv och drack te med mynta. Jag f&#246;rberedde deras skolmackor med zaatar och gurka. </p><p>Vi gick genom de vackra gatorna i Al-Rimal, l&#228;ngs den f&#246;rtrollande <em>De &#228;lskandes gata,</em> kantad av doftande jurirosor och h&#246;ga cypresser som vaktade v&#229;ra steg. I v&#229;ra &#246;gon fanns en glimt av trots mot blockadens m&#246;rker.</p><div class="captioned-image-container"><figure><a class="image-link image2 is-viewable-img" target="_blank" href="https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!QBf2!,f_auto,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2F8a66dc3c-5e36-402b-84dd-2cf4b63a1a7e_1200x1600.jpeg" data-component-name="Image2ToDOM"><div class="image2-inset"><picture><source type="image/webp" srcset="https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!QBf2!,w_424,c_limit,f_webp,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2F8a66dc3c-5e36-402b-84dd-2cf4b63a1a7e_1200x1600.jpeg 424w, https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!QBf2!,w_848,c_limit,f_webp,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2F8a66dc3c-5e36-402b-84dd-2cf4b63a1a7e_1200x1600.jpeg 848w, https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!QBf2!,w_1272,c_limit,f_webp,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2F8a66dc3c-5e36-402b-84dd-2cf4b63a1a7e_1200x1600.jpeg 1272w, https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!QBf2!,w_1456,c_limit,f_webp,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2F8a66dc3c-5e36-402b-84dd-2cf4b63a1a7e_1200x1600.jpeg 1456w" sizes="100vw"><img src="https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!QBf2!,w_1456,c_limit,f_auto,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2F8a66dc3c-5e36-402b-84dd-2cf4b63a1a7e_1200x1600.jpeg" width="1200" height="1600" data-attrs="{&quot;src&quot;:&quot;https://substack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com/public/images/8a66dc3c-5e36-402b-84dd-2cf4b63a1a7e_1200x1600.jpeg&quot;,&quot;srcNoWatermark&quot;:null,&quot;fullscreen&quot;:null,&quot;imageSize&quot;:null,&quot;height&quot;:1600,&quot;width&quot;:1200,&quot;resizeWidth&quot;:null,&quot;bytes&quot;:416736,&quot;alt&quot;:null,&quot;title&quot;:null,&quot;type&quot;:&quot;image/jpeg&quot;,&quot;href&quot;:null,&quot;belowTheFold&quot;:true,&quot;topImage&quot;:false,&quot;internalRedirect&quot;:&quot;https://www.gadworld.se/i/193233018?img=https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2F8a66dc3c-5e36-402b-84dd-2cf4b63a1a7e_1200x1600.jpeg&quot;,&quot;isProcessing&quot;:false,&quot;align&quot;:null,&quot;offset&quot;:false}" class="sizing-normal" alt="" srcset="https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!QBf2!,w_424,c_limit,f_auto,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2F8a66dc3c-5e36-402b-84dd-2cf4b63a1a7e_1200x1600.jpeg 424w, https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!QBf2!,w_848,c_limit,f_auto,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2F8a66dc3c-5e36-402b-84dd-2cf4b63a1a7e_1200x1600.jpeg 848w, https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!QBf2!,w_1272,c_limit,f_auto,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2F8a66dc3c-5e36-402b-84dd-2cf4b63a1a7e_1200x1600.jpeg 1272w, https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!QBf2!,w_1456,c_limit,f_auto,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2F8a66dc3c-5e36-402b-84dd-2cf4b63a1a7e_1200x1600.jpeg 1456w" sizes="100vw" loading="lazy"></picture><div class="image-link-expand"><div class="pencraft pc-display-flex pc-gap-8 pc-reset"><button tabindex="0" type="button" class="pencraft pc-reset pencraft icon-container restack-image"><svg role="img" width="20" height="20" viewBox="0 0 20 20" fill="none" stroke-width="1.5" stroke="var(--color-fg-primary)" stroke-linecap="round" stroke-linejoin="round" xmlns="http://www.w3.org/2000/svg"><g><title></title><path d="M2.53001 7.81595C3.49179 4.73911 6.43281 2.5 9.91173 2.5C13.1684 2.5 15.9537 4.46214 17.0852 7.23684L17.6179 8.67647M17.6179 8.67647L18.5002 4.26471M17.6179 8.67647L13.6473 6.91176M17.4995 12.1841C16.5378 15.2609 13.5967 17.5 10.1178 17.5C6.86118 17.5 4.07589 15.5379 2.94432 12.7632L2.41165 11.3235M2.41165 11.3235L1.5293 15.7353M2.41165 11.3235L6.38224 13.0882"></path></g></svg></button><button tabindex="0" type="button" class="pencraft pc-reset pencraft icon-container view-image"><svg xmlns="http://www.w3.org/2000/svg" width="20" height="20" viewBox="0 0 24 24" fill="none" stroke="currentColor" stroke-width="2" stroke-linecap="round" stroke-linejoin="round" class="lucide lucide-maximize2 lucide-maximize-2"><polyline points="15 3 21 3 21 9"></polyline><polyline points="9 21 3 21 3 15"></polyline><line x1="21" x2="14" y1="3" y2="10"></line><line x1="3" x2="10" y1="21" y2="14"></line></svg></button></div></div></div></a><figcaption class="image-caption">Mitt k&#246;k efter bombningarna. 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P&#229; grund av folkmordet blev det ett l&#229;ngt avbrott f&#246;r skolbarnen. Foto: Privat</figcaption></figure></div><p>Men de v&#228;grar okunnighet.</p><p>Ockupationen har f&#246;rst&#246;rt De &#228;lskandes gata, ryckt upp cypresserna och bombat universiteten, men de har misslyckats med att f&#246;rst&#229; en sak: Gaza i sig &#228;r v&#228;rldens st&#246;rsta skola. </p><p>Vi &#228;r fiskarna som inte kan n&#229; havet, men vi &#228;r ocks&#229; palmerna som v&#228;grar b&#246;ja sig. </p><p>Skrattet som en g&#229;ng f&#246;ddes ur socker&#228;ggen i Al-Rimal &#228;r samma vilja och motst&#229;nd som g&#246;r att skolbarnen idag studerar ovanp&#229; ruinerna. 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Kulturen, maten, skratten och allt de &#228;lskade. Ett samh&#228;lle som tvingats lida och d&#246;. &#214;verlevare som minns det som var med k&#228;rlek och sm&#228;rta.</p><p><strong>D&#246;d.</strong> Den Hamasledda attacken mot Israel den 7 oktober 2023 d&#246;dade 1 195 m&#228;nniskor, varav 815 civila och 36 barn, enligt AFP. Sedan dess har Israel d&#246;dat &#246;ver 72 587 m&#228;nniskor i Gaza och skadat &#246;ver 172 381, enligt Gazas h&#228;lsomyndigheter.</p><p><strong>Barn.</strong> &#214;ver 64 000 barn har d&#246;dats eller skadats, &#246;ver 56 000 har f&#246;rlorat en eller b&#229;da sina f&#246;r&#228;ldrar, och mellan 3 000 och 4 000 har genomg&#229;tt en eller flera amputationer, enligt Unicef.</p><p><strong>F&#246;rdrivna.</strong> Omkring 90 procent av Gazas befolkning har tvingats fly, m&#229;nga av dem upprepade g&#229;nger, enligt FN<strong>.</strong></p><p><strong>Infrastruktur.</strong> Stora delar av Gazas bost&#228;der, sjukhus, skolor, kultur, odlingar, historiska och religi&#246;sa platser har skadats eller f&#246;rst&#246;rts, enligt FN.</p><div class="captioned-image-container"><figure><a class="image-link image2 is-viewable-img" target="_blank" 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Karta: OpenStreetMap</figcaption></figure></div></div>]]></content:encoded></item><item><title><![CDATA[A steady voice for the dead]]></title><description><![CDATA[AADMI STORY | SOMALIA #11]]></description><link>https://www.gadworld.se/p/a-steady-voice-for-the-dead</link><guid isPermaLink="false">https://www.gadworld.se/p/a-steady-voice-for-the-dead</guid><dc:creator><![CDATA[Wilo Abdulle Inkir/Ballanballe]]></dc:creator><pubDate>Wed, 03 Jun 2026 12:26:13 GMT</pubDate><enclosure url="https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!_vLU!,f_auto,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2F462a71b1-b1e7-4265-b948-0bbbbdec9ce0_2458x1729.jpeg" length="0" type="image/jpeg"/><content:encoded><![CDATA[<div class="captioned-image-container"><figure><a class="image-link image2 is-viewable-img" target="_blank" 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Now at age 77, she remembers the night her father, a member of the Somali Youth League, broke down and cried.</p><p>&#8220;My father had a small radio. There was no TV then. He listened to news. When it was announced that Lumumba of Congo was killed, my father did not speak for days. Then he played a song. A new song. Somali voices singing for a man they had never met&#8221;,<em> </em>she adds.</p><p>Amina still knows the words. She sings them to her grandchildren. They ask: &#8220;Who was Lumumba?&#8221; </p><div class="captioned-image-container"><figure><a class="image-link image2" target="_blank" href="https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!kj8v!,f_auto,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2Fa33f2890-5798-4f44-b975-652c38013077_960x124.png" data-component-name="Image2ToDOM"><div class="image2-inset"><picture><source type="image/webp" srcset="https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!kj8v!,w_424,c_limit,f_webp,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2Fa33f2890-5798-4f44-b975-652c38013077_960x124.png 424w, https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!kj8v!,w_848,c_limit,f_webp,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2Fa33f2890-5798-4f44-b975-652c38013077_960x124.png 848w, https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!kj8v!,w_1272,c_limit,f_webp,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2Fa33f2890-5798-4f44-b975-652c38013077_960x124.png 1272w, https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!kj8v!,w_1456,c_limit,f_webp,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2Fa33f2890-5798-4f44-b975-652c38013077_960x124.png 1456w" sizes="100vw"><img src="https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!kj8v!,w_1456,c_limit,f_auto,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2Fa33f2890-5798-4f44-b975-652c38013077_960x124.png" width="960" height="124" data-attrs="{&quot;src&quot;:&quot;https://substack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com/public/images/a33f2890-5798-4f44-b975-652c38013077_960x124.png&quot;,&quot;srcNoWatermark&quot;:null,&quot;fullscreen&quot;:null,&quot;imageSize&quot;:null,&quot;height&quot;:124,&quot;width&quot;:960,&quot;resizeWidth&quot;:null,&quot;bytes&quot;:33432,&quot;alt&quot;:null,&quot;title&quot;:null,&quot;type&quot;:&quot;image/png&quot;,&quot;href&quot;:null,&quot;belowTheFold&quot;:false,&quot;topImage&quot;:false,&quot;internalRedirect&quot;:&quot;https://www.gadworld.se/i/196873597?img=https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2F44cb7232-e6ce-4e6b-bfc0-2694d0e36ff0_960x540.png&quot;,&quot;isProcessing&quot;:false,&quot;align&quot;:null,&quot;offset&quot;:false}" class="sizing-normal" alt="" srcset="https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!kj8v!,w_424,c_limit,f_auto,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2Fa33f2890-5798-4f44-b975-652c38013077_960x124.png 424w, https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!kj8v!,w_848,c_limit,f_auto,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2Fa33f2890-5798-4f44-b975-652c38013077_960x124.png 848w, https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!kj8v!,w_1272,c_limit,f_auto,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2Fa33f2890-5798-4f44-b975-652c38013077_960x124.png 1272w, https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!kj8v!,w_1456,c_limit,f_auto,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2Fa33f2890-5798-4f44-b975-652c38013077_960x124.png 1456w" sizes="100vw"></picture><div></div></div></a></figure></div><p>She says: &#8220;A man who wanted Africans to own their own lands and resources. The colonisers &#8211; <em>guumeystayaasha</em> &#8211; killed him for that.&#8221; </p><p>This is intergenerational education. She does not explain further. She just sings the song.</p><p>She wants her grandchildren to learn the song. So it does not die with her.</p><p>Amina is not an elder in a war zone. She is a grandmother who keeps a murdered man&#8217;s memory alive through song.</p><p class="button-wrapper" data-attrs="{&quot;url&quot;:&quot;https://www.gadworld.se/subscribe?&quot;,&quot;text&quot;:&quot;Subscribe now&quot;,&quot;action&quot;:null,&quot;class&quot;:null}" data-component-name="ButtonCreateButton"><a class="button primary" href="https://www.gadworld.se/subscribe?"><span>Subscribe now</span></a></p><div class="callout-block" data-callout="true"><h3>Aadmi means human</h3><p>This is a series of short stories by journalist <strong>Wilo Abdulle</strong> about ordinary Somali people &#8211; and about what it means to be human.</p><p>When the world looks at Somalia, it often sees only war, famine, pirates, clan killings, statelessness, displacement. Those things exist. But they are not the whole truth. They are not even most of the truth.</p><p>That version was written by the hunters.</p><p>War does not turn people into something else. It forces them to live ordinary lives in extraordinary circumstances. They still eat. Still teach. Still hope. Still sing songs for murdered leaders from other countries. The hunters&#8217; stories never tell you that.</p><p>This is the lion&#8217;s story.</p><div class="preformatted-block" data-component-name="PreformattedTextBlockToDOM"><label class="hide-text" contenteditable="false">Text within this block will maintain its original spacing when published</label><pre class="text"><em>Inta libaaxu wax qorista ka 
baranayo, sheeko kasta waxaa 
sheegan doona ugaarsadeha. 

Until the lion learns how to write, 
every story will glorify the hunter.</em></pre></div></div><div><hr></div><p>Read the story behind the Aadmi Stories: <br><br>Read the first Postcard from Somalia: </p>]]></content:encoded></item><item><title><![CDATA[A white shell for the homesick ]]></title><description><![CDATA[AADMI STORY | SOMALIA #10]]></description><link>https://www.gadworld.se/p/a-white-shell-for-the-homesick</link><guid isPermaLink="false">https://www.gadworld.se/p/a-white-shell-for-the-homesick</guid><dc:creator><![CDATA[Wilo Abdulle Inkir/Ballanballe]]></dc:creator><pubDate>Wed, 03 Jun 2026 12:24:30 GMT</pubDate><enclosure url="https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!9Xuy!,f_auto,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2F043feee0-e117-4305-b869-c1b02d019489_2458x1728.jpeg" length="0" type="image/jpeg"/><content:encoded><![CDATA[<div class="captioned-image-container"><figure><a class="image-link image2 is-viewable-img" target="_blank" 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He grew up in Kismayo. He saw the Indian Ocean every day. Now he lives 300 kilometers from the coast. He has not seen the sea in 20 years.</p><p>He keeps a small shell in his pocket. He found it on a beach when he was young. </p><p>The shell is smooth and white. He rubs it with his thumb when he is thinking. And sometimes when he does his <em>wudhu</em> (washing) before <em>salat </em>(prayer).</p><p>Ahmed is a carpenter. He makes doors. Good doors. Doors that close properly. </p><div class="captioned-image-container"><figure><a class="image-link image2" target="_blank" href="https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!-c-6!,f_auto,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2Fed142387-a3d6-490a-ac34-c248247ca6a9_960x112.png" data-component-name="Image2ToDOM"><div class="image2-inset"><picture><source type="image/webp" srcset="https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!-c-6!,w_424,c_limit,f_webp,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2Fed142387-a3d6-490a-ac34-c248247ca6a9_960x112.png 424w, https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!-c-6!,w_848,c_limit,f_webp,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2Fed142387-a3d6-490a-ac34-c248247ca6a9_960x112.png 848w, https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!-c-6!,w_1272,c_limit,f_webp,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2Fed142387-a3d6-490a-ac34-c248247ca6a9_960x112.png 1272w, https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!-c-6!,w_1456,c_limit,f_webp,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2Fed142387-a3d6-490a-ac34-c248247ca6a9_960x112.png 1456w" sizes="100vw"><img src="https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!-c-6!,w_1456,c_limit,f_auto,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2Fed142387-a3d6-490a-ac34-c248247ca6a9_960x112.png" width="960" height="112" data-attrs="{&quot;src&quot;:&quot;https://substack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com/public/images/ed142387-a3d6-490a-ac34-c248247ca6a9_960x112.png&quot;,&quot;srcNoWatermark&quot;:null,&quot;fullscreen&quot;:null,&quot;imageSize&quot;:null,&quot;height&quot;:112,&quot;width&quot;:960,&quot;resizeWidth&quot;:null,&quot;bytes&quot;:34302,&quot;alt&quot;:null,&quot;title&quot;:null,&quot;type&quot;:&quot;image/png&quot;,&quot;href&quot;:null,&quot;belowTheFold&quot;:false,&quot;topImage&quot;:false,&quot;internalRedirect&quot;:&quot;https://www.gadworld.se/i/196872987?img=https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2F4728a825-51de-4dab-90f9-8c3e22e47343_960x540.png&quot;,&quot;isProcessing&quot;:false,&quot;align&quot;:null,&quot;offset&quot;:false}" class="sizing-normal" alt="" srcset="https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!-c-6!,w_424,c_limit,f_auto,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2Fed142387-a3d6-490a-ac34-c248247ca6a9_960x112.png 424w, https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!-c-6!,w_848,c_limit,f_auto,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2Fed142387-a3d6-490a-ac34-c248247ca6a9_960x112.png 848w, https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!-c-6!,w_1272,c_limit,f_auto,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2Fed142387-a3d6-490a-ac34-c248247ca6a9_960x112.png 1272w, https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!-c-6!,w_1456,c_limit,f_auto,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2Fed142387-a3d6-490a-ac34-c248247ca6a9_960x112.png 1456w" sizes="100vw"></picture><div></div></div></a></figure></div><p>He says: &#8220;A door that closes properly is better than a wall.&#8221;</p><p>He wants to see the sea again. Just once. To put his feet in the water. Then come back.</p><p>Ahmed is not an internally displaced person. He is a carpenter who misses the ocean.</p><p class="button-wrapper" data-attrs="{&quot;url&quot;:&quot;https://www.gadworld.se/subscribe?&quot;,&quot;text&quot;:&quot;Subscribe now&quot;,&quot;action&quot;:null,&quot;class&quot;:null}" data-component-name="ButtonCreateButton"><a class="button primary" href="https://www.gadworld.se/subscribe?"><span>Subscribe now</span></a></p><div class="callout-block" data-callout="true"><h3>Aadmi means human</h3><p>This is a series of short stories by journalist <strong>Wilo Abdulle</strong> about ordinary Somali people &#8211; and about what it means to be human.</p><p>When the world looks at Somalia, it often sees only war, famine, pirates, clan killings, statelessness, displacement. Those things exist. But they are not the whole truth. They are not even most of the truth.</p><p>That version was written by the hunters.</p><p>War does not turn people into something else. It forces them to live ordinary lives in extraordinary circumstances. They still eat. Still teach. Still hope. Still sing songs for murdered leaders from other countries. The hunters&#8217; stories never tell you that.</p><p>This is the lion&#8217;s story.</p><div class="preformatted-block" data-component-name="PreformattedTextBlockToDOM"><label class="hide-text" contenteditable="false">Text within this block will maintain its original spacing when published</label><pre class="text"><em>Inta libaaxu wax qorista ka 
baranayo, sheeko kasta waxaa 
sheegan doona ugaarsadeha. 

Until the lion learns how to write, 
every story will glorify the hunter.</em></pre></div></div><div><hr></div><p>Read the story behind the Aadmi Stories: </p><div class="digest-post-embed" data-attrs="{&quot;nodeId&quot;:&quot;2cde6cf9-199c-459e-a6c2-b91e96249fe9&quot;,&quot;caption&quot;:&quot;Gad World was created with a vision: to humanise those who have been dehumanised. Alongside our coverage of conflict, we want to tell stories of daily life &#8211; of ordinary people, their traditions and the places that carry them. 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Would like to learn more about the most effective ways of conducting qualitative research.&quot;,&quot;photo_url&quot;:&quot;https://substack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com/public/images/99df02b9-3062-4e83-88df-2faa75d3ff24_144x144.png&quot;,&quot;is_guest&quot;:false,&quot;bestseller_tier&quot;:null}],&quot;post_date&quot;:&quot;2026-06-03T12:26:13.772Z&quot;,&quot;cover_image&quot;:&quot;https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!_vLU!,f_auto,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2F462a71b1-b1e7-4265-b948-0bbbbdec9ce0_2458x1729.jpeg&quot;,&quot;cover_image_alt&quot;:null,&quot;canonical_url&quot;:&quot;https://www.gadworld.se/p/a-steady-voice-for-the-dead&quot;,&quot;section_name&quot;:&quot;Aadmi 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She has eleven grandchildren. All of them are from her sons. She does not remember all their names. She calls all of them <em>Waryaa</em> (if male) or <em>Naayaa</em> (if female) &#8211; &#8221;you there.&#8221;</p><p>Every afternoon, she sits under a <em>talaal</em> tree. She sorts beans. One handful at a time. </p><p>She removes the bad ones. She says: &#8220;Beans are like people. Some are good. Some are hard. You still cook them together.&#8221;</p><p>Her grandchildren come to her with problems. A lost goat. A broken cup. A torn notebook. A fight with a friend. </p><p>Layla listens. Then she gives them three beans. </p><div class="captioned-image-container"><figure><a class="image-link image2" target="_blank" href="https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!xYvy!,f_auto,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2Fc5485139-3b11-4508-b999-3ea1aed0634c_960x123.png" data-component-name="Image2ToDOM"><div class="image2-inset"><picture><source type="image/webp" srcset="https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!xYvy!,w_424,c_limit,f_webp,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2Fc5485139-3b11-4508-b999-3ea1aed0634c_960x123.png 424w, https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!xYvy!,w_848,c_limit,f_webp,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2Fc5485139-3b11-4508-b999-3ea1aed0634c_960x123.png 848w, https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!xYvy!,w_1272,c_limit,f_webp,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2Fc5485139-3b11-4508-b999-3ea1aed0634c_960x123.png 1272w, https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!xYvy!,w_1456,c_limit,f_webp,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2Fc5485139-3b11-4508-b999-3ea1aed0634c_960x123.png 1456w" sizes="100vw"><img src="https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!xYvy!,w_1456,c_limit,f_auto,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2Fc5485139-3b11-4508-b999-3ea1aed0634c_960x123.png" width="960" height="123" data-attrs="{&quot;src&quot;:&quot;https://substack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com/public/images/c5485139-3b11-4508-b999-3ea1aed0634c_960x123.png&quot;,&quot;srcNoWatermark&quot;:null,&quot;fullscreen&quot;:null,&quot;imageSize&quot;:null,&quot;height&quot;:123,&quot;width&quot;:960,&quot;resizeWidth&quot;:null,&quot;bytes&quot;:38778,&quot;alt&quot;:null,&quot;title&quot;:null,&quot;type&quot;:&quot;image/png&quot;,&quot;href&quot;:null,&quot;belowTheFold&quot;:false,&quot;topImage&quot;:false,&quot;internalRedirect&quot;:&quot;https://www.gadworld.se/i/196872509?img=https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2Ffe07d53e-b532-4c21-b217-b5021c933bef_960x540.png&quot;,&quot;isProcessing&quot;:false,&quot;align&quot;:null,&quot;offset&quot;:false}" class="sizing-normal" alt="" srcset="https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!xYvy!,w_424,c_limit,f_auto,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2Fc5485139-3b11-4508-b999-3ea1aed0634c_960x123.png 424w, https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!xYvy!,w_848,c_limit,f_auto,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2Fc5485139-3b11-4508-b999-3ea1aed0634c_960x123.png 848w, https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!xYvy!,w_1272,c_limit,f_auto,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2Fc5485139-3b11-4508-b999-3ea1aed0634c_960x123.png 1272w, https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!xYvy!,w_1456,c_limit,f_auto,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2Fc5485139-3b11-4508-b999-3ea1aed0634c_960x123.png 1456w" sizes="100vw"></picture><div></div></div></a></figure></div><p>She says: &#8220;Eat these. Then decide if it&#8217;s still a problem.&#8221; </p><p>It always works.</p><p>She wants a bigger bowl. So she can sort more beans at once.</p><p>Layla is not a vulnerable elder. She is a grandmother who solves problems with beans.</p><p class="button-wrapper" data-attrs="{&quot;url&quot;:&quot;https://www.gadworld.se/subscribe?&quot;,&quot;text&quot;:&quot;Subscribe now&quot;,&quot;action&quot;:null,&quot;class&quot;:null}" data-component-name="ButtonCreateButton"><a class="button primary" href="https://www.gadworld.se/subscribe?"><span>Subscribe now</span></a></p><div class="callout-block" data-callout="true"><h3>Aadmi means human</h3><p>This is a series of short stories by journalist <strong>Wilo Abdulle</strong> about ordinary Somali people &#8211; and about what it means to be human.</p><p>When the world looks at Somalia, it often sees only war, famine, pirates, clan killings, statelessness, displacement. Those things exist. But they are not the whole truth. They are not even most of the truth.</p><p>That version was written by the hunters.</p><p>War does not turn people into something else. It forces them to live ordinary lives in extraordinary circumstances. They still eat. Still teach. Still hope. Still sing songs for murdered leaders from other countries. The hunters&#8217; stories never tell you that.</p><p>This is the lion&#8217;s story.</p><div class="preformatted-block" data-component-name="PreformattedTextBlockToDOM"><label class="hide-text" contenteditable="false">Text within this block will maintain its original spacing when published</label><pre class="text"><em>Inta libaaxu wax qorista ka 
baranayo, sheeko kasta waxaa 
sheegan doona ugaarsadeha. 

Until the lion learns how to write, 
every story will glorify the hunter.</em></pre></div></div><div><hr></div><p>Read the story behind the Aadmi Stories: </p><div class="digest-post-embed" data-attrs="{&quot;nodeId&quot;:&quot;a93d9424-8742-4489-8466-431a8cad5a68&quot;,&quot;caption&quot;:&quot;Gad World was created with a vision: to humanise those who have been dehumanised. Alongside our coverage of conflict, we want to tell stories of daily life &#8211; of ordinary people, their traditions and the places that carry them. From this idea, Gad World Postcard&quot;,&quot;cta&quot;:null,&quot;showBylines&quot;:true,&quot;size&quot;:&quot;sm&quot;,&quot;isEditorNode&quot;:true,&quot;title&quot;:&quot;Aadmi means human: When journalism became art&quot;,&quot;publishedBylines&quot;:[{&quot;id&quot;:395031293,&quot;name&quot;:&quot;Magda Gad&quot;,&quot;bio&quot;:&quot;Magda Gad is a multi-award&#8211;winning journalist, war correspondent, honorary doctor, and founder of Gad World. &quot;,&quot;photo_url&quot;:&quot;https://substack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com/public/images/f886cdc4-4d5b-4638-baca-88e151473772_781x781.jpeg&quot;,&quot;is_guest&quot;:false,&quot;bestseller_tier&quot;:null}],&quot;post_date&quot;:&quot;2026-05-23T07:54:00.000Z&quot;,&quot;cover_image&quot;:&quot;https://substack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com/public/images/622c7fd7-da36-4919-89b2-8c771eb47765_980x640.png&quot;,&quot;cover_image_alt&quot;:null,&quot;canonical_url&quot;:&quot;https://www.gadworld.se/p/aadmi-means-human-when-journalism&quot;,&quot;section_name&quot;:&quot;Aadmi Stories&quot;,&quot;video_upload_id&quot;:null,&quot;id&quot;:196747629,&quot;type&quot;:&quot;newsletter&quot;,&quot;reaction_count&quot;:1,&quot;comment_count&quot;:0,&quot;publication_id&quot;:6772177,&quot;publication_name&quot;:&quot;Gad World&quot;,&quot;publication_logo_url&quot;:&quot;https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!qaRI!,f_auto,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2F9495424a-39d5-47b6-a622-6138bd723409_400x400.png&quot;,&quot;belowTheFold&quot;:true,&quot;youtube_url&quot;:null,&quot;show_links&quot;:null,&quot;feed_url&quot;:null}"></div><p>Read the next Aadmi Story:</p><div class="digest-post-embed" data-attrs="{&quot;nodeId&quot;:&quot;3c306020-64de-4842-a688-9c71dbff84be&quot;,&quot;caption&quot;:&quot;Ahmed is 52. He grew up in Kismayo. He saw the Indian Ocean every day. Now he lives 300 kilometers from the coast. He has not seen the sea in 20 years.&quot;,&quot;cta&quot;:null,&quot;showBylines&quot;:true,&quot;size&quot;:&quot;sm&quot;,&quot;isEditorNode&quot;:true,&quot;title&quot;:&quot;A white shell for the homesick &quot;,&quot;publishedBylines&quot;:[{&quot;id&quot;:153743359,&quot;name&quot;:&quot;Wilo Abdulle Inkir/Ballanballe&quot;,&quot;bio&quot;:&quot;I am a storyteller and research specialist on inclusive social protection. I want to learn about different research tools. Would like to learn more about the most effective ways of conducting qualitative research.&quot;,&quot;photo_url&quot;:&quot;https://substack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com/public/images/99df02b9-3062-4e83-88df-2faa75d3ff24_144x144.png&quot;,&quot;is_guest&quot;:false,&quot;bestseller_tier&quot;:null}],&quot;post_date&quot;:&quot;2026-06-03T12:24:30.567Z&quot;,&quot;cover_image&quot;:&quot;https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!9Xuy!,f_auto,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2F043feee0-e117-4305-b869-c1b02d019489_2458x1728.jpeg&quot;,&quot;cover_image_alt&quot;:null,&quot;canonical_url&quot;:&quot;https://www.gadworld.se/p/a-white-shell-for-the-homesick&quot;,&quot;section_name&quot;:&quot;Aadmi Stories&quot;,&quot;video_upload_id&quot;:null,&quot;id&quot;:200443252,&quot;type&quot;:&quot;newsletter&quot;,&quot;reaction_count&quot;:0,&quot;comment_count&quot;:0,&quot;publication_id&quot;:6772177,&quot;publication_name&quot;:&quot;Gad World&quot;,&quot;publication_logo_url&quot;:&quot;https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!qaRI!,f_auto,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2F9495424a-39d5-47b6-a622-6138bd723409_400x400.png&quot;,&quot;belowTheFold&quot;:true,&quot;youtube_url&quot;:null,&quot;show_links&quot;:null,&quot;feed_url&quot;:null}"></div>]]></content:encoded></item><item><title><![CDATA[A clear signal for the gifted]]></title><description><![CDATA[AADMI STORY | SOMALIA #8]]></description><link>https://www.gadworld.se/p/a-clear-signal-for-the-gifted</link><guid isPermaLink="false">https://www.gadworld.se/p/a-clear-signal-for-the-gifted</guid><dc:creator><![CDATA[Wilo Abdulle Inkir/Ballanballe]]></dc:creator><pubDate>Wed, 03 Jun 2026 12:20:53 GMT</pubDate><enclosure url="https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!PfsI!,f_auto,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2Fee3cd376-33e5-434b-bd67-7cd4fcabaedf_2458x1729.jpeg" length="0" type="image/jpeg"/><content:encoded><![CDATA[<div class="captioned-image-container"><figure><a class="image-link image2 is-viewable-img" target="_blank" href="https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!PfsI!,f_auto,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2Fee3cd376-33e5-434b-bd67-7cd4fcabaedf_2458x1729.jpeg" data-component-name="Image2ToDOM"><div class="image2-inset image2-full-screen"><picture><source type="image/webp" 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He cannot read. But he can fix any radio. He learned by taking apart his uncle&#8217;s old radio when he was nine. He put it back together. It worked better than before. </p><p>Now people bring him broken radios from far villages.</p><p>Omar listens to every radio he fixes. He likes music from Daljir radio. </p><p>He does not like the news. He says: &#8220;News is just the same bad thing repeated. 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Not because he is kind. </p><p>Because fixing them is the only thing that makes him feel smart &#8211; and it is his family&#8217;s lifeline.</p><p>Omar is not an out-of-school child. He is a radio repairman who hates the news.</p><p class="button-wrapper" data-attrs="{&quot;url&quot;:&quot;https://www.gadworld.se/subscribe?&quot;,&quot;text&quot;:&quot;Subscribe now&quot;,&quot;action&quot;:null,&quot;class&quot;:null}" data-component-name="ButtonCreateButton"><a class="button primary" href="https://www.gadworld.se/subscribe?"><span>Subscribe now</span></a></p><div class="callout-block" data-callout="true"><h3>Aadmi means human</h3><p>This is a series of short stories by journalist <strong>Wilo Abdulle</strong> about ordinary Somali people &#8211; and about what it means to be human.</p><p>When the world looks at Somalia, it often sees only war, famine, pirates, clan killings, statelessness, displacement. Those things exist. But they are not the whole truth. They are not even most of the truth.</p><p>That version was written by the hunters.</p><p>War does not turn people into something else. It forces them to live ordinary lives in extraordinary circumstances. They still eat. Still teach. Still hope. Still sing songs for murdered leaders from other countries. The hunters&#8217; stories never tell you that.</p><p>This is the lion&#8217;s story.</p><div class="preformatted-block" data-component-name="PreformattedTextBlockToDOM"><label class="hide-text" contenteditable="false">Text within this block will maintain its original spacing when published</label><pre class="text"><em>Inta libaaxu wax qorista ka 
baranayo, sheeko kasta waxaa 
sheegan doona ugaarsadeha. 

Until the lion learns how to write, 
every story will glorify the hunter.</em></pre></div></div><div><hr></div><p>Read the story behind the Aadmi Stories: </p><div class="digest-post-embed" data-attrs="{&quot;nodeId&quot;:&quot;8fd48b42-10b5-4ff3-927a-a8eb4e9df3df&quot;,&quot;caption&quot;:&quot;Gad World was created with a vision: to humanise those who have been dehumanised. Alongside our coverage of conflict, we want to tell stories of daily life &#8211; of ordinary people, their traditions and the places that carry them. 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Stories&quot;,&quot;video_upload_id&quot;:null,&quot;id&quot;:196872509,&quot;type&quot;:&quot;newsletter&quot;,&quot;reaction_count&quot;:0,&quot;comment_count&quot;:0,&quot;publication_id&quot;:6772177,&quot;publication_name&quot;:&quot;Gad World&quot;,&quot;publication_logo_url&quot;:&quot;https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!qaRI!,f_auto,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2F9495424a-39d5-47b6-a622-6138bd723409_400x400.png&quot;,&quot;belowTheFold&quot;:true,&quot;youtube_url&quot;:null,&quot;show_links&quot;:null,&quot;feed_url&quot;:null}"></div>]]></content:encoded></item><item><title><![CDATA[A bad joke for the living]]></title><description><![CDATA[AADMI STORY | SOMALIA #7]]></description><link>https://www.gadworld.se/p/a-bad-joke-for-the-living</link><guid isPermaLink="false">https://www.gadworld.se/p/a-bad-joke-for-the-living</guid><dc:creator><![CDATA[Wilo Abdulle 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She has seven children. She also has a laugh that scares birds. When she laughs, people turn around. Neighbors smile. Her children cover their ears and laugh too. </p><p>Asha says: &#8220;If you stop laughing, the war wins. I refuse.&#8221;</p><p>She sells camel milk at a small roadside table. She wakes at 3 a.m. to milk the cows. By 7 a.m., she is sitting on a red plastic crate, waiting for customers. </p><p>She greets everyone with the same loud voice: &#8220;Come! My milk is better than my jokes!&#8221;</p><div class="captioned-image-container"><figure><a class="image-link image2" target="_blank" href="https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!o9i4!,f_auto,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2F21fc94c9-316a-44fb-92fd-85321967958f_960x124.png" data-component-name="Image2ToDOM"><div class="image2-inset"><picture><source type="image/webp" srcset="https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!o9i4!,w_424,c_limit,f_webp,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2F21fc94c9-316a-44fb-92fd-85321967958f_960x124.png 424w, https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!o9i4!,w_848,c_limit,f_webp,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2F21fc94c9-316a-44fb-92fd-85321967958f_960x124.png 848w, https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!o9i4!,w_1272,c_limit,f_webp,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2F21fc94c9-316a-44fb-92fd-85321967958f_960x124.png 1272w, https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!o9i4!,w_1456,c_limit,f_webp,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2F21fc94c9-316a-44fb-92fd-85321967958f_960x124.png 1456w" sizes="100vw"><img src="https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!o9i4!,w_1456,c_limit,f_auto,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2F21fc94c9-316a-44fb-92fd-85321967958f_960x124.png" width="960" height="124" data-attrs="{&quot;src&quot;:&quot;https://substack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com/public/images/21fc94c9-316a-44fb-92fd-85321967958f_960x124.png&quot;,&quot;srcNoWatermark&quot;:null,&quot;fullscreen&quot;:null,&quot;imageSize&quot;:null,&quot;height&quot;:124,&quot;width&quot;:960,&quot;resizeWidth&quot;:null,&quot;bytes&quot;:43168,&quot;alt&quot;:null,&quot;title&quot;:null,&quot;type&quot;:&quot;image/png&quot;,&quot;href&quot;:null,&quot;belowTheFold&quot;:false,&quot;topImage&quot;:false,&quot;internalRedirect&quot;:&quot;https://www.gadworld.se/i/196868842?img=https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2Fb45458c5-4518-4326-a406-1216246ab0f0_960x540.png&quot;,&quot;isProcessing&quot;:false,&quot;align&quot;:null,&quot;offset&quot;:false}" class="sizing-normal" alt="" srcset="https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!o9i4!,w_424,c_limit,f_auto,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2F21fc94c9-316a-44fb-92fd-85321967958f_960x124.png 424w, https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!o9i4!,w_848,c_limit,f_auto,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2F21fc94c9-316a-44fb-92fd-85321967958f_960x124.png 848w, https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!o9i4!,w_1272,c_limit,f_auto,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2F21fc94c9-316a-44fb-92fd-85321967958f_960x124.png 1272w, https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!o9i4!,w_1456,c_limit,f_auto,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2F21fc94c9-316a-44fb-92fd-85321967958f_960x124.png 1456w" sizes="100vw"></picture><div></div></div></a></figure></div><p>Her milk is pure and good. Her jokes are terrible. People buy both.</p><p>She wants a chair. The plastic crate hurts her back.</p><p>Asha is not a resilient woman. She is just a woman who laughs too loud and tells bad jokes.</p><p class="button-wrapper" data-attrs="{&quot;url&quot;:&quot;https://www.gadworld.se/subscribe?&quot;,&quot;text&quot;:&quot;Subscribe now&quot;,&quot;action&quot;:null,&quot;class&quot;:null}" data-component-name="ButtonCreateButton"><a class="button primary" href="https://www.gadworld.se/subscribe?"><span>Subscribe now</span></a></p><div class="callout-block" data-callout="true"><h3>Aadmi means human</h3><p>This is a series of short stories by journalist <strong>Wilo Abdulle</strong> about ordinary Somali people &#8211; and about what it means to be human.</p><p>When the world looks at Somalia, it often sees only war, famine, pirates, clan killings, statelessness, displacement. Those things exist. But they are not the whole truth. They are not even most of the truth.</p><p>That version was written by the hunters.</p><p>War does not turn people into something else. It forces them to live ordinary lives in extraordinary circumstances. They still eat. Still teach. Still hope. Still sing songs for murdered leaders from other countries. The hunters&#8217; stories never tell you that.</p><p>This is the lion&#8217;s story.</p><div class="preformatted-block" data-component-name="PreformattedTextBlockToDOM"><label class="hide-text" contenteditable="false">Text within this block will maintain its original spacing when published</label><pre class="text"><em>Inta libaaxu wax qorista ka 
baranayo, sheeko kasta waxaa 
sheegan doona ugaarsadeha. 

Until the lion learns how to write, 
every story will glorify the hunter.</em></pre></div></div><div><hr></div><p>Read the story behind the Aadmi Stories: </p><div class="digest-post-embed" data-attrs="{&quot;nodeId&quot;:&quot;40bbe808-9a95-4dd0-b39a-ed625b8418af&quot;,&quot;caption&quot;:&quot;Gad World was created with a vision: to humanise those who have been dehumanised. Alongside our coverage of conflict, we want to tell stories of daily life &#8211; of ordinary people, their traditions and the places that carry them. 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Stories&quot;,&quot;video_upload_id&quot;:null,&quot;id&quot;:196870257,&quot;type&quot;:&quot;newsletter&quot;,&quot;reaction_count&quot;:0,&quot;comment_count&quot;:0,&quot;publication_id&quot;:6772177,&quot;publication_name&quot;:&quot;Gad World&quot;,&quot;publication_logo_url&quot;:&quot;https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!qaRI!,f_auto,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2F9495424a-39d5-47b6-a622-6138bd723409_400x400.png&quot;,&quot;belowTheFold&quot;:true,&quot;youtube_url&quot;:null,&quot;show_links&quot;:null,&quot;feed_url&quot;:null}"></div>]]></content:encoded></item><item><title><![CDATA[A simple lesson for the loyal]]></title><description><![CDATA[AADMI STORY | SOMALIA #6]]></description><link>https://www.gadworld.se/p/a-simple-lesson-for-the-loyal</link><guid isPermaLink="false">https://www.gadworld.se/p/a-simple-lesson-for-the-loyal</guid><dc:creator><![CDATA[Magda Gad]]></dc:creator><pubDate>Wed, 03 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He cannot run. He cannot fight. But every night, he sleeps outside close to the goat fence. He says: &#8220;The goats do not know about clans. They only know grass and water. I learn from them.&#8221;</p><p>At night, he hears everything. Hyenas. Wind. Sometimes gunfire far away. </p><p>When the gunfire comes close, he whispers to the goats. He tells them to lie down. They listen.</p><div class="captioned-image-container"><figure><a class="image-link image2" target="_blank" href="https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!3S28!,f_auto,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2F1b68260f-083d-487d-858f-8159cfe2e531_960x123.png" data-component-name="Image2ToDOM"><div class="image2-inset"><picture><source type="image/webp" srcset="https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!3S28!,w_424,c_limit,f_webp,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2F1b68260f-083d-487d-858f-8159cfe2e531_960x123.png 424w, https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!3S28!,w_848,c_limit,f_webp,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2F1b68260f-083d-487d-858f-8159cfe2e531_960x123.png 848w, https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!3S28!,w_1272,c_limit,f_webp,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2F1b68260f-083d-487d-858f-8159cfe2e531_960x123.png 1272w, https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!3S28!,w_1456,c_limit,f_webp,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2F1b68260f-083d-487d-858f-8159cfe2e531_960x123.png 1456w" sizes="100vw"><img src="https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!3S28!,w_1456,c_limit,f_auto,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2F1b68260f-083d-487d-858f-8159cfe2e531_960x123.png" width="960" height="123" data-attrs="{&quot;src&quot;:&quot;https://substack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com/public/images/1b68260f-083d-487d-858f-8159cfe2e531_960x123.png&quot;,&quot;srcNoWatermark&quot;:null,&quot;fullscreen&quot;:null,&quot;imageSize&quot;:null,&quot;height&quot;:123,&quot;width&quot;:960,&quot;resizeWidth&quot;:null,&quot;bytes&quot;:52635,&quot;alt&quot;:null,&quot;title&quot;:null,&quot;type&quot;:&quot;image/png&quot;,&quot;href&quot;:null,&quot;belowTheFold&quot;:false,&quot;topImage&quot;:false,&quot;internalRedirect&quot;:&quot;https://www.gadworld.se/i/196861632?img=https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2F9d9c525f-ff3c-4e0f-9a82-8ae2ddf41fcf_960x540.png&quot;,&quot;isProcessing&quot;:false,&quot;align&quot;:null,&quot;offset&quot;:false}" class="sizing-normal" alt="" srcset="https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!3S28!,w_424,c_limit,f_auto,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2F1b68260f-083d-487d-858f-8159cfe2e531_960x123.png 424w, https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!3S28!,w_848,c_limit,f_auto,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2F1b68260f-083d-487d-858f-8159cfe2e531_960x123.png 848w, https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!3S28!,w_1272,c_limit,f_auto,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2F1b68260f-083d-487d-858f-8159cfe2e531_960x123.png 1272w, https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!3S28!,w_1456,c_limit,f_auto,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2F1b68260f-083d-487d-858f-8159cfe2e531_960x123.png 1456w" sizes="100vw"></picture><div></div></div></a></figure></div><p>Muse has one son who lives in Norway. His son calls him every Friday. Muse does not understand why anyone would leave goats.</p><p>He wants a blanket. His old one has holes.</p><p>Muse is not a refugee&#8217;s father. He is a man who sleeps close to his goats so they do not feel alone or afraid.</p><p class="button-wrapper" data-attrs="{&quot;url&quot;:&quot;https://www.gadworld.se/subscribe?&quot;,&quot;text&quot;:&quot;Subscribe now&quot;,&quot;action&quot;:null,&quot;class&quot;:null}" data-component-name="ButtonCreateButton"><a class="button primary" href="https://www.gadworld.se/subscribe?"><span>Subscribe now</span></a></p><div class="callout-block" data-callout="true"><h3>Aadmi means human</h3><p>This is a series of short stories by journalist <strong>Wilo Abdulle</strong> about ordinary Somali people &#8211; and about what it means to be human.</p><p>When the world looks at Somalia, it often sees only war, famine, pirates, clan killings, statelessness, displacement. Those things exist. But they are not the whole truth. They are not even most of the truth.</p><p>That version was written by the hunters.</p><p>War does not turn people into something else. It forces them to live ordinary lives in extraordinary circumstances. They still eat. Still teach. Still hope. Still sing songs for murdered leaders from other countries. The hunters&#8217; stories never tell you that.</p><p>This is the lion&#8217;s story.</p><div class="preformatted-block" data-component-name="PreformattedTextBlockToDOM"><label class="hide-text" contenteditable="false">Text within this block will maintain its original spacing when published</label><pre class="text"><em>Inta libaaxu wax qorista ka 
baranayo, sheeko kasta waxaa 
sheegan doona ugaarsadeha. 

Until the lion learns how to write, 
every story will glorify the hunter.</em></pre></div></div><div><hr></div><p>Read the story behind the Aadmi Story:<br><br>Read the next Aadmi Story:</p>]]></content:encoded></item><item><title><![CDATA[A long walk for the dreamers ]]></title><description><![CDATA[AADMI STORY | SOMALIA #5]]></description><link>https://www.gadworld.se/p/a-long-walk-for-the-dreamers</link><guid isPermaLink="false">https://www.gadworld.se/p/a-long-walk-for-the-dreamers</guid><pubDate>Wed, 03 Jun 2026 12:13:50 GMT</pubDate><enclosure url="https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!Vj2z!,f_auto,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2F3038986d-5d7d-4ebf-a038-3a55989a7586_2458x1729.jpeg" length="0" type="image/jpeg"/><content:encoded><![CDATA[<div class="captioned-image-container"><figure><a class="image-link image2 is-viewable-img" target="_blank" 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She lives with her grandmother because her parents work in a different region. They send money when they can. Hodan&#8217;s job is to fetch water. </p><p>Every morning, she walks two hours to a well. </p><p>She carries a yellow plastic container on her back. She walks back. Two hours. Every day.</p><p>On the walk, she invents songs. 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She has never owned shoes with a bow.</p><p>She wants blue shoes. That is all. Not peace. Not an end to drought. Just blue shoes with a bow.</p><p>Hodan is not a statistic. She is a nine-year-old who sings about shoes.</p><p class="button-wrapper" data-attrs="{&quot;url&quot;:&quot;https://www.gadworld.se/subscribe?&quot;,&quot;text&quot;:&quot;Subscribe now&quot;,&quot;action&quot;:null,&quot;class&quot;:null}" data-component-name="ButtonCreateButton"><a class="button primary" href="https://www.gadworld.se/subscribe?"><span>Subscribe now</span></a></p><div class="callout-block" data-callout="true"><h3>Aadmi means human</h3><p>This is a series of short stories by journalist <strong>Wilo Abdulle</strong> about ordinary Somali people &#8211; and about what it means to be human.</p><p>When the world looks at Somalia, it often sees only war, famine, pirates, clan killings, statelessness, displacement. Those things exist. But they are not the whole truth. They are not even most of the truth.</p><p>That version was written by the hunters.</p><p>War does not turn people into something else. It forces them to live ordinary lives in extraordinary circumstances. They still eat. Still teach. Still hope. Still sing songs for murdered leaders from other countries. The hunters&#8217; stories never tell you that.</p><p>This is the lion&#8217;s story.</p><div class="preformatted-block" data-component-name="PreformattedTextBlockToDOM"><label class="hide-text" contenteditable="false">Text within this block will maintain its original spacing when published</label><pre class="text"><em>Inta libaaxu wax qorista ka 
baranayo, sheeko kasta waxaa 
sheegan doona ugaarsadeha. 

Until the lion learns how to write, 
every story will glorify the hunter.</em></pre></div></div><div><hr></div><p>Read the story behind the Aadmi Stories:</p><div class="digest-post-embed" data-attrs="{&quot;nodeId&quot;:&quot;79aec655-525a-433d-826e-1adac3af246d&quot;,&quot;caption&quot;:&quot;Gad World was created with a vision: to humanise those who have been dehumanised. Alongside our coverage of conflict, we wanted to tell stories of daily life &#8211; of ordinary people, their traditions and the places that carry them. 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He cannot run. He cannot fight. But every night, he sleeps outside close to the goat fence. He says: &#8220;The goats do not know about clans. They only know grass and water. 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He has taught for 35 years. For 15 of those years, he has taught children in a camp outside Bosaso. He has no classroom. He has a black wall. He has 17 students. They sit on the ground. They write in their UNICEF-marked notebooks.</p><p>Bashir teaches Somali language, history, maths, poems. </p><p>Last week&#8217;s poem was about a bird that drinks from a dry riverbed. The children did not understand. </p><div class="captioned-image-container"><figure><a class="image-link image2" target="_blank" href="https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!Z5X7!,f_auto,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2Fd6123d25-afe3-4163-8b93-556c620e47ff_960x122.png" data-component-name="Image2ToDOM"><div class="image2-inset"><picture><source type="image/webp" srcset="https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!Z5X7!,w_424,c_limit,f_webp,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2Fd6123d25-afe3-4163-8b93-556c620e47ff_960x122.png 424w, https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!Z5X7!,w_848,c_limit,f_webp,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2Fd6123d25-afe3-4163-8b93-556c620e47ff_960x122.png 848w, https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!Z5X7!,w_1272,c_limit,f_webp,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2Fd6123d25-afe3-4163-8b93-556c620e47ff_960x122.png 1272w, https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!Z5X7!,w_1456,c_limit,f_webp,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2Fd6123d25-afe3-4163-8b93-556c620e47ff_960x122.png 1456w" sizes="100vw"><img src="https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!Z5X7!,w_1456,c_limit,f_auto,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2Fd6123d25-afe3-4163-8b93-556c620e47ff_960x122.png" width="960" height="122" data-attrs="{&quot;src&quot;:&quot;https://substack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com/public/images/d6123d25-afe3-4163-8b93-556c620e47ff_960x122.png&quot;,&quot;srcNoWatermark&quot;:null,&quot;fullscreen&quot;:null,&quot;imageSize&quot;:null,&quot;height&quot;:122,&quot;width&quot;:960,&quot;resizeWidth&quot;:null,&quot;bytes&quot;:47395,&quot;alt&quot;:null,&quot;title&quot;:null,&quot;type&quot;:&quot;image/png&quot;,&quot;href&quot;:null,&quot;belowTheFold&quot;:false,&quot;topImage&quot;:false,&quot;internalRedirect&quot;:&quot;https://www.gadworld.se/i/196765931?img=https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2Fdaac7558-78c9-47e7-97d9-a2f3626696d4_960x540.png&quot;,&quot;isProcessing&quot;:false,&quot;align&quot;:null,&quot;offset&quot;:false}" class="sizing-normal" alt="" srcset="https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!Z5X7!,w_424,c_limit,f_auto,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2Fd6123d25-afe3-4163-8b93-556c620e47ff_960x122.png 424w, https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!Z5X7!,w_848,c_limit,f_auto,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2Fd6123d25-afe3-4163-8b93-556c620e47ff_960x122.png 848w, https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!Z5X7!,w_1272,c_limit,f_auto,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2Fd6123d25-afe3-4163-8b93-556c620e47ff_960x122.png 1272w, https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!Z5X7!,w_1456,c_limit,f_auto,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2Fd6123d25-afe3-4163-8b93-556c620e47ff_960x122.png 1456w" sizes="100vw"></picture><div></div></div></a></figure></div><p>Bashir said: &#8220;The bird keeps looking. Even when the water is gone. That is the poem.&#8221;</p><p>He wants the wall to be painted again. So the children can see what he writes.</p><p>Bashir is not a hero. He is a teacher who has not missed a day in many years.</p><p class="button-wrapper" data-attrs="{&quot;url&quot;:&quot;https://www.gadworld.se/subscribe?&quot;,&quot;text&quot;:&quot;Subscribe now&quot;,&quot;action&quot;:null,&quot;class&quot;:null}" data-component-name="ButtonCreateButton"><a class="button primary" href="https://www.gadworld.se/subscribe?"><span>Subscribe now</span></a></p><div class="callout-block" data-callout="true"><h3>Aadmi means human</h3><p>This is a series of short stories by journalist <strong>Wilo Abdulle</strong> about ordinary Somali people &#8211; and about what it means to be human.</p><p>When the world looks at Somalia, it often sees only war, famine, pirates, clan killings, statelessness, displacement. Those things exist. But they are not the whole truth. They are not even most of the truth.</p><p>That version was written by the hunters.</p><p>War does not turn people into something else. It forces them to live ordinary lives in extraordinary circumstances. They still eat. Still teach. Still hope. Still sing songs for murdered leaders from other countries. The hunters&#8217; stories never tell you that.</p><p>This is the lion&#8217;s story.</p><div class="preformatted-block" data-component-name="PreformattedTextBlockToDOM"><label class="hide-text" contenteditable="false">Text within this block will maintain its original spacing when published</label><pre class="text"><em>Inta libaaxu wax qorista ka 
baranayo, sheeko kasta waxaa 
sheegan doona ugaarsadeha. 

Until the lion learns how to write, 
every story will glorify the hunter.</em></pre></div></div><div><hr></div><p>Read the story behind the Aadmi Stories:</p><div class="digest-post-embed" data-attrs="{&quot;nodeId&quot;:&quot;1004fcd2-d235-4f1a-a6d7-98eb0690237e&quot;,&quot;caption&quot;:&quot;Gad World was created with a vision: to humanise those who have been dehumanised. Alongside our coverage of conflict, we wanted to tell stories of daily life &#8211; of ordinary people, their traditions and the places that carry them. 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She owns goats. She also owns a small notebook with a blue cover. Every evening, she counts. Not just numbers. She writes: &#8220;Black goat with broken horn &#8211;&nbsp;limping but eating. White goat with twins &#8211; tired but proud. Brown goat &#8211; angry today for no reason.&#8221; She notes.</p><p>Her husband laughs. 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Before the war, she balanced books for a government office. </p><p>Now she balances her goats.</p><p>She wants a new notebook. The blue one has only five pages left.</p><p>Fartun is not a vulnerable Somali woman. She is an accountant who now works in goats. She buys and sells them.</p><p class="button-wrapper" data-attrs="{&quot;url&quot;:&quot;https://www.gadworld.se/subscribe?&quot;,&quot;text&quot;:&quot;Subscribe now&quot;,&quot;action&quot;:null,&quot;class&quot;:null}" data-component-name="ButtonCreateButton"><a class="button primary" href="https://www.gadworld.se/subscribe?"><span>Subscribe now</span></a></p><div class="callout-block" data-callout="true"><h3>Aadmi means human</h3><p>This is a series of short stories by journalist <strong>Wilo Abdulle</strong> about ordinary Somali people &#8211; and about what it means to be human.</p><p>When the world looks at Somalia, it often sees only war, famine, pirates, clan killings, statelessness, displacement. Those things exist. But they are not the whole truth. They are not even most of the truth.</p><p>That version was written by the hunters.</p><p>War does not turn people into something else. It forces them to live ordinary lives in extraordinary circumstances. They still eat. Still teach. Still hope. Still sing songs for murdered leaders from other countries. The hunters&#8217; stories never tell you that.</p><p>This is the lion&#8217;s story.</p><div class="preformatted-block" data-component-name="PreformattedTextBlockToDOM"><label class="hide-text" contenteditable="false">Text within this block will maintain its original spacing when published</label><pre class="text"><em>Inta libaaxu wax qorista ka 
baranayo, sheeko kasta waxaa 
sheegan doona ugaarsadeha. 

Until the lion learns how to write, 
every story will glorify the hunter.</em></pre></div><p></p></div><div><hr></div><p>Read the story behind the Aadmi Stories: </p><div class="digest-post-embed" data-attrs="{&quot;nodeId&quot;:&quot;903d680e-b11c-4e3f-b644-02c1b7249902&quot;,&quot;caption&quot;:&quot;Gad World was created with a vision: to humanise those who have been dehumanised. Alongside our coverage of conflict, we wanted to tell stories of daily life &#8211; of ordinary people, their traditions and the places that carry them. 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F&#229;glar g&#246;r mig lycklig. Teckning av den palestinska konstn&#228;ren Basel El Maqousi fr&#229;n Gaza. Copyright: Basel El Maqosui</figcaption></figure></div><p>Det &#228;r m&#228;rkligt att g&#229; fr&#229;n en syn p&#229; v&#228;rlden till en helt annan. Mest eftersom det kr&#228;vs att jag f&#246;r&#228;ndrar mig sj&#228;lv ocks&#229;. Det g&#229;r inte att vara densamma l&#228;ngre. Om jag &#228;r det s&#229; forts&#228;tter jag v&#228;l bara att uppr&#228;tth&#229;lla n&#229;got som beh&#246;ver d&#246;? Jag kan inte kr&#228;va att v&#228;rlden f&#246;r&#228;ndras om jag inte &#228;r beredd att f&#246;r&#228;ndras sj&#228;lv.</p><p>Det finns en fara i det nu, att alla som vill f&#246;r&#228;ndra v&#228;rlden till n&#229;got radikalt annorlunda &#8211; vare sig det g&#228;ller ekonomiska system, ekologi eller hur vi r&#246;r oss socialt &#8211; g&#246;r det p&#229; ett intellektuellt plan. T&#228;nker och pratar mycket om hur det borde se ut men r&#246;r sig in i den nya v&#228;rlden som samma m&#228;nniska som tidigare, marinerad i det system vi v&#228;xt upp i. </p><p class="button-wrapper" data-attrs="{&quot;url&quot;:&quot;https://www.gadworld.se/subscribe?&quot;,&quot;text&quot;:&quot;Subscribe now&quot;,&quot;action&quot;:null,&quot;class&quot;:null}" data-component-name="ButtonCreateButton"><a class="button primary" href="https://www.gadworld.se/subscribe?"><span>Subscribe now</span></a></p><div class="captioned-image-container"><figure><a class="image-link image2 is-viewable-img" target="_blank" href="https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!KW8g!,f_auto,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2F11f90b67-6b41-455a-95d7-a4ad299d6480_1200x1600.jpeg" data-component-name="Image2ToDOM"><div class="image2-inset"><picture><source type="image/webp" 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N&#229;got l&#228;mnar och ger plats &#229;t n&#229;got nytt som f&#246;ds. Foto: Anna Branten</p><p>Kanske &#228;r det d&#228;rf&#246;r s&#229; mycket f&#246;r&#228;ndring stannar vid id&#233;er. Vi f&#246;rs&#246;ker skapa n&#229;got nytt med samma reflexer, samma drivkrafter och samma s&#228;tt att f&#246;rst&#229; v&#228;rde som tidigare.</p><p>Den jag var, var st&#228;ndigt p&#229; v&#228;g mot n&#229;got. Levde p&#229; att f&#246;rst&#229; vad som h&#246;ll p&#229; att ske innan det riktigt skedde. Ville vara f&#246;rst. Starta saker. Bygga. T&#228;nkte st&#246;rre, snabbare, mer. Det fanns alltid ett nytt, n&#228;sta steg och jag levde i det steget.</p><div class="captioned-image-container"><figure><a class="image-link image2 is-viewable-img" target="_blank" href="https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!jx0W!,f_auto,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2F0d262540-9411-4970-82c4-64b22f05620b_960x250.png" data-component-name="Image2ToDOM"><div class="image2-inset"><picture><source type="image/webp" srcset="https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!jx0W!,w_424,c_limit,f_webp,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2F0d262540-9411-4970-82c4-64b22f05620b_960x250.png 424w, https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!jx0W!,w_848,c_limit,f_webp,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2F0d262540-9411-4970-82c4-64b22f05620b_960x250.png 848w, https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!jx0W!,w_1272,c_limit,f_webp,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2F0d262540-9411-4970-82c4-64b22f05620b_960x250.png 1272w, https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!jx0W!,w_1456,c_limit,f_webp,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2F0d262540-9411-4970-82c4-64b22f05620b_960x250.png 1456w" sizes="100vw"><img src="https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!jx0W!,w_1456,c_limit,f_auto,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2F0d262540-9411-4970-82c4-64b22f05620b_960x250.png" width="960" height="250" data-attrs="{&quot;src&quot;:&quot;https://substack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com/public/images/0d262540-9411-4970-82c4-64b22f05620b_960x250.png&quot;,&quot;srcNoWatermark&quot;:null,&quot;fullscreen&quot;:null,&quot;imageSize&quot;:null,&quot;height&quot;:250,&quot;width&quot;:960,&quot;resizeWidth&quot;:null,&quot;bytes&quot;:94621,&quot;alt&quot;:null,&quot;title&quot;:null,&quot;type&quot;:&quot;image/png&quot;,&quot;href&quot;:null,&quot;belowTheFold&quot;:false,&quot;topImage&quot;:false,&quot;internalRedirect&quot;:&quot;https://www.gadworld.se/i/199829646?img=https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2Ffa2bf035-bbe3-4ab7-b4b9-ef22a5dac366_960x540.png&quot;,&quot;isProcessing&quot;:false,&quot;align&quot;:null,&quot;offset&quot;:false}" class="sizing-normal" alt="" srcset="https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!jx0W!,w_424,c_limit,f_auto,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2F0d262540-9411-4970-82c4-64b22f05620b_960x250.png 424w, https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!jx0W!,w_848,c_limit,f_auto,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2F0d262540-9411-4970-82c4-64b22f05620b_960x250.png 848w, https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!jx0W!,w_1272,c_limit,f_auto,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2F0d262540-9411-4970-82c4-64b22f05620b_960x250.png 1272w, https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!jx0W!,w_1456,c_limit,f_auto,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2F0d262540-9411-4970-82c4-64b22f05620b_960x250.png 1456w" sizes="100vw"></picture><div class="image-link-expand"><div class="pencraft pc-display-flex pc-gap-8 pc-reset"><button tabindex="0" type="button" class="pencraft pc-reset pencraft icon-container restack-image"><svg role="img" width="20" height="20" viewBox="0 0 20 20" fill="none" stroke-width="1.5" stroke="var(--color-fg-primary)" stroke-linecap="round" stroke-linejoin="round" xmlns="http://www.w3.org/2000/svg"><g><title></title><path d="M2.53001 7.81595C3.49179 4.73911 6.43281 2.5 9.91173 2.5C13.1684 2.5 15.9537 4.46214 17.0852 7.23684L17.6179 8.67647M17.6179 8.67647L18.5002 4.26471M17.6179 8.67647L13.6473 6.91176M17.4995 12.1841C16.5378 15.2609 13.5967 17.5 10.1178 17.5C6.86118 17.5 4.07589 15.5379 2.94432 12.7632L2.41165 11.3235M2.41165 11.3235L1.5293 15.7353M2.41165 11.3235L6.38224 13.0882"></path></g></svg></button><button tabindex="0" type="button" class="pencraft pc-reset pencraft icon-container view-image"><svg xmlns="http://www.w3.org/2000/svg" width="20" height="20" viewBox="0 0 24 24" fill="none" stroke="currentColor" stroke-width="2" stroke-linecap="round" stroke-linejoin="round" class="lucide lucide-maximize2 lucide-maximize-2"><polyline points="15 3 21 3 21 9"></polyline><polyline points="9 21 3 21 3 15"></polyline><line x1="21" x2="14" y1="3" y2="10"></line><line x1="3" x2="10" y1="21" y2="14"></line></svg></button></div></div></div></a></figure></div><p>Allt f&#246;r&#228;ndras n&#228;r det f&#246;rsvinner. Inte bara det jag tycker eller tror, utan sj&#228;lva k&#228;nslan av vem jag &#228;r.</p><p>Den jag var lever fortfarande kvar som ett eko n&#229;gonstans, samtidigt som en annan del av mig f&#246;rs&#246;ker vrida kompassen r&#228;tt. Den gamla betraktar den nya och vill snabba p&#229;, den nya &#228;r besviken p&#229; att den gamla inte slutade tidigare.</p><div class="captioned-image-container"><figure><a class="image-link image2 is-viewable-img" target="_blank" href="https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!4dZP!,f_auto,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2F28b2b8bb-43f0-49ac-8f7d-e28af4bfb7d6_1320x1308.jpeg" data-component-name="Image2ToDOM"><div class="image2-inset"><picture><source type="image/webp" srcset="https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!4dZP!,w_424,c_limit,f_webp,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2F28b2b8bb-43f0-49ac-8f7d-e28af4bfb7d6_1320x1308.jpeg 424w, https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!4dZP!,w_848,c_limit,f_webp,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2F28b2b8bb-43f0-49ac-8f7d-e28af4bfb7d6_1320x1308.jpeg 848w, https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!4dZP!,w_1272,c_limit,f_webp,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2F28b2b8bb-43f0-49ac-8f7d-e28af4bfb7d6_1320x1308.jpeg 1272w, https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!4dZP!,w_1456,c_limit,f_webp,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2F28b2b8bb-43f0-49ac-8f7d-e28af4bfb7d6_1320x1308.jpeg 1456w" sizes="100vw"><img src="https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!4dZP!,w_1456,c_limit,f_auto,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2F28b2b8bb-43f0-49ac-8f7d-e28af4bfb7d6_1320x1308.jpeg" width="1320" height="1308" data-attrs="{&quot;src&quot;:&quot;https://substack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com/public/images/28b2b8bb-43f0-49ac-8f7d-e28af4bfb7d6_1320x1308.jpeg&quot;,&quot;srcNoWatermark&quot;:null,&quot;fullscreen&quot;:null,&quot;imageSize&quot;:null,&quot;height&quot;:1308,&quot;width&quot;:1320,&quot;resizeWidth&quot;:null,&quot;bytes&quot;:208671,&quot;alt&quot;:null,&quot;title&quot;:null,&quot;type&quot;:&quot;image/jpeg&quot;,&quot;href&quot;:null,&quot;belowTheFold&quot;:true,&quot;topImage&quot;:false,&quot;internalRedirect&quot;:&quot;https://www.gadworld.se/i/199829646?img=https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2F28b2b8bb-43f0-49ac-8f7d-e28af4bfb7d6_1320x1308.jpeg&quot;,&quot;isProcessing&quot;:false,&quot;align&quot;:null,&quot;offset&quot;:false}" class="sizing-normal" alt="" srcset="https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!4dZP!,w_424,c_limit,f_auto,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2F28b2b8bb-43f0-49ac-8f7d-e28af4bfb7d6_1320x1308.jpeg 424w, https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!4dZP!,w_848,c_limit,f_auto,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2F28b2b8bb-43f0-49ac-8f7d-e28af4bfb7d6_1320x1308.jpeg 848w, https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!4dZP!,w_1272,c_limit,f_auto,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2F28b2b8bb-43f0-49ac-8f7d-e28af4bfb7d6_1320x1308.jpeg 1272w, https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!4dZP!,w_1456,c_limit,f_auto,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2F28b2b8bb-43f0-49ac-8f7d-e28af4bfb7d6_1320x1308.jpeg 1456w" sizes="100vw" loading="lazy"></picture><div class="image-link-expand"><div class="pencraft pc-display-flex pc-gap-8 pc-reset"><button tabindex="0" type="button" class="pencraft pc-reset pencraft icon-container restack-image"><svg role="img" width="20" height="20" viewBox="0 0 20 20" fill="none" stroke-width="1.5" stroke="var(--color-fg-primary)" stroke-linecap="round" stroke-linejoin="round" xmlns="http://www.w3.org/2000/svg"><g><title></title><path d="M2.53001 7.81595C3.49179 4.73911 6.43281 2.5 9.91173 2.5C13.1684 2.5 15.9537 4.46214 17.0852 7.23684L17.6179 8.67647M17.6179 8.67647L18.5002 4.26471M17.6179 8.67647L13.6473 6.91176M17.4995 12.1841C16.5378 15.2609 13.5967 17.5 10.1178 17.5C6.86118 17.5 4.07589 15.5379 2.94432 12.7632L2.41165 11.3235M2.41165 11.3235L1.5293 15.7353M2.41165 11.3235L6.38224 13.0882"></path></g></svg></button><button tabindex="0" type="button" class="pencraft pc-reset pencraft icon-container view-image"><svg xmlns="http://www.w3.org/2000/svg" width="20" height="20" viewBox="0 0 24 24" fill="none" stroke="currentColor" stroke-width="2" stroke-linecap="round" stroke-linejoin="round" class="lucide lucide-maximize2 lucide-maximize-2"><polyline points="15 3 21 3 21 9"></polyline><polyline points="9 21 3 21 3 15"></polyline><line x1="21" x2="14" y1="3" y2="10"></line><line x1="3" x2="10" y1="21" y2="14"></line></svg></button></div></div></div></a><figcaption class="image-caption">Jag t&#228;nker p&#229; det Hermann Hesse skrev om att vara en o&#228;ndlig m&#229;ngfald. Ett kaos utan fasta konturer. Foto: Anna Branten</figcaption></figure></div><p>Det &#228;r som om tv&#229; parallella livshistorier p&#229;g&#229;r samtidigt inuti mig. I den ena ber&#228;ttelsen var jag lovande. Skapade nytt, s&#229;g m&#246;jligheter, byggde plattformar men blev misslyckad eftersom jag br&#228;nde ut mig, tappade riktning och f&#246;rsvann fr&#229;n flera sammanhang och d&#228;rmed det liv jag trodde att jag skulle leva.</p><p>I den andra, mjukare ber&#228;ttelsen &#228;r jag n&#229;gon som outtr&#246;ttligt f&#246;rs&#246;ker hitta v&#228;gar f&#246;r att kunna g&#246;ra det som k&#228;nns r&#228;tt &#8211; b&#229;de f&#246;r mig sj&#228;lv och v&#228;rlden. N&#229;gon som forts&#228;tter f&#246;rs&#246;ka &#246;verleva p&#229; det enda s&#228;tt jag vet, men som inte l&#228;ngre tror att mer alltid &#228;r b&#228;ttre.</p><div class="preformatted-block" data-component-name="PreformattedTextBlockToDOM"><label class="hide-text" contenteditable="false">Text within this block will maintain its original spacing when published</label><pre class="text"><em>     I sj&#228;lva verket &#228;r n&#228;mligen inte ens det 
     allra mest naiva jag n&#229;gon enhet, utan 
     en o&#228;ndlig m&#229;ngfald, en stj&#228;rnhimmel 
     i sm&#229;tt, ett kaos av former, stadier och 
     tillst&#229;nd, arv och m&#246;jligheter. Och denna 
     &#228;ven bland mycket h&#246;gt st&#229;ende 
     m&#228;nniskor vanliga villfarelse att 
     n&#246;dv&#228;ndigt vilja betrakta sitt kaos som 
     en helhet och tala om sitt jag som om 
     det vore ett alldeles sammansatt fenomen 
     med fasta former och konturer, det tycks 
     i allm&#228;nhet vara ett lika absolut livsbehov 
     f&#246;r folk som luft och f&#246;da.
     &#8211; "St&#228;ppvargen" av Hermann Hesse</em></pre></div><p>D&#228;r finns ocks&#229; en annan insikt. Att det som gick fel &#8211; i rytmen, positionen, relationerna &#8211; kanske inte bara ber&#228;ttar n&#229;got om mig utan ocks&#229; n&#229;got om ett system som gjort sig beroende av m&#228;nniskor som st&#228;ndigt optimerar sig sj&#228;lva.</p><p>Systemen och sammanhangen jag levde i passade inte f&#246;r just mig eftersom jag inte &#228;r byggd f&#246;r den rytmen. Men tack vare att jag levt d&#228;r och sett n&#228;stan allt s&#229; kan jag ocks&#229; befinna mig d&#228;r jag befinner mig just nu. Med styrkan att kliva ur. Med &#246;vertygelse om att det finns ett annat liv n&#229;gon annanstans. Ett jag ser fragment av, som g&#246;r mig lycklig p&#229; ett s&#228;tt som &#228;r helt nytt. </p><p>Frid och en ny slags frihet. Kalla det uppvaknande, &#229;lder eller mod &#8211; jag vet inte och <em>jag bryr mig inte</em>. Jag vill bara forts&#228;tta att existera och bli mer av den jag var t&#228;nkt att vara.</p><div class="captioned-image-container"><figure><a class="image-link image2 is-viewable-img" target="_blank" href="https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!JElu!,f_auto,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2F46edf6e4-a143-4209-9969-fd988e3737ed_1204x1600.jpeg" data-component-name="Image2ToDOM"><div class="image2-inset"><picture><source type="image/webp" srcset="https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!JElu!,w_424,c_limit,f_webp,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2F46edf6e4-a143-4209-9969-fd988e3737ed_1204x1600.jpeg 424w, https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!JElu!,w_848,c_limit,f_webp,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2F46edf6e4-a143-4209-9969-fd988e3737ed_1204x1600.jpeg 848w, https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!JElu!,w_1272,c_limit,f_webp,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2F46edf6e4-a143-4209-9969-fd988e3737ed_1204x1600.jpeg 1272w, https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!JElu!,w_1456,c_limit,f_webp,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2F46edf6e4-a143-4209-9969-fd988e3737ed_1204x1600.jpeg 1456w" sizes="100vw"><img src="https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!JElu!,w_1456,c_limit,f_auto,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2F46edf6e4-a143-4209-9969-fd988e3737ed_1204x1600.jpeg" width="1204" height="1600" data-attrs="{&quot;src&quot;:&quot;https://substack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com/public/images/46edf6e4-a143-4209-9969-fd988e3737ed_1204x1600.jpeg&quot;,&quot;srcNoWatermark&quot;:null,&quot;fullscreen&quot;:null,&quot;imageSize&quot;:null,&quot;height&quot;:1600,&quot;width&quot;:1204,&quot;resizeWidth&quot;:null,&quot;bytes&quot;:164699,&quot;alt&quot;:null,&quot;title&quot;:null,&quot;type&quot;:&quot;image/jpeg&quot;,&quot;href&quot;:null,&quot;belowTheFold&quot;:true,&quot;topImage&quot;:false,&quot;internalRedirect&quot;:&quot;https://www.gadworld.se/i/199829646?img=https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2F46edf6e4-a143-4209-9969-fd988e3737ed_1204x1600.jpeg&quot;,&quot;isProcessing&quot;:false,&quot;align&quot;:null,&quot;offset&quot;:false}" class="sizing-normal" alt="" srcset="https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!JElu!,w_424,c_limit,f_auto,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2F46edf6e4-a143-4209-9969-fd988e3737ed_1204x1600.jpeg 424w, https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!JElu!,w_848,c_limit,f_auto,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2F46edf6e4-a143-4209-9969-fd988e3737ed_1204x1600.jpeg 848w, https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!JElu!,w_1272,c_limit,f_auto,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2F46edf6e4-a143-4209-9969-fd988e3737ed_1204x1600.jpeg 1272w, https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!JElu!,w_1456,c_limit,f_auto,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2F46edf6e4-a143-4209-9969-fd988e3737ed_1204x1600.jpeg 1456w" sizes="100vw" loading="lazy"></picture><div class="image-link-expand"><div class="pencraft pc-display-flex pc-gap-8 pc-reset"><button tabindex="0" type="button" class="pencraft pc-reset pencraft icon-container restack-image"><svg role="img" width="20" height="20" viewBox="0 0 20 20" fill="none" stroke-width="1.5" stroke="var(--color-fg-primary)" stroke-linecap="round" stroke-linejoin="round" xmlns="http://www.w3.org/2000/svg"><g><title></title><path d="M2.53001 7.81595C3.49179 4.73911 6.43281 2.5 9.91173 2.5C13.1684 2.5 15.9537 4.46214 17.0852 7.23684L17.6179 8.67647M17.6179 8.67647L18.5002 4.26471M17.6179 8.67647L13.6473 6.91176M17.4995 12.1841C16.5378 15.2609 13.5967 17.5 10.1178 17.5C6.86118 17.5 4.07589 15.5379 2.94432 12.7632L2.41165 11.3235M2.41165 11.3235L1.5293 15.7353M2.41165 11.3235L6.38224 13.0882"></path></g></svg></button><button tabindex="0" type="button" class="pencraft pc-reset pencraft icon-container view-image"><svg xmlns="http://www.w3.org/2000/svg" width="20" height="20" viewBox="0 0 24 24" fill="none" stroke="currentColor" stroke-width="2" stroke-linecap="round" stroke-linejoin="round" class="lucide lucide-maximize2 lucide-maximize-2"><polyline points="15 3 21 3 21 9"></polyline><polyline points="9 21 3 21 3 15"></polyline><line x1="21" x2="14" y1="3" y2="10"></line><line x1="3" x2="10" y1="21" y2="14"></line></svg></button></div></div></div></a><figcaption class="image-caption">Kanske &#228;r mindre b&#228;ttre. Foto: Anna Branten</figcaption></figure></div><p>Jag ser fler fragment av n&#229;got annat. Solljuset som r&#246;r sig &#246;ver golvet. K&#228;nslor. Ord som kryper fram. Jag vill verkligen inte vara n&#229;gon annanstans &#228;n h&#228;r.</p><p>Men vem &#228;r jag om jag inte l&#228;ngre &#228;r den jag byggde mitt liv kring att vara? N&#228;r upph&#246;r en m&#228;nniska att vara samma m&#228;nniska? Och hur mycket m&#229;ste f&#229; d&#246; f&#246;r att n&#229;got annat ska kunna leva?</p><p>V&#228;rlden g&#246;r det sv&#229;rt att sl&#228;ppa taget. &#214;verallt finns sp&#229;r av den jag var. Versioner av mig sj&#228;lv. Den jag var p&#229; h&#246;gstadiet finns i blickarna fr&#229;n klasskompisar p&#229; Facebook, i mina flyttkartonger ligger mina f&#246;rsta visitkort, i garderoben h&#228;nger kostymer jag aldrig kommer att hitta sammanhang till igen.</p><p><em>Beh&#229;lla eller sl&#228;nga?</em></p><p>Jag vet inte. 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It was built around 1200. Although the medieval mosque was destroyed in wars, much has been rebuilt. Photo: Stefanie Glinski</figcaption></figure></div><p>In 2016, when I was still new to Afghanistan, I went to Herat, the country&#8217;s third largest city after Kabul and Kandahar. (The latter a city in the south, strangely enough considered both a safe haven for gay men and a Taliban stronghold, which I would come to visit against the orders of my Pakistani CEO). </p><p>Here in the west, I found Herat to be a quiet border town near Iran, where the food is sweetened with fresh pomegranate as in its Persian neighbour, and where the women who cover do so in the lighter, patterned Iranian <em>chador</em>, which leaves the face open, rather than in the blue Afghan burqa.</p><div class="captioned-image-container"><figure><a class="image-link image2 is-viewable-img" target="_blank" href="https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!qo-6!,f_auto,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2Fb8b4a787-da68-47c1-904a-2131b3810937_5760x3840.jpeg" data-component-name="Image2ToDOM"><div class="image2-inset image2-full-screen"><picture><source type="image/webp" 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Photo: Stefanie Glinski</figcaption></figure></div><p>I was invited to attend a peace conference. The guest speaker was the French ambassador, among many other international figures. </p><p>I wondered why I was invited at all. A simple General Manager is totally irrelevant compared to these high-profile speakers and attendees, but the flight and hotel were paid for, and off I went. I guess they wanted someone from the &#8220;Kingdom of Netherlands&#8221; on their list &#8211; as was mentioned on my name tag &#8211; to impress the sponsors who were paying for this event.</p><p>The city is home to a magnificent citadel and the amazing Blue Mosque. The visit to the mosque was a must. A cathedral of the Muslim faith.</p><p class="button-wrapper" data-attrs="{&quot;url&quot;:&quot;https://www.gadworld.se/subscribe?&quot;,&quot;text&quot;:&quot;Subscribe now&quot;,&quot;action&quot;:null,&quot;class&quot;:null}" data-component-name="ButtonCreateButton"><a class="button primary" href="https://www.gadworld.se/subscribe?"><span>Subscribe now</span></a></p><div class="captioned-image-container"><figure><a class="image-link image2 is-viewable-img" target="_blank" href="https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!BRPW!,f_auto,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2F1b0758cc-69ae-408e-be25-68f123a8371a_5760x3840.jpeg" data-component-name="Image2ToDOM"><div class="image2-inset image2-full-screen"><picture><source type="image/webp" 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Photo: Stefanie Glinski </figcaption></figure></div><p>I went there with an American who was also invited to the conference and whom I had met at the hotel the day before. He was most likely intelligence of some sort. </p><p>In front of the Blue Mosque, there is a busy park where we wandered around. We were quickly spotted by locals who started to surround us.</p><p>&#8220;This is getting dangerous,&#8221; the American said, as if these normal Afghans going about their normal day were actually a bloodthirsty mob ready to lynch us right there and then.</p><div class="captioned-image-container"><figure><a class="image-link image2 is-viewable-img" target="_blank" href="https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!_WeC!,f_auto,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2Fabc131b9-ced2-431d-b87e-1f60dfb37b7c_5760x3840.jpeg" data-component-name="Image2ToDOM"><div class="image2-inset image2-full-screen"><picture><source type="image/webp" srcset="https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!_WeC!,w_424,c_limit,f_webp,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2Fabc131b9-ced2-431d-b87e-1f60dfb37b7c_5760x3840.jpeg 424w, 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Photo: Stefanie Glinski</figcaption></figure></div><p>He disappeared, leaving me with approximately thirty men around me. And what did I know? I wasn&#8217;t the expert, but looking into their eyes, I saw only smiles. </p><p>&#8220;Picture, picture!&#8221; they shouted, and I had to oblige as they all wanted a photo of me with every single one of them on their smartphones.</p><div class="captioned-image-container"><figure><a class="image-link image2" target="_blank" href="https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!DQ36!,f_auto,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2F897a2b3c-c5bf-4ee4-93d0-3127ba9715ca_960x183.png" data-component-name="Image2ToDOM"><div class="image2-inset"><picture><source type="image/webp" srcset="https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!DQ36!,w_424,c_limit,f_webp,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2F897a2b3c-c5bf-4ee4-93d0-3127ba9715ca_960x183.png 424w, https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!DQ36!,w_848,c_limit,f_webp,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2F897a2b3c-c5bf-4ee4-93d0-3127ba9715ca_960x183.png 848w, https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!DQ36!,w_1272,c_limit,f_webp,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2F897a2b3c-c5bf-4ee4-93d0-3127ba9715ca_960x183.png 1272w, https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!DQ36!,w_1456,c_limit,f_webp,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2F897a2b3c-c5bf-4ee4-93d0-3127ba9715ca_960x183.png 1456w" sizes="100vw"><img src="https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!DQ36!,w_1456,c_limit,f_auto,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2F897a2b3c-c5bf-4ee4-93d0-3127ba9715ca_960x183.png" width="960" height="183" data-attrs="{&quot;src&quot;:&quot;https://substack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com/public/images/897a2b3c-c5bf-4ee4-93d0-3127ba9715ca_960x183.png&quot;,&quot;srcNoWatermark&quot;:null,&quot;fullscreen&quot;:null,&quot;imageSize&quot;:null,&quot;height&quot;:183,&quot;width&quot;:960,&quot;resizeWidth&quot;:null,&quot;bytes&quot;:63437,&quot;alt&quot;:null,&quot;title&quot;:null,&quot;type&quot;:&quot;image/png&quot;,&quot;href&quot;:null,&quot;belowTheFold&quot;:true,&quot;topImage&quot;:false,&quot;internalRedirect&quot;:&quot;https://www.gadworld.se/i/196752499?img=https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2F1804f3c6-a427-41af-bbc0-8cedb6d69e17_960x540.png&quot;,&quot;isProcessing&quot;:false,&quot;align&quot;:null,&quot;offset&quot;:false}" class="sizing-normal" alt="" srcset="https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!DQ36!,w_424,c_limit,f_auto,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2F897a2b3c-c5bf-4ee4-93d0-3127ba9715ca_960x183.png 424w, https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!DQ36!,w_848,c_limit,f_auto,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2F897a2b3c-c5bf-4ee4-93d0-3127ba9715ca_960x183.png 848w, https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!DQ36!,w_1272,c_limit,f_auto,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2F897a2b3c-c5bf-4ee4-93d0-3127ba9715ca_960x183.png 1272w, https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!DQ36!,w_1456,c_limit,f_auto,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2F897a2b3c-c5bf-4ee4-93d0-3127ba9715ca_960x183.png 1456w" sizes="100vw" loading="lazy"></picture><div></div></div></a></figure></div><p>One young man asked if I wanted to go below the Blue Mosque. Again, I thought about the American and worried a bit about getting lynched, but curiosity got the better of me.</p><p>Five minutes later, I was under the mosque. Sunlight streamed from small openings in the domed ceiling high above, dust particles floating in the ancient air. Compressed soil keeps the room at a constant temperature. </p><p>Two men were sitting on the floor, working by hand with what looked like antique tools, still there from medieval times, shaping pieces of tile used to renovate the Blue Mosque.</p><div class="captioned-image-container"><figure><a class="image-link image2 is-viewable-img" target="_blank" href="https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!ru68!,f_auto,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2F173889ab-4cbb-448d-84c6-4f892148f058_5066x3377.jpeg" data-component-name="Image2ToDOM"><div class="image2-inset image2-full-screen"><picture><source type="image/webp" srcset="https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!ru68!,w_424,c_limit,f_webp,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2F173889ab-4cbb-448d-84c6-4f892148f058_5066x3377.jpeg 424w, 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Photo: Stefanie Glinski</figcaption></figure></div><p>I felt honoured to be allowed into this secret place, until one of the men pointed to the tip box placed well in view next to the door. Realising I wasn&#8217;t that special after all, and that many tourists must be led down the narrow staircase, it was still totally worthwhile. </p><p>I stepped out into the autumn sun, feeling alive. </p><p>The mosque itself was a stunning sight, with colourful mosaic tiles and a very impressive, humungous courtyard of white marble. Somehow, the men lying there resting seemed to have found the peace the conference was only talking about behind fortified gates.</p><div class="captioned-image-container"><figure><a class="image-link image2 is-viewable-img" target="_blank" href="https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!__Ob!,f_auto,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2F68c6a103-a096-4886-a5f6-fd439e676ffb_5230x3487.jpeg" data-component-name="Image2ToDOM"><div class="image2-inset image2-full-screen"><picture><source type="image/webp" srcset="https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!__Ob!,w_424,c_limit,f_webp,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2F68c6a103-a096-4886-a5f6-fd439e676ffb_5230x3487.jpeg 424w, 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Photo: Stefanie Glinski</figcaption></figure></div><p>It reminded me of the acronym NATO. In Kabul it meant &#8220;No Action Talk Only&#8221;.</p><p>(When, some years later, I told the Taliban Deputy Minister of Foreign Affairs, Mr. Stanikzai, at a meeting, he laughed out loud and had to write it down, so much he liked it.)</p><p>What I do remember from all the talking is that the French ambassador, during his speech, said quite clearly that the Taliban are not terrorists, they are freedom fighters as far as he is concerned. </p><div class="captioned-image-container"><figure><a class="image-link image2 is-viewable-img" target="_blank" href="https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!ZWnF!,f_auto,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2Fbc388c47-2b92-497b-bc01-ccc0edbd75c6_5335x3557.jpeg" data-component-name="Image2ToDOM"><div class="image2-inset image2-full-screen"><picture><source type="image/webp" 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Photo: Stefanie Glinski </figcaption></figure></div><p>I thought it was rather courageous of the ambassador to say something like that. Words can easily be interpreted differently, and diplomacy is a fine line.</p><p>It reminded me of Nelson Mandela. During his first visit to the United States after his release from prison in 1990, he was questioned by Ted Koppel on ABC&#8217;s <em>Nightline</em> about his ties to Yasser Arafat, Muammar Gaddafi and Fidel Castro &#8211; leaders who had supported the struggle against apartheid. Yet Mandela&#8217;s defence of those relationships was an oxymoron, as far as the journalist was concerned.  </p><p>Mandela&#8217;s answer was remarkable: &#8220;One of the mistakes which some political analysts make is to think that their enemies should be our enemies.&#8221;</p><div class="subscription-widget-wrap-editor" data-attrs="{&quot;url&quot;:&quot;https://www.gadworld.se/subscribe?&quot;,&quot;text&quot;:&quot;Subscribe&quot;,&quot;language&quot;:&quot;en&quot;}" data-component-name="SubscribeWidgetToDOM"><div class="subscription-widget show-subscribe"><div class="preamble"><p class="cta-caption">This Substack is reader-supported. 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shifting tides of power.</p><p><strong>The Graveyard of Empires.</strong> Afghanistan&#8217;s history has been shaped by the country&#8217;s strategic location, which has led to repeated attempts at conquest by Alexander the Great, the Mongol Empire, the British Empire, the Soviet Union, and the United States &#8211; all of whom eventually withdrew in the face of fierce Afghan resistance.</p><p><strong>Decades of Invasion.</strong> In 1979, as the Cold War intensified, the Soviet Union invaded Afghanistan. It sparked a decade-long war that drove millions of people from their homes. After the Soviet withdrawal in 1989, the power vacuum led to a brutal civil war between rival factions.</p><p><strong>The Taliban Cycles.</strong> The Taliban first seized power in 1996 and imposed strict rule until 2001. After the September 11 attacks in the United States &#8211; in which no Afghans were involved &#8211; a US-led coalition invaded and remained in the country for 20 years. In August 2021, as international forces withdrew, the Taliban returned to power.</p><p><strong>The Human Cost.</strong> After more than 40 years of almost uninterrupted conflict, the Afghan people remain the primary victims. They have been denied the opportunity to develop their nation in lasting peace, leading to one of the world&#8217;s largest displaced populations and a devastating humanitarian crisis.</p><p><strong>Education and the Future.</strong> Today, millions of Afghan children are out of school, while women face severe restrictions on their fundamental rights to work and study &#8211; casting a shadow over the future of an entire generation.</p><p><strong>Cultural Resilience.</strong> Despite the destruction of cultural heritage such as the Buddhas of Bamiyan, Afghanistan remains a cradle of Silk Road history, where poetry, craftsmanship, and a deeply rooted sense of honour continue to shape the soul of the nation.</p><div class="captioned-image-container"><figure><a class="image-link image2 is-viewable-img" target="_blank" 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Map: OpenStreetMap</figcaption></figure></div></div>]]></content:encoded></item><item><title><![CDATA[En hemlig plats i gränsstaden]]></title><description><![CDATA[POSTCARD | AFGHANISTAN #2]]></description><link>https://www.gadworld.se/p/en-hemlig-plats-i-gransstaden</link><guid isPermaLink="false">https://www.gadworld.se/p/en-hemlig-plats-i-gransstaden</guid><dc:creator><![CDATA[Timotheus Swagemakers]]></dc:creator><pubDate>Tue, 02 Jun 2026 17:04:59 GMT</pubDate><enclosure url="https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!euPp!,f_auto,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2Fac8548e8-1e50-43bb-a104-083b7947adc4_5626x3751.jpeg" length="0" type="image/jpeg"/><content:encoded><![CDATA[<div class="captioned-image-container"><figure><a class="image-link image2 is-viewable-img" target="_blank" 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Den byggdes omkring &#229;r 1200. &#196;ven om den medeltida mosk&#233;n f&#246;rst&#246;rdes i krig har mycket &#229;teruppbyggts. Foto: Stefanie Glinski</figcaption></figure></div><p>N&#228;r jag fortfarande var ny i Afghanistan, &#229;r 2016, bes&#246;kte jag Herat, som &#228;r&nbsp;landets tredje st&#246;rsta stad efter Kabul och Kandahar. (Den sistn&#228;mnda &#228;r en stad i s&#246;der som m&#228;rkligt nog anses vara b&#229;de en fristad f&#246;r homosexuella m&#228;n och ett starkt talibanf&#228;ste. Jag skulle komma att bes&#246;ka den staden ocks&#229;, trots att min pakistanske vd uttryckligen f&#246;rbjudit det.)</p><p>Herat ligger i v&#228;st och &#228;r en lugn gr&#228;nsstad till Iran. Maten s&#246;tas med f&#228;rska granat&#228;pplen, precis som hos den persiska grannen, och de kvinnor som t&#228;cker sig g&#246;r det i den l&#228;ttare, m&#246;nstrade iranska <em>chador</em> som l&#228;mnar ansiktet fritt, snarare &#228;n i den bl&#229; afghanska burkan.</p><div class="captioned-image-container"><figure><a class="image-link image2 is-viewable-img" target="_blank" href="https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!qo-6!,f_auto,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2Fb8b4a787-da68-47c1-904a-2131b3810937_5760x3840.jpeg" data-component-name="Image2ToDOM"><div class="image2-inset image2-full-screen"><picture><source type="image/webp" srcset="https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!qo-6!,w_424,c_limit,f_webp,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2Fb8b4a787-da68-47c1-904a-2131b3810937_5760x3840.jpeg 424w, 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Foto: Stefanie Glinski</figcaption></figure></div><p>Jag var inbjuden att delta i en fredskonferens. Den franske ambassad&#246;ren var g&#228;sttalare, tillsammans med m&#229;nga andra internationella profiler. </p><p>Jag undrade varf&#246;r jag &#246;verhuvudtaget blivit inbjuden. En enkel hotellmanager &#228;r helt irrelevant j&#228;mf&#246;rt med dessa h&#246;gprofilerade talare och deltagare, men de betalade f&#246;r flyg och hotell, s&#229; jag &#229;kte. Jag antar att de ville ha n&#229;gon fr&#229;n &#8221;Kingdom of the Netherlands&#8221; p&#229; sin lista &#8211; som det stod p&#229; min namnskylt &#8211; f&#246;r att imponera p&#229; sponsorerna som betalade f&#246;r evenemanget.</p><p>Staden &#228;r hem &#229;t ett magnifikt citadell och den fantastiska Bl&#229; mosk&#233;n. Ett bes&#246;k i mosk&#233;n var ett m&#229;ste. En katedral f&#246;r den muslimska tron.</p><p class="button-wrapper" data-attrs="{&quot;url&quot;:&quot;https://www.gadworld.se/subscribe?&quot;,&quot;text&quot;:&quot;Subscribe now&quot;,&quot;action&quot;:null,&quot;class&quot;:null}" data-component-name="ButtonCreateButton"><a class="button primary" href="https://www.gadworld.se/subscribe?"><span>Subscribe now</span></a></p><div class="captioned-image-container"><figure><a class="image-link image2 is-viewable-img" target="_blank" href="https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!UmXz!,f_auto,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2F7726143d-d40d-4a73-bb39-a4ab3dbfe24d_5760x3840.jpeg" data-component-name="Image2ToDOM"><div class="image2-inset image2-full-screen"><picture><source type="image/webp" 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Foto: Stefanie Glinski</figcaption></figure></div><p>Jag gick dit tillsammans med en amerikan som ocks&#229; var inbjuden till konferensen och som jag hade tr&#228;ffat p&#229; hotellet dagen innan. Han tillh&#246;rde med st&#246;rsta sannolikhet n&#229;gon form av underr&#228;ttelsetj&#228;nst.</p><p>Framf&#246;r den Bl&#229; mosk&#233;n ligger en park d&#228;r det s&#228;ljs saker, d&#228;r vi promenerade runt. Vi blev snabbt uppt&#228;ckta av m&#228;nniskorna d&#228;r, som b&#246;rjade samlas runt oss.</p><p>&#8211; Det h&#228;r b&#246;rjar bli farligt, sa amerikanen, som om dessa vanliga afghaner som gjorde sina vardags&#228;renden i sj&#228;lva verket var en blodt&#246;rstig mobb, redo att lyncha oss d&#228;r och d&#229;.</p><div class="captioned-image-container"><figure><a class="image-link image2 is-viewable-img" target="_blank" href="https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!_WeC!,f_auto,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2Fabc131b9-ced2-431d-b87e-1f60dfb37b7c_5760x3840.jpeg" data-component-name="Image2ToDOM"><div class="image2-inset image2-full-screen"><picture><source type="image/webp" srcset="https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!_WeC!,w_424,c_limit,f_webp,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2Fabc131b9-ced2-431d-b87e-1f60dfb37b7c_5760x3840.jpeg 424w, 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Foto: Stefanie Glinski</figcaption></figure></div><p>Han f&#246;rsvann och l&#228;mnade mig ensam med ett trettiotal m&#228;n omkring mig. Och vad visste jag? Jag &#228;r inte experten, men n&#228;r jag s&#229;g dem i &#246;gonen m&#246;ttes jag bara av leenden.</p><p>&#8211; <em>Picture, picture!</em> ropade de, och jag fick sn&#228;llt st&#228;lla upp eftersom varenda en ville ha en bild ihop med mig p&#229; sina smartphones.</p><div class="captioned-image-container"><figure><a class="image-link image2 is-viewable-img" target="_blank" href="https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!8T9o!,f_auto,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2Ffbd8a832-ba97-4fa4-b6c4-11b82258c974_960x252.png" data-component-name="Image2ToDOM"><div class="image2-inset"><picture><source type="image/webp" srcset="https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!8T9o!,w_424,c_limit,f_webp,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2Ffbd8a832-ba97-4fa4-b6c4-11b82258c974_960x252.png 424w, 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Jag t&#228;nkte p&#229; amerikanen igen och oroade mig lite f&#246;r att bli lynchad, men nyfikenheten vann &#246;ver mig. </p><p>Fem minuter senare var jag under mosk&#233;n. Solljus str&#246;mmade in fr&#229;n sm&#229; &#246;ppningar i det kupolformade taket h&#246;gt ovanf&#246;r, dammkorn sv&#228;vade i den ur&#229;ldriga luften. Packad jord h&#229;ller rummet vid en konstant temperatur.</p><p>Tv&#229; m&#228;n satt p&#229; golvet och arbetade f&#246;r hand, med vad som s&#229;g ut som antika verktyg som hade l&#228;mnats kvar sedan medeltiden, och formade kakelbitar till att renovera den Bl&#229; mosk&#233;n.</p><div class="captioned-image-container"><figure><a class="image-link image2 is-viewable-img" target="_blank" href="https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!ru68!,f_auto,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2F173889ab-4cbb-448d-84c6-4f892148f058_5066x3377.jpeg" data-component-name="Image2ToDOM"><div class="image2-inset image2-full-screen"><picture><source type="image/webp" srcset="https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!ru68!,w_424,c_limit,f_webp,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2F173889ab-4cbb-448d-84c6-4f892148f058_5066x3377.jpeg 424w, 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P&#229; n&#229;got s&#228;tt verkade m&#228;nnen som l&#229;g d&#228;r och vilade ha funnit den fred som man p&#229; konferensen bara pratade om bakom f&#246;rst&#228;rkta portar.</p><div class="captioned-image-container"><figure><a class="image-link image2 is-viewable-img" target="_blank" href="https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!__Ob!,f_auto,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2F68c6a103-a096-4886-a5f6-fd439e676ffb_5230x3487.jpeg" data-component-name="Image2ToDOM"><div class="image2-inset image2-full-screen"><picture><source type="image/webp" srcset="https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!__Ob!,w_424,c_limit,f_webp,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2F68c6a103-a096-4886-a5f6-fd439e676ffb_5230x3487.jpeg 424w, 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Foto: Stefanie Glinski</figcaption></figure></div><p>Det fick mig att t&#228;nka p&#229; akronymen NATO. I Kabul betydde den &#8221;No Action Talk Only&#8221;.</p><p>(N&#228;r jag n&#229;gra &#229;r senare ber&#228;ttade det f&#246;r talibanernas vice utrikesminister, Mr. Stanikzai, under ett m&#246;te, skrattade han h&#246;gt och var tvungen att skriva ner det, s&#229; mycket tyckte han om det.)</p><p>Det jag minns fr&#229;n allt pratande &#228;r att den franske ambassad&#246;ren, under sitt tal, konstaterade krasst att talibanerna inte var terrorister &#8211; s&#229;vitt han ans&#229;g var de frihetsk&#228;mpar.</p><div class="captioned-image-container"><figure><a class="image-link image2 is-viewable-img" target="_blank" href="https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!8rG8!,f_auto,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2F22f1ed7a-26e1-447f-ad31-dc4487fd22d0_5335x3557.jpeg" data-component-name="Image2ToDOM"><div class="image2-inset image2-full-screen"><picture><source type="image/webp" 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Foto: Stefanie Glinski</figcaption></figure></div><p>Jag tyckte det var modigt av ambassad&#246;ren att uttrycka sig s&#229;. Ord kan l&#228;tt tolkas p&#229; olika s&#228;tt, och diplomati &#228;r en fin balansg&#229;ng.</p><p>Det p&#229;minde mig om Nelson Mandela. Under hans f&#246;rsta bes&#246;k i USA efter frigivningen fr&#229;n f&#228;ngelset 1990, blev han utfr&#229;gad av Ted Koppel i ABC:s <em>Nightline</em> om sina band till Jasser Arafat, Muammar Gaddafi och Fidel Castro &#8211; ledare som hade st&#246;tt kampen mot apartheid. Att Mandela f&#246;rsvarade dessa relationer var, i journalistens &#246;gon, en oxymoron.</p><p>Mandelas svar var anm&#228;rkningsv&#228;rt: &#8221;Ett av de misstag som vissa politiska analytiker g&#246;r &#228;r att tro att deras fiender m&#229;ste vara v&#229;ra fiender.&#8221;</p><div class="subscription-widget-wrap-editor" data-attrs="{&quot;url&quot;:&quot;https://www.gadworld.se/subscribe?&quot;,&quot;text&quot;:&quot;Subscribe&quot;,&quot;language&quot;:&quot;en&quot;}" data-component-name="SubscribeWidgetToDOM"><div class="subscription-widget show-subscribe"><div class="preamble"><p class="cta-caption">This Substack is reader-supported. 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stroke-width="2" stroke-linecap="round" stroke-linejoin="round" class="lucide lucide-maximize2 lucide-maximize-2"><polyline points="15 3 21 3 21 9"></polyline><polyline points="9 21 3 21 3 15"></polyline><line x1="21" x2="14" y1="3" y2="10"></line><line x1="3" x2="10" y1="21" y2="14"></line></svg></button></div></div></div></a></figure></div><h3>Vykort fr&#229;n Afghanistan</h3><div class="callout-block" data-callout="true"><p>Genom hotellmanagern <strong>Timotheus Swagemakers</strong> &#246;gon ger denna serie ber&#228;ttelser en s&#228;llsynt inblick i n&#229;gra av Afghanistans dolda v&#228;rldar.</p><p><strong>Livet.</strong> Medan nyhetsrubrikerna l&#228;nge har definierat Afghanistan utifr&#229;n landets &#228;rr, blickar dessa historier bortom dem &#8211; mot det ov&#228;ntat ljusa i vardagen och m&#246;ten d&#228;r livet forts&#228;tter, osynligt f&#246;r omv&#228;rlden.</p><p><strong>V&#228;rdighet.</strong> Bortom ber&#228;ttelsen om eviga krig finns djup g&#228;stv&#228;nlighet, ur&#229;ldriga traditioner och ett folk vars v&#228;rdighet inte l&#229;ter sig rubbas av maktens skiftningar.</p><p><strong>Imperiernas kyrkog&#229;rd.</strong> Afghanistans historia har formats av landets strategiska l&#228;ge, vilket lett till upprepade f&#246;rs&#246;k till er&#246;vring av Alexander den Store, mongolv&#228;ldet, det brittiska imperiet, Sovjetunionen och USA &#8211; som alla till slut drog sig tillbaka inf&#246;r det h&#229;rda afghanska motst&#229;ndet.</p><p><strong>Decennier av invasion.</strong> &#197;r 1979, n&#228;r kalla kriget intensifierades, invaderade Sovjetunionen Afghanistan. Det utl&#246;ste ett tio&#229;rigt krig som drev miljoner m&#228;nniskor p&#229; flykt. Efter det sovjetiska tillbakadragandet 1989 ledde maktvakuumet till ett brutalt inb&#246;rdeskrig mellan rivaliserande fraktioner.</p><p><strong>Talibanernas cykler.</strong> Talibanerna tog makten f&#246;rsta g&#229;ngen 1996 och inf&#246;rde ett strikt styre fram till 2001. Efter 11 september-attackerna i USA &#8211; d&#228;r inga afghaner var inblandade &#8211; invaderade en USA-ledd koalition och stannade i landet i 20 &#229;r. I augusti 2021, n&#228;r de internationella styrkorna drog sig tillbaka, &#229;terv&#228;nde talibanerna till makten.</p><p><strong>Det m&#228;nskliga priset.</strong> Efter &#246;ver 40 &#229;r av n&#228;stintill oavbruten konflikt &#228;r det afghanska folket fortfarande de fr&#228;msta offren. De har f&#246;rv&#228;grats m&#246;jligheten att utveckla sin nation i varaktig fred, vilket har lett till en av v&#228;rldens st&#246;rsta flyktingpopulationer och en f&#246;r&#246;dande humanit&#228;r kris.</p><p><strong>Utbildning och framtid.</strong> Idag g&#229;r miljontals afghanska barn inte i skolan, samtidigt som kvinnor m&#246;ter h&#229;rda restriktioner f&#246;r sina grundl&#228;ggande r&#228;ttigheter att arbeta och studera &#8211; n&#229;got som kastar en skugga &#246;ver en hel generations framtid.</p><p><strong>Kulturell motst&#229;ndskraft.</strong> Trots f&#246;rst&#246;relsen av kulturarv som Buddhastatyerna i Bamiyan f&#246;rblir Afghanistan en vagga f&#246;r Sidenv&#228;gens historia, d&#228;r poesi, hantverk och en djupt rotad k&#228;nsla f&#246;r heder forts&#228;tter att forma nationens sj&#228;l.</p><div class="captioned-image-container"><figure><a class="image-link image2 is-viewable-img" target="_blank" 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Karta: OpenStreetMap</figcaption></figure></div></div>]]></content:encoded></item><item><title><![CDATA[Flykten från Sudan: "De sköt min bebis"]]></title><description><![CDATA[FRONT | TCHAD. De har sett halshuggningar, v&#229;ldt&#228;kter och avr&#228;ttningar av barn. De flyr f&#246;r sina liv. P&#229; v&#228;gen fr&#229;gar m&#228;n med vapen vilken stam de tillh&#246;r. F&#229; klarar sig levande till gr&#228;nsen.]]></description><link>https://www.gadworld.se/p/flykten-fran-sudan-de-skot-min-bebis</link><guid isPermaLink="false">https://www.gadworld.se/p/flykten-fran-sudan-de-skot-min-bebis</guid><dc:creator><![CDATA[Magda Gad]]></dc:creator><pubDate>Sat, 30 May 2026 12:10:22 GMT</pubDate><enclosure url="https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!n3z-!,f_auto,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2F5ab9137f-50c6-4021-b4cf-ea870631041c_2000x1334.jpeg" length="0" type="image/jpeg"/><content:encoded><![CDATA[<div class="captioned-image-container"><figure><a class="image-link image2 is-viewable-img" target="_blank" href="https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!n3z-!,f_auto,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2F5ab9137f-50c6-4021-b4cf-ea870631041c_2000x1334.jpeg" data-component-name="Image2ToDOM"><div class="image2-inset 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Hon gr&#229;ter n&#228;r hon t&#228;nker p&#229; dem. Foto: Niclas Hammarstr&#246;m</figcaption></figure></div><p>Den gulbruna sanden m&#228;ttar morgonluften, som redan &#228;r het. N&#228;r solen g&#229;r upp och letar sig genom dammet blir allt till ett sv&#228;vande dis. En bedr&#228;gligt vacker horisont mitt i fasan. De borde ha kommit nu. Men mellan Tin&#233; i Tchad och Tina i Sudan &#228;r &#246;knen n&#228;stan tom. Bara ibland bryts stillheten av det dova knakandet fr&#229;n tr&#228;k&#228;rror som rullar &#246;ver gr&#228;nsen, dragna av p&#229;piskade h&#228;star och &#229;snor, lastade med m&#228;nniskor vars utmattning verkar h&#228;mtad ur en annan tid.</p><p>Det &#228;r i b&#246;rjan av november 2025 och det har g&#229;tt tv&#229; veckor sedan staden al-Fashir i Darfur, 30 mil h&#228;rifr&#229;n, f&#246;ll till de paramilit&#228;ra styrkorna Rapid Support Forces, RSF, som beg&#229;r <a href="https://2021-2025.state.gov/genocide-determination-in-sudan-and-imposing-accountability-measures/">folkmord</a> i Darfur. </p><p>RSF bel&#228;grade staden i arton m&#229;nader. Gr&#228;vde jordvallar runt den f&#246;r att m&#228;nniskorna inte skulle kunna ta sig ut. Hindrade allt fr&#229;n att komma in, f&#246;rutom de urskillningsl&#246;sa bomberna. </p><p>Som inringningen av Stalingrad. Men den varade i tv&#229; m&#229;nader. 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De har flytt fr&#229;n en plats d&#228;r lik legat p&#229; gatorna i dagar, veckor, &#228;ven &#229;r. Foto: Niclas Hammarstr&#246;m</figcaption></figure></div><p>Omkring 260 000 m&#228;nniskor har varit inst&#228;ngda i al-Fashir och tvingats &#228;ta l&#246;v och djurfoder, tryckt sig mot marken under konstant beskjutning och sett staden f&#246;rvandlas till ruiner. </p><p>FN varnade l&#228;nge f&#246;r att n&#229;got &#228;nnu v&#228;rre kommer h&#228;nda n&#228;r RSF intar staden. Nu har den dagen kommit och hj&#228;lporganisationer v&#228;ntar vid gr&#228;nsen p&#229; att flyktingarna ska str&#246;mma in f&#246;r att f&#229; mat och skydd. </p><p>Men bara n&#229;gra tusen n&#229;r fram. </p><p>Resten &#228;r som uppslukade av &#246;knen.</p><p></p><p class="button-wrapper" data-attrs="{&quot;url&quot;:&quot;https://www.gadworld.se/subscribe?&quot;,&quot;text&quot;:&quot;Subscribe now&quot;,&quot;action&quot;:null,&quot;class&quot;:null}" data-component-name="ButtonCreateButton"><a class="button primary" href="https://www.gadworld.se/subscribe?"><span>Subscribe now</span></a></p><p></p><div class="captioned-image-container"><figure><a class="image-link image2 is-viewable-img" target="_blank" href="https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!2X_p!,f_auto,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2F826b45ab-ffdc-49f8-bbde-d1e7c98de1e1_2000x1334.jpeg" data-component-name="Image2ToDOM"><div class="image2-inset 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M&#229;nga sover under bar himmel. Foto: Niclas Hammarstr&#246;m</figcaption></figure></div><p>Samtidigt dyker sp&#229;ren efter de f&#246;rsvunna upp. Men inte i &#246;knen, utan <a href="https://www.gadworld.se/p/vardagens-tystnad-fran-forintelsen">i satellitbilder</a>. </p><p>F&#246;r f&#246;rsta g&#229;ngen kan forskare se blod p&#229; marken fr&#229;n rymden. Genom att studera bilderna kan de f&#246;lja hur RSF samlar ihop kroppar i h&#246;gar. Eldar upp dem. Gr&#228;ver ner dem.</p><p>De varnar f&#246;r p&#229;g&#229;ende massakrer. </p><p>Det kommer en uppskattning om att <a href="https://www.theguardian.com/global-development/2025/dec/05/rsf-massacres-sudanese-city-el-fasher-slaughterhouse-satellite-images">150 000</a> av de 260 000 m&#228;nniskorna &#228;r f&#246;rsvunna. 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Foto: Niclas Hammarstr&#246;m</figcaption></figure></div><p>Till l&#228;gret Oure Cassoni har 17-&#229;riga Faiza Abdullah Bashar kommit. Hon skymmer sig f&#246;r solen under ett tr&#228;d. </p><p>Efter flykten har hon inte kunnat sova. </p><p>Med henne finns en av hennes storebr&#246;der, som hela tiden fr&#229;gar m&#228;nniskor runt dem:</p><p>&#8211; Var &#228;r min mamma? Var &#228;r min pappa?</p><p>Faiza s&#228;ger att han &#228;r traumatiserad. Att han inte l&#228;ngre &#228;r riktig i huvudet. </p><p>De s&#229;g b&#229;da n&#228;r deras f&#246;r&#228;ldrar d&#246;dades. Faizas man d&#246;dades samtidigt. Och hennes en m&#229;nad gamla son. </p><p>Hon bar honom p&#229; ryggen n&#228;r skottet kom.</p><p>&#8211; De sa &#229;t oss att sitta ner p&#229; marken. Sedan sa de &#229;t oss att st&#229; upp. D&#229; sk&#246;t de mot oss.</p><div class="captioned-image-container"><figure><a class="image-link image2" target="_blank" href="https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!UrYM!,f_auto,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2Fb2596ff5-ad92-4950-93e5-9ca31383eb2d_960x163.png" data-component-name="Image2ToDOM"><div class="image2-inset"><picture><source type="image/webp" srcset="https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!UrYM!,w_424,c_limit,f_webp,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2Fb2596ff5-ad92-4950-93e5-9ca31383eb2d_960x163.png 424w, https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!UrYM!,w_848,c_limit,f_webp,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2Fb2596ff5-ad92-4950-93e5-9ca31383eb2d_960x163.png 848w, https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!UrYM!,w_1272,c_limit,f_webp,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2Fb2596ff5-ad92-4950-93e5-9ca31383eb2d_960x163.png 1272w, https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!UrYM!,w_1456,c_limit,f_webp,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2Fb2596ff5-ad92-4950-93e5-9ca31383eb2d_960x163.png 1456w" sizes="100vw"><img src="https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!UrYM!,w_1456,c_limit,f_auto,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2Fb2596ff5-ad92-4950-93e5-9ca31383eb2d_960x163.png" width="960" height="163" data-attrs="{&quot;src&quot;:&quot;https://substack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com/public/images/b2596ff5-ad92-4950-93e5-9ca31383eb2d_960x163.png&quot;,&quot;srcNoWatermark&quot;:null,&quot;fullscreen&quot;:null,&quot;imageSize&quot;:null,&quot;height&quot;:163,&quot;width&quot;:960,&quot;resizeWidth&quot;:null,&quot;bytes&quot;:55307,&quot;alt&quot;:null,&quot;title&quot;:null,&quot;type&quot;:&quot;image/png&quot;,&quot;href&quot;:null,&quot;belowTheFold&quot;:true,&quot;topImage&quot;:false,&quot;internalRedirect&quot;:&quot;https://www.gadworld.se/i/199859169?img=https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2F85ce2ed5-f2f4-4b04-90d6-0c06f795bfac_960x540.png&quot;,&quot;isProcessing&quot;:false,&quot;align&quot;:null,&quot;offset&quot;:false}" class="sizing-normal" alt="" srcset="https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!UrYM!,w_424,c_limit,f_auto,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2Fb2596ff5-ad92-4950-93e5-9ca31383eb2d_960x163.png 424w, https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!UrYM!,w_848,c_limit,f_auto,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2Fb2596ff5-ad92-4950-93e5-9ca31383eb2d_960x163.png 848w, https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!UrYM!,w_1272,c_limit,f_auto,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2Fb2596ff5-ad92-4950-93e5-9ca31383eb2d_960x163.png 1272w, https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!UrYM!,w_1456,c_limit,f_auto,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2Fb2596ff5-ad92-4950-93e5-9ca31383eb2d_960x163.png 1456w" sizes="100vw" loading="lazy"></picture><div></div></div></a></figure></div><p>Bara Faiza och hennes storebr&#246;der &#246;verlevde. F&#246;r att de sprang.</p><p>&#8211; Vi har inte f&#229;tt n&#229;gon hj&#228;lp alls h&#228;r. Jag &#228;r v&#228;ldigt ledsen. Ibland vill mina br&#246;der inte ens &#228;ta f&#246;r att de m&#229;r s&#229; d&#229;ligt. Vi l&#228;mnade allt. V&#229;ra f&#246;r&#228;ldrar och allt vi hade.</p><p>Hon s&#228;tter ord p&#229; folkmordets logik.</p><p>&#8211; De g&#246;r s&#229; h&#228;r f&#246;r att vi &#228;r zaghawa. De d&#246;dar zaghawa.</p><div class="captioned-image-container"><figure><a class="image-link image2 is-viewable-img" target="_blank" href="https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!Y1XE!,f_auto,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2F9d2f53a5-8507-4fbb-8b60-b74d3c7710ab_8192x5464.jpeg" data-component-name="Image2ToDOM"><div class="image2-inset image2-full-screen"><picture><source type="image/webp" srcset="https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!Y1XE!,w_424,c_limit,f_webp,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2F9d2f53a5-8507-4fbb-8b60-b74d3c7710ab_8192x5464.jpeg 424w, https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!Y1XE!,w_848,c_limit,f_webp,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2F9d2f53a5-8507-4fbb-8b60-b74d3c7710ab_8192x5464.jpeg 848w, https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!Y1XE!,w_1272,c_limit,f_webp,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2F9d2f53a5-8507-4fbb-8b60-b74d3c7710ab_8192x5464.jpeg 1272w, https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!Y1XE!,w_1456,c_limit,f_webp,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2F9d2f53a5-8507-4fbb-8b60-b74d3c7710ab_8192x5464.jpeg 1456w" sizes="100vw"><img src="https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!Y1XE!,w_5760,c_limit,f_auto,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2F9d2f53a5-8507-4fbb-8b60-b74d3c7710ab_8192x5464.jpeg" data-attrs="{&quot;src&quot;:&quot;https://substack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com/public/images/9d2f53a5-8507-4fbb-8b60-b74d3c7710ab_8192x5464.jpeg&quot;,&quot;srcNoWatermark&quot;:null,&quot;fullscreen&quot;:false,&quot;imageSize&quot;:&quot;full&quot;,&quot;height&quot;:971,&quot;width&quot;:1456,&quot;resizeWidth&quot;:null,&quot;bytes&quot;:7356892,&quot;alt&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;title&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;type&quot;:&quot;image/jpeg&quot;,&quot;href&quot;:null,&quot;belowTheFold&quot;:true,&quot;topImage&quot;:false,&quot;internalRedirect&quot;:&quot;https://www.gadworld.se/i/190483162?img=https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2F9d2f53a5-8507-4fbb-8b60-b74d3c7710ab_8192x5464.jpeg&quot;,&quot;isProcessing&quot;:false,&quot;align&quot;:&quot;center&quot;,&quot;offset&quot;:false}" class="sizing-fullscreen" alt="" title="" srcset="https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!Y1XE!,w_424,c_limit,f_auto,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2F9d2f53a5-8507-4fbb-8b60-b74d3c7710ab_8192x5464.jpeg 424w, https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!Y1XE!,w_848,c_limit,f_auto,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2F9d2f53a5-8507-4fbb-8b60-b74d3c7710ab_8192x5464.jpeg 848w, https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!Y1XE!,w_1272,c_limit,f_auto,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2F9d2f53a5-8507-4fbb-8b60-b74d3c7710ab_8192x5464.jpeg 1272w, https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!Y1XE!,w_1456,c_limit,f_auto,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2F9d2f53a5-8507-4fbb-8b60-b74d3c7710ab_8192x5464.jpeg 1456w" sizes="100vw" loading="lazy"></picture><div class="image-link-expand"><div class="pencraft pc-display-flex pc-gap-8 pc-reset"><button tabindex="0" type="button" class="pencraft pc-reset pencraft icon-container restack-image"><svg role="img" width="20" height="20" viewBox="0 0 20 20" fill="none" stroke-width="1.5" stroke="var(--color-fg-primary)" stroke-linecap="round" stroke-linejoin="round" xmlns="http://www.w3.org/2000/svg"><g><title></title><path d="M2.53001 7.81595C3.49179 4.73911 6.43281 2.5 9.91173 2.5C13.1684 2.5 15.9537 4.46214 17.0852 7.23684L17.6179 8.67647M17.6179 8.67647L18.5002 4.26471M17.6179 8.67647L13.6473 6.91176M17.4995 12.1841C16.5378 15.2609 13.5967 17.5 10.1178 17.5C6.86118 17.5 4.07589 15.5379 2.94432 12.7632L2.41165 11.3235M2.41165 11.3235L1.5293 15.7353M2.41165 11.3235L6.38224 13.0882"></path></g></svg></button><button tabindex="0" type="button" class="pencraft pc-reset pencraft icon-container view-image"><svg xmlns="http://www.w3.org/2000/svg" width="20" height="20" viewBox="0 0 24 24" fill="none" stroke="currentColor" stroke-width="2" stroke-linecap="round" stroke-linejoin="round" class="lucide lucide-maximize2 lucide-maximize-2"><polyline points="15 3 21 3 21 9"></polyline><polyline points="9 21 3 21 3 15"></polyline><line x1="21" x2="14" y1="3" y2="10"></line><line x1="3" x2="10" y1="21" y2="14"></line></svg></button></div></div></div></a><figcaption class="image-caption">De som lyckas ta sig &#246;ver gr&#228;nsen till Tchad &#228;r utmattade och packade som boskap p&#229; k&#228;rror. Foto: Niclas Hammarstr&#246;m</figcaption></figure></div><p>Zaghawa &#228;r en av Darfurs icke-arabiska folkgrupper. De &#228;r muslimer, precis som de andra grupperna i Darfur, och konflikten handlar inte om religion. Den handlar om makt, mark, resurser och rasism. </p><p>&#196;nda sedan Sudans sj&#228;lvst&#228;ndighet 1956 har staten gjort skillnad p&#229; arabiska grupper och m&#228;nniskor med m&#246;rkare hudf&#228;rg, som zaghawa och masalit, som betraktats som l&#228;gre st&#229;ende.</p><p><a href="https://www.gadworld.se/p/sa-krossades-darfur-monstret-bakom">Splittringen skapades</a> under den brittiska kolonialtiden, efter att Darfursultanatet inf&#246;rlivades i Sudan 1916, och blev ett mer &#228;n hundra &#229;r gammalt s&#229;r som aldrig har l&#228;kt. </p><p>N&#228;r klimatf&#246;r&#228;ndringarna och torkan p&#229; 1980-talet minskade resurserna och konkurrensen om mark och vatten &#246;kade, gjorde staten konflikten d&#246;dlig genom att ta arabiska gruppers parti. Det drev fram det f&#246;rsta folkmordet i Darfur 2003.</p><p>Sedan 2023 &#228;r ett andra folkmord inv&#228;vt i det st&#246;rre inb&#246;rdeskriget i Sudan.</p><div class="captioned-image-container"><figure><a class="image-link image2 is-viewable-img" target="_blank" href="https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!bdJY!,f_auto,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2F10a6a134-9315-4f83-bfb2-0b9d0f7e7599_2000x1867.jpeg" data-component-name="Image2ToDOM"><div class="image2-inset"><picture><source type="image/webp" srcset="https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!bdJY!,w_424,c_limit,f_webp,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2F10a6a134-9315-4f83-bfb2-0b9d0f7e7599_2000x1867.jpeg 424w, 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De har sett halshuggningar. Foto: Niclas Hammarstr&#246;m</figcaption></figure></div><h3><br>De halsh&#246;gg med kniv</h3><p>P&#229; en v&#229;rdcentral i l&#228;gret Oure Cassoni sitter 22-&#229;riga Shima Adam Ibrahim med sin sju m&#229;nader gamla son Walid i kn&#228;t. Han &#228;r akut undern&#228;rd. Hon lyssnar koncentrerat n&#228;r l&#228;karen f&#246;rklarar hur hon ska anv&#228;nda n&#228;ringspastan. </p><p>Utanf&#246;r v&#228;ntar ett hundratal andra mammor i samma situation. N&#228;stan <a href="https://www.rescue.org/se/artikel/vad-hander-i-sudan-varldens-varsta-kris">29 miljoner</a> sudaneser lider av akut matos&#228;kerhet.</p><p>Shima kom hit fr&#229;n al-Fashir med Walid och sin tre&#229;riga dotter Wojen f&#246;r &#229;tta dagar sedan.</p><p>&#8211; Livet d&#228;r var v&#228;ldigt sv&#229;rt. Det var beskjutning hela tiden och massor av m&#228;nniskor d&#246;dades. Folk &#229;t l&#246;v och den s&#228;d som vi brukar ge djuren.</p><div class="captioned-image-container"><figure><a class="image-link image2" target="_blank" href="https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!ZGEn!,f_auto,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2F65e7934a-fc49-413f-bfd8-0110026beecf_960x161.png" data-component-name="Image2ToDOM"><div class="image2-inset"><picture><source type="image/webp" srcset="https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!ZGEn!,w_424,c_limit,f_webp,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2F65e7934a-fc49-413f-bfd8-0110026beecf_960x161.png 424w, https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!ZGEn!,w_848,c_limit,f_webp,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2F65e7934a-fc49-413f-bfd8-0110026beecf_960x161.png 848w, https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!ZGEn!,w_1272,c_limit,f_webp,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2F65e7934a-fc49-413f-bfd8-0110026beecf_960x161.png 1272w, https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!ZGEn!,w_1456,c_limit,f_webp,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2F65e7934a-fc49-413f-bfd8-0110026beecf_960x161.png 1456w" sizes="100vw"><img src="https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!ZGEn!,w_1456,c_limit,f_auto,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2F65e7934a-fc49-413f-bfd8-0110026beecf_960x161.png" width="960" height="161" data-attrs="{&quot;src&quot;:&quot;https://substack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com/public/images/65e7934a-fc49-413f-bfd8-0110026beecf_960x161.png&quot;,&quot;srcNoWatermark&quot;:null,&quot;fullscreen&quot;:null,&quot;imageSize&quot;:null,&quot;height&quot;:161,&quot;width&quot;:960,&quot;resizeWidth&quot;:null,&quot;bytes&quot;:53316,&quot;alt&quot;:null,&quot;title&quot;:null,&quot;type&quot;:&quot;image/png&quot;,&quot;href&quot;:null,&quot;belowTheFold&quot;:true,&quot;topImage&quot;:false,&quot;internalRedirect&quot;:&quot;https://www.gadworld.se/i/199859169?img=https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2F9ce036b5-ede2-41a7-a915-7cd3a23a71db_960x540.png&quot;,&quot;isProcessing&quot;:false,&quot;align&quot;:null,&quot;offset&quot;:false}" class="sizing-normal" alt="" srcset="https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!ZGEn!,w_424,c_limit,f_auto,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2F65e7934a-fc49-413f-bfd8-0110026beecf_960x161.png 424w, https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!ZGEn!,w_848,c_limit,f_auto,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2F65e7934a-fc49-413f-bfd8-0110026beecf_960x161.png 848w, https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!ZGEn!,w_1272,c_limit,f_auto,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2F65e7934a-fc49-413f-bfd8-0110026beecf_960x161.png 1272w, https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!ZGEn!,w_1456,c_limit,f_auto,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2F65e7934a-fc49-413f-bfd8-0110026beecf_960x161.png 1456w" sizes="100vw" loading="lazy"></picture><div></div></div></a></figure></div><p>Under flykten s&#229;g hon och barnen RSF halshugga tre m&#228;nniskor. En kvinna och tv&#229; m&#228;n.</p><p>&#8211; Med kniv, ja. Framf&#246;r oss.</p><p>Hon ber&#228;ttar det som i f&#246;rbifarten, utan att h&#246;ja r&#246;sten.</p><p>&#8211; De sk&#246;t barn som var zaghawa. De sk&#246;t sm&#229; bebisar. Det l&#229;g d&#246;da m&#228;nniskor i &#246;knen. De tar kvinnor och flickor och v&#229;ldtar dem. Ibland d&#246;dar de dem ocks&#229;.</p><p>Shima betalade f&#246;r att &#229;ka p&#229; en flakbil med vad hon tror var 25 andra m&#228;nniskor. Men alla n&#229;dde inte fram.</p><p>P&#229; v&#228;gen stoppade RSF dem. Unga m&#228;n sorterades ut och avr&#228;ttades. Det beror inte p&#229; vansinne, s&#228;ger hon lika lugnt. </p><p>&#8211; De &#228;r inte galna. De gillar bara inte svarta. </p><div class="captioned-image-container"><figure><a class="image-link image2 is-viewable-img" target="_blank" href="https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!KWUF!,f_auto,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2F5df0079e-cafe-44a4-984c-8bf655b4babf_2000x1334.jpeg" data-component-name="Image2ToDOM"><div class="image2-inset image2-full-screen"><picture><source type="image/webp" srcset="https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!KWUF!,w_424,c_limit,f_webp,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2F5df0079e-cafe-44a4-984c-8bf655b4babf_2000x1334.jpeg 424w, https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!KWUF!,w_848,c_limit,f_webp,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2F5df0079e-cafe-44a4-984c-8bf655b4babf_2000x1334.jpeg 848w, https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!KWUF!,w_1272,c_limit,f_webp,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2F5df0079e-cafe-44a4-984c-8bf655b4babf_2000x1334.jpeg 1272w, https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!KWUF!,w_1456,c_limit,f_webp,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2F5df0079e-cafe-44a4-984c-8bf655b4babf_2000x1334.jpeg 1456w" sizes="100vw"><img src="https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!KWUF!,w_5760,c_limit,f_auto,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2F5df0079e-cafe-44a4-984c-8bf655b4babf_2000x1334.jpeg" data-attrs="{&quot;src&quot;:&quot;https://substack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com/public/images/5df0079e-cafe-44a4-984c-8bf655b4babf_2000x1334.jpeg&quot;,&quot;srcNoWatermark&quot;:null,&quot;fullscreen&quot;:false,&quot;imageSize&quot;:&quot;full&quot;,&quot;height&quot;:971,&quot;width&quot;:1456,&quot;resizeWidth&quot;:null,&quot;bytes&quot;:630822,&quot;alt&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;title&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;type&quot;:&quot;image/jpeg&quot;,&quot;href&quot;:null,&quot;belowTheFold&quot;:true,&quot;topImage&quot;:false,&quot;internalRedirect&quot;:&quot;https://www.gadworld.se/i/190483162?img=https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2F5df0079e-cafe-44a4-984c-8bf655b4babf_2000x1334.jpeg&quot;,&quot;isProcessing&quot;:false,&quot;align&quot;:&quot;center&quot;,&quot;offset&quot;:false}" class="sizing-fullscreen" alt="" title="" srcset="https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!KWUF!,w_424,c_limit,f_auto,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2F5df0079e-cafe-44a4-984c-8bf655b4babf_2000x1334.jpeg 424w, https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!KWUF!,w_848,c_limit,f_auto,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2F5df0079e-cafe-44a4-984c-8bf655b4babf_2000x1334.jpeg 848w, https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!KWUF!,w_1272,c_limit,f_auto,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2F5df0079e-cafe-44a4-984c-8bf655b4babf_2000x1334.jpeg 1272w, https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!KWUF!,w_1456,c_limit,f_auto,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2F5df0079e-cafe-44a4-984c-8bf655b4babf_2000x1334.jpeg 1456w" sizes="100vw" loading="lazy"></picture><div class="image-link-expand"><div class="pencraft pc-display-flex pc-gap-8 pc-reset"><button tabindex="0" type="button" class="pencraft pc-reset pencraft icon-container restack-image"><svg role="img" width="20" height="20" viewBox="0 0 20 20" fill="none" stroke-width="1.5" stroke="var(--color-fg-primary)" stroke-linecap="round" stroke-linejoin="round" xmlns="http://www.w3.org/2000/svg"><g><title></title><path d="M2.53001 7.81595C3.49179 4.73911 6.43281 2.5 9.91173 2.5C13.1684 2.5 15.9537 4.46214 17.0852 7.23684L17.6179 8.67647M17.6179 8.67647L18.5002 4.26471M17.6179 8.67647L13.6473 6.91176M17.4995 12.1841C16.5378 15.2609 13.5967 17.5 10.1178 17.5C6.86118 17.5 4.07589 15.5379 2.94432 12.7632L2.41165 11.3235M2.41165 11.3235L1.5293 15.7353M2.41165 11.3235L6.38224 13.0882"></path></g></svg></button><button tabindex="0" type="button" class="pencraft pc-reset pencraft icon-container view-image"><svg xmlns="http://www.w3.org/2000/svg" width="20" height="20" viewBox="0 0 24 24" fill="none" stroke="currentColor" stroke-width="2" stroke-linecap="round" stroke-linejoin="round" class="lucide lucide-maximize2 lucide-maximize-2"><polyline points="15 3 21 3 21 9"></polyline><polyline points="9 21 3 21 3 15"></polyline><line x1="21" x2="14" y1="3" y2="10"></line><line x1="3" x2="10" y1="21" y2="14"></line></svg></button></div></div></div></a><figcaption class="image-caption">Det &#228;r v&#228;ldigt l&#229;ngt mellan k&#228;rrorna som rullar in fr&#229;n Darfur. Det kommer bara n&#229;gra enstaka per dag. Foto: Niclas Hammarstr&#246;m</figcaption></figure></div><p>Enligt FN:s m&#228;nniskor&#228;ttskontor d&#246;dades &#246;ver <a href="https://news.un.org/en/story/2026/02/1166960">6 000 m&#228;nniskor</a> de tre f&#246;rsta dagarna efter att al-Fashir intogs. Totalsiffror saknas fortfarande, d&#229; utredare inte har f&#229;tt full tillg&#229;ng till staden. </p><p>The Guardian rapporterade senare att al-Fashir blivit ett slakthus och angav en h&#246;g, os&#228;ker uppskattning: att minst <a href="https://www.theguardian.com/global-development/2025/dec/05/rsf-massacres-sudanese-city-el-fasher-slaughterhouse-satellite-images">60 000 m&#228;nniskor</a> massakrerades i al-Fashir de f&#246;rsta tre veckorna. </p><div class="captioned-image-container"><figure><a class="image-link image2 is-viewable-img" target="_blank" href="https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!t_oV!,f_auto,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2F33cf13d5-2d1f-4f61-a634-e044f7438481_960x540.png" data-component-name="Image2ToDOM"><div class="image2-inset"><picture><source type="image/webp" 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Karta: OpenStreetMap</figcaption></figure></div><h3><br>Fr&#229;gan som avg&#246;r vem som f&#229;r leva</h3><p>Samtidigt som massakrerna p&#229;g&#229;r och f&#246;r&#228;ldrar f&#246;rlorar sina barn, har 20-&#229;riga Sause Mohammed satt ett nytt liv till v&#228;rlden under flykten.</p><p>I hennes famn ligger 15 dagar gamle Musen. Han ler n&#228;r solen tr&#228;ffar honom i ansiktet. Hans tv&#229; storebr&#246;der, Mosamil, 3, och Maasin, 4, tittar p&#229; honom.</p><p>Sauses man, 26-&#229;rige Jafar Mohammed, &#228;r smal och t&#228;rd. Familjen kommer fr&#229;n Kabkabiya, en by p&#229; v&#228;gen fr&#229;n al-Fashir, och har precis korsat gr&#228;nsen till Tin&#233; i Tchad. De sjunker ihop p&#229; marken och v&#228;ntar p&#229; att registreras som flyktingar.</p><p>&#8211; Det gick inte att vara kvar. Det kom dr&#246;nare som bombade och livet var hemskt. Det enda vi har haft att &#228;ta under kriget &#228;r hirs, s&#228;ger Jafar.</p><p>De har lurat d&#246;den.</p><p>Han ber&#228;ttar att de passerade ett trettiotal v&#228;gsp&#228;rrar under flykten och att RSF ville veta samma sak vid varje kontroll.</p><p>&#8211; De fr&#229;gade: &#8220;Vilken stam tillh&#246;r du?&#8221;</p><div class="captioned-image-container"><figure><a class="image-link image2 is-viewable-img" target="_blank" href="https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!R27l!,f_auto,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2F55e5129c-c543-4bf1-a542-fc2adced0aa8_2000x1334.jpeg" data-component-name="Image2ToDOM"><div class="image2-inset image2-full-screen"><picture><source type="image/webp" srcset="https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!R27l!,w_424,c_limit,f_webp,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2F55e5129c-c543-4bf1-a542-fc2adced0aa8_2000x1334.jpeg 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Bist&#229;ndet r&#228;cker inte till. 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De s&#228;ger att de &#228;r st&#228;ndigt hungriga. Foto: Niclas Hammarstr&#246;m</figcaption></figure></div><p>Familjen &#228;r zaghawa, en folkgrupp som RSF ser som sina fiender. Zaghawa har en roll i v&#228;pnade motst&#229;ndsgrupper i Darfur och &#228;r allierade med regeringsstyrkorna, SAF, som RSF ligger i inb&#246;rdeskrig med.</p><p>&#8211; Misst&#228;nker de att du &#228;r zaghawa kan de gripa dig, tortera dig, skjuta dig. Vi lj&#246;g och sa att vi &#228;r fur.</p><p>Fur &#228;r Darfurs <a href="https://www.gadworld.se/p/sa-krossades-darfur-monstret-bakom">historiska huvudstam</a>, som regionen &#228;r d&#246;pt efter &#8211;&nbsp;furfolkets hem. De &#228;r v&#228;ldigt utsatta och folkm&#246;rdas ocks&#229; i Darfur, men Jafar s&#228;ger att i omr&#229;det d&#228;r de var rensar RSF fr&#228;mst ut zaghawa.</p><p>Vid v&#228;gsp&#228;rrarna kan ett svar best&#228;mma om ett nyf&#246;tt barn f&#229;r leva. </p><p>Folkmordet &#228;r inte kaotiskt. 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Foto: Niclas Hammarstr&#246;m</figcaption></figure></div><h3><br>Med f&#246;rlusterna som enda bagage</h3><p>De flesta som n&#229;r Tchad b&#228;r bara p&#229; ber&#228;ttelserna om det som tagits ifr&#229;n dem.</p><p>Inte pengarna. Inte guldet. Inte fotoalbumen. Inte telefonerna med numren till dem som kanske fortfarande lever. Inte kropparna av dem de inte kunde begrava.</p><p>Bara ber&#228;ttelserna. </p><p>15-&#229;riga Maha Mohammad Hassan fr&#229;n al-Fashir b&#246;rjar skratta h&#246;gt n&#228;r hon t&#228;nker p&#229; det f&#246;rsta hon f&#246;rlorade. F&#246;re kriget gick hon i skolan och tyckte om att titta p&#229; franska tv-serier. </p><div class="captioned-image-container"><figure><a class="image-link image2" target="_blank" href="https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!ny1c!,f_auto,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2Fdf8b8728-287d-404e-937a-f45360425553_960x163.png" data-component-name="Image2ToDOM"><div class="image2-inset"><picture><source type="image/webp" srcset="https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!ny1c!,w_424,c_limit,f_webp,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2Fdf8b8728-287d-404e-937a-f45360425553_960x163.png 424w, https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!ny1c!,w_848,c_limit,f_webp,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2Fdf8b8728-287d-404e-937a-f45360425553_960x163.png 848w, https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!ny1c!,w_1272,c_limit,f_webp,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2Fdf8b8728-287d-404e-937a-f45360425553_960x163.png 1272w, https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!ny1c!,w_1456,c_limit,f_webp,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2Fdf8b8728-287d-404e-937a-f45360425553_960x163.png 1456w" sizes="100vw"><img src="https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!ny1c!,w_1456,c_limit,f_auto,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2Fdf8b8728-287d-404e-937a-f45360425553_960x163.png" width="960" height="163" data-attrs="{&quot;src&quot;:&quot;https://substack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com/public/images/df8b8728-287d-404e-937a-f45360425553_960x163.png&quot;,&quot;srcNoWatermark&quot;:null,&quot;fullscreen&quot;:null,&quot;imageSize&quot;:null,&quot;height&quot;:163,&quot;width&quot;:960,&quot;resizeWidth&quot;:null,&quot;bytes&quot;:48148,&quot;alt&quot;:null,&quot;title&quot;:null,&quot;type&quot;:&quot;image/png&quot;,&quot;href&quot;:null,&quot;belowTheFold&quot;:true,&quot;topImage&quot;:false,&quot;internalRedirect&quot;:&quot;https://www.gadworld.se/i/199859169?img=https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2F09f55e5d-a520-4f3e-9d52-44f6c400f8ff_960x540.png&quot;,&quot;isProcessing&quot;:false,&quot;align&quot;:null,&quot;offset&quot;:false}" class="sizing-normal" alt="" srcset="https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!ny1c!,w_424,c_limit,f_auto,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2Fdf8b8728-287d-404e-937a-f45360425553_960x163.png 424w, https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!ny1c!,w_848,c_limit,f_auto,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2Fdf8b8728-287d-404e-937a-f45360425553_960x163.png 848w, https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!ny1c!,w_1272,c_limit,f_auto,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2Fdf8b8728-287d-404e-937a-f45360425553_960x163.png 1272w, https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!ny1c!,w_1456,c_limit,f_auto,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2Fdf8b8728-287d-404e-937a-f45360425553_960x163.png 1456w" sizes="100vw" loading="lazy"></picture><div></div></div></a></figure></div><p>&#8211; Jag tyckte om serierna f&#246;r deras liv var s&#229; bra. Alla hade fina hus. Allt de gjorde var s&#229; fint.</p><p>Hon kn&#228;cker fingrarna. Leendet f&#246;rsvinner i samma r&#246;relse.</p><p>&#8211; Sedan kom flygplanen och dr&#246;narna. De bombade hela tiden. Min mamma d&#246;dades i v&#229;rt hus. De sk&#246;t henne. Jag flydde med mina br&#246;der. P&#229; v&#228;gen s&#229;g vi hur de d&#246;dade och v&#229;ldtog.</p><div class="captioned-image-container"><figure><a class="image-link image2 is-viewable-img" target="_blank" href="https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!aj_L!,f_auto,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2Fa9cbb8be-a3c9-47c2-9d33-475c9ccb4b89_2000x1334.jpeg" data-component-name="Image2ToDOM"><div class="image2-inset image2-full-screen"><picture><source type="image/webp" srcset="https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!aj_L!,w_424,c_limit,f_webp,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2Fa9cbb8be-a3c9-47c2-9d33-475c9ccb4b89_2000x1334.jpeg 424w, https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!aj_L!,w_848,c_limit,f_webp,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2Fa9cbb8be-a3c9-47c2-9d33-475c9ccb4b89_2000x1334.jpeg 848w, https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!aj_L!,w_1272,c_limit,f_webp,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2Fa9cbb8be-a3c9-47c2-9d33-475c9ccb4b89_2000x1334.jpeg 1272w, https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!aj_L!,w_1456,c_limit,f_webp,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2Fa9cbb8be-a3c9-47c2-9d33-475c9ccb4b89_2000x1334.jpeg 1456w" sizes="100vw"><img src="https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!aj_L!,w_5760,c_limit,f_auto,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2Fa9cbb8be-a3c9-47c2-9d33-475c9ccb4b89_2000x1334.jpeg" data-attrs="{&quot;src&quot;:&quot;https://substack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com/public/images/a9cbb8be-a3c9-47c2-9d33-475c9ccb4b89_2000x1334.jpeg&quot;,&quot;srcNoWatermark&quot;:null,&quot;fullscreen&quot;:false,&quot;imageSize&quot;:&quot;full&quot;,&quot;height&quot;:971,&quot;width&quot;:1456,&quot;resizeWidth&quot;:null,&quot;bytes&quot;:812054,&quot;alt&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;title&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;type&quot;:&quot;image/jpeg&quot;,&quot;href&quot;:null,&quot;belowTheFold&quot;:true,&quot;topImage&quot;:false,&quot;internalRedirect&quot;:&quot;https://www.gadworld.se/i/190483162?img=https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2Fa9cbb8be-a3c9-47c2-9d33-475c9ccb4b89_2000x1334.jpeg&quot;,&quot;isProcessing&quot;:false,&quot;align&quot;:&quot;center&quot;,&quot;offset&quot;:false}" class="sizing-fullscreen" alt="" title="" srcset="https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!aj_L!,w_424,c_limit,f_auto,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2Fa9cbb8be-a3c9-47c2-9d33-475c9ccb4b89_2000x1334.jpeg 424w, https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!aj_L!,w_848,c_limit,f_auto,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2Fa9cbb8be-a3c9-47c2-9d33-475c9ccb4b89_2000x1334.jpeg 848w, https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!aj_L!,w_1272,c_limit,f_auto,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2Fa9cbb8be-a3c9-47c2-9d33-475c9ccb4b89_2000x1334.jpeg 1272w, https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!aj_L!,w_1456,c_limit,f_auto,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2Fa9cbb8be-a3c9-47c2-9d33-475c9ccb4b89_2000x1334.jpeg 1456w" sizes="100vw" loading="lazy"></picture><div class="image-link-expand"><div class="pencraft pc-display-flex pc-gap-8 pc-reset"><button tabindex="0" type="button" class="pencraft pc-reset pencraft icon-container restack-image"><svg role="img" width="20" height="20" viewBox="0 0 20 20" fill="none" stroke-width="1.5" stroke="var(--color-fg-primary)" stroke-linecap="round" stroke-linejoin="round" xmlns="http://www.w3.org/2000/svg"><g><title></title><path d="M2.53001 7.81595C3.49179 4.73911 6.43281 2.5 9.91173 2.5C13.1684 2.5 15.9537 4.46214 17.0852 7.23684L17.6179 8.67647M17.6179 8.67647L18.5002 4.26471M17.6179 8.67647L13.6473 6.91176M17.4995 12.1841C16.5378 15.2609 13.5967 17.5 10.1178 17.5C6.86118 17.5 4.07589 15.5379 2.94432 12.7632L2.41165 11.3235M2.41165 11.3235L1.5293 15.7353M2.41165 11.3235L6.38224 13.0882"></path></g></svg></button><button tabindex="0" type="button" class="pencraft pc-reset pencraft icon-container view-image"><svg xmlns="http://www.w3.org/2000/svg" width="20" height="20" viewBox="0 0 24 24" fill="none" stroke="currentColor" stroke-width="2" stroke-linecap="round" stroke-linejoin="round" class="lucide lucide-maximize2 lucide-maximize-2"><polyline points="15 3 21 3 21 9"></polyline><polyline points="9 21 3 21 3 15"></polyline><line x1="21" x2="14" y1="3" y2="10"></line><line x1="3" x2="10" y1="21" y2="14"></line></svg></button></div></div></div></a><figcaption class="image-caption">1,2 miljoner sudaneser har blivit flyktingar i &#246;stra Tchad p&#229; grund av de tv&#229; folkmorden i Darfur, 2003-2005 och fr&#229;n 2023 och fram&#229;t. Foto: Niclas Hammarstr&#246;m</figcaption></figure></div><p>27-&#229;riga Tagua Badr Djohonda kommer ocks&#229; fr&#229;n al-Fashir. Hon s&#228;ger att hon aldrig mer vill tillbaka till Sudan.</p><p>&#8211; Allt vi har &#228;r f&#246;rst&#246;relse. Om jag skulle komma tillbaka skulle jag bara hitta jorden. De har d&#246;dat hela familjer. De &#228;r bara borta.</p><p>Hennes hus bombades n&#228;r hennes dotter var d&#228;r. Dottern klarade sig.</p><p>N&#228;r Tagua flydde stoppade RSF henne och andra p&#229; v&#228;gen. De tog allt de hade med sig. Fyra personer d&#246;dades. Sj&#228;lv blev hon slagen.</p><p>&#8211; Om du inte har n&#229;got som de kan stj&#228;la fr&#229;n dig s&#229; sl&#229;r de dig.</p><p>De slog henne med elkablar.</p><p>&#8211; Du kan se &#228;rren, s&#228;ger hon och drar upp kjolen.</p><div class="captioned-image-container"><figure><a class="image-link image2 is-viewable-img" target="_blank" href="https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!3TSO!,f_auto,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2F06b50e48-691b-41b4-8428-67c0cec91991_2000x1334.jpeg" data-component-name="Image2ToDOM"><div class="image2-inset image2-full-screen"><picture><source type="image/webp" srcset="https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!3TSO!,w_424,c_limit,f_webp,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2F06b50e48-691b-41b4-8428-67c0cec91991_2000x1334.jpeg 424w, 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Hennes tv&#229; d&#246;ttrar, 9 och 12 &#229;r gamla, blev kvar hemma med sin mormor.</p><div class="captioned-image-container"><figure><a class="image-link image2 is-viewable-img" target="_blank" href="https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!laYY!,f_auto,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2F8b26bcce-03ed-4344-89a5-a68e1162da20_2000x1334.jpeg" data-component-name="Image2ToDOM"><div class="image2-inset image2-full-screen"><picture><source type="image/webp" srcset="https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!laYY!,w_424,c_limit,f_webp,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2F8b26bcce-03ed-4344-89a5-a68e1162da20_2000x1334.jpeg 424w, https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!laYY!,w_848,c_limit,f_webp,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2F8b26bcce-03ed-4344-89a5-a68e1162da20_2000x1334.jpeg 848w, 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Sonen Musen &#228;r 15 dagar. Foto: Niclas Hammarstr&#246;m</figcaption></figure></div><p>Medan Esma var p&#229; sjukhuset br&#246;t striderna ut s&#229; v&#229;ldsamt att hon aldrig kunde ta sig tillbaka till huset. Sedan dess har hon flytt genom Sudan i m&#229;nader, tillsammans med sin yngsta dotter. Soldater har stulit allt de hade med sig.</p><p>&#196;ven mobilen.</p><div class="captioned-image-container"><figure><a class="image-link image2" target="_blank" href="https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!WNYP!,f_auto,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2F3e43d9a8-1f0a-4332-b578-acb4f5af8d8f_960x221.png" data-component-name="Image2ToDOM"><div class="image2-inset"><picture><source type="image/webp" srcset="https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!WNYP!,w_424,c_limit,f_webp,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2F3e43d9a8-1f0a-4332-b578-acb4f5af8d8f_960x221.png 424w, https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!WNYP!,w_848,c_limit,f_webp,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2F3e43d9a8-1f0a-4332-b578-acb4f5af8d8f_960x221.png 848w, https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!WNYP!,w_1272,c_limit,f_webp,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2F3e43d9a8-1f0a-4332-b578-acb4f5af8d8f_960x221.png 1272w, https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!WNYP!,w_1456,c_limit,f_webp,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2F3e43d9a8-1f0a-4332-b578-acb4f5af8d8f_960x221.png 1456w" sizes="100vw"><img src="https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!WNYP!,w_1456,c_limit,f_auto,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2F3e43d9a8-1f0a-4332-b578-acb4f5af8d8f_960x221.png" width="960" height="221" data-attrs="{&quot;src&quot;:&quot;https://substack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com/public/images/3e43d9a8-1f0a-4332-b578-acb4f5af8d8f_960x221.png&quot;,&quot;srcNoWatermark&quot;:null,&quot;fullscreen&quot;:null,&quot;imageSize&quot;:null,&quot;height&quot;:221,&quot;width&quot;:960,&quot;resizeWidth&quot;:null,&quot;bytes&quot;:88306,&quot;alt&quot;:null,&quot;title&quot;:null,&quot;type&quot;:&quot;image/png&quot;,&quot;href&quot;:null,&quot;belowTheFold&quot;:true,&quot;topImage&quot;:false,&quot;internalRedirect&quot;:&quot;https://www.gadworld.se/i/199859169?img=https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2F741d7f51-1cd8-48e8-9a47-e14a3f66c7f8_960x540.png&quot;,&quot;isProcessing&quot;:false,&quot;align&quot;:null,&quot;offset&quot;:false}" class="sizing-normal" alt="" srcset="https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!WNYP!,w_424,c_limit,f_auto,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2F3e43d9a8-1f0a-4332-b578-acb4f5af8d8f_960x221.png 424w, https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!WNYP!,w_848,c_limit,f_auto,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2F3e43d9a8-1f0a-4332-b578-acb4f5af8d8f_960x221.png 848w, https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!WNYP!,w_1272,c_limit,f_auto,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2F3e43d9a8-1f0a-4332-b578-acb4f5af8d8f_960x221.png 1272w, https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!WNYP!,w_1456,c_limit,f_auto,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2F3e43d9a8-1f0a-4332-b578-acb4f5af8d8f_960x221.png 1456w" sizes="100vw" loading="lazy"></picture><div></div></div></a></figure></div><p>N&#228;r hon pratar om d&#246;ttrarna hon l&#228;mnade bakom sig b&#246;rjar hon gr&#229;ta och kan inte sluta.</p><p>&#8211; Ingen fr&#229;n min familj vet om jag lever eller &#228;r d&#246;d. Och jag vet inte heller om de lever eller &#228;r d&#246;da, s&#228;ger hon.</p><p>Esma och dottern har inte f&#229;tt n&#229;got t&#228;lt. De &#228;r hungriga.</p><div class="captioned-image-container"><figure><a class="image-link image2 is-viewable-img" target="_blank" href="https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!RYC9!,f_auto,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2F178debc4-29cf-4160-b1fe-fe62434844f8_2000x1334.jpeg" data-component-name="Image2ToDOM"><div class="image2-inset image2-full-screen"><picture><source type="image/webp" srcset="https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!RYC9!,w_424,c_limit,f_webp,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2F178debc4-29cf-4160-b1fe-fe62434844f8_2000x1334.jpeg 424w, https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!RYC9!,w_848,c_limit,f_webp,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2F178debc4-29cf-4160-b1fe-fe62434844f8_2000x1334.jpeg 848w, https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!RYC9!,w_1272,c_limit,f_webp,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2F178debc4-29cf-4160-b1fe-fe62434844f8_2000x1334.jpeg 1272w, https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!RYC9!,w_1456,c_limit,f_webp,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2F178debc4-29cf-4160-b1fe-fe62434844f8_2000x1334.jpeg 1456w" sizes="100vw"><img src="https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!RYC9!,w_5760,c_limit,f_auto,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2F178debc4-29cf-4160-b1fe-fe62434844f8_2000x1334.jpeg" data-attrs="{&quot;src&quot;:&quot;https://substack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com/public/images/178debc4-29cf-4160-b1fe-fe62434844f8_2000x1334.jpeg&quot;,&quot;srcNoWatermark&quot;:null,&quot;fullscreen&quot;:false,&quot;imageSize&quot;:&quot;full&quot;,&quot;height&quot;:971,&quot;width&quot;:1456,&quot;resizeWidth&quot;:null,&quot;bytes&quot;:597669,&quot;alt&quot;:null,&quot;title&quot;:null,&quot;type&quot;:&quot;image/jpeg&quot;,&quot;href&quot;:null,&quot;belowTheFold&quot;:true,&quot;topImage&quot;:false,&quot;internalRedirect&quot;:&quot;https://www.gadworld.se/i/190475929?img=https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2F178debc4-29cf-4160-b1fe-fe62434844f8_2000x1334.jpeg&quot;,&quot;isProcessing&quot;:false,&quot;align&quot;:&quot;center&quot;,&quot;offset&quot;:false}" class="sizing-fullscreen" alt="" srcset="https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!RYC9!,w_424,c_limit,f_auto,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2F178debc4-29cf-4160-b1fe-fe62434844f8_2000x1334.jpeg 424w, https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!RYC9!,w_848,c_limit,f_auto,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2F178debc4-29cf-4160-b1fe-fe62434844f8_2000x1334.jpeg 848w, https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!RYC9!,w_1272,c_limit,f_auto,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2F178debc4-29cf-4160-b1fe-fe62434844f8_2000x1334.jpeg 1272w, https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!RYC9!,w_1456,c_limit,f_auto,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2F178debc4-29cf-4160-b1fe-fe62434844f8_2000x1334.jpeg 1456w" sizes="100vw" loading="lazy"></picture><div class="image-link-expand"><div class="pencraft pc-display-flex pc-gap-8 pc-reset"><button tabindex="0" type="button" class="pencraft pc-reset pencraft icon-container restack-image"><svg role="img" width="20" height="20" viewBox="0 0 20 20" fill="none" stroke-width="1.5" stroke="var(--color-fg-primary)" stroke-linecap="round" stroke-linejoin="round" xmlns="http://www.w3.org/2000/svg"><g><title></title><path d="M2.53001 7.81595C3.49179 4.73911 6.43281 2.5 9.91173 2.5C13.1684 2.5 15.9537 4.46214 17.0852 7.23684L17.6179 8.67647M17.6179 8.67647L18.5002 4.26471M17.6179 8.67647L13.6473 6.91176M17.4995 12.1841C16.5378 15.2609 13.5967 17.5 10.1178 17.5C6.86118 17.5 4.07589 15.5379 2.94432 12.7632L2.41165 11.3235M2.41165 11.3235L1.5293 15.7353M2.41165 11.3235L6.38224 13.0882"></path></g></svg></button><button tabindex="0" type="button" class="pencraft pc-reset pencraft icon-container view-image"><svg xmlns="http://www.w3.org/2000/svg" width="20" height="20" viewBox="0 0 24 24" fill="none" stroke="currentColor" stroke-width="2" stroke-linecap="round" stroke-linejoin="round" class="lucide lucide-maximize2 lucide-maximize-2"><polyline points="15 3 21 3 21 9"></polyline><polyline points="9 21 3 21 3 15"></polyline><line x1="21" x2="14" y1="3" y2="10"></line><line x1="3" x2="10" y1="21" y2="14"></line></svg></button></div></div></div></a><figcaption class="image-caption">&#8220;De halsh&#246;gg m&#228;nniskor och sk&#246;t sm&#229; bebisar&#8221;, s&#228;ger Shima Adam Ibrahim, 22. Hon g&#229;r genom l&#228;gret med dottern Wojen Mohammad Rahman, 3.  Foto: Niclas Hammarstr&#246;m</figcaption></figure></div><h3><br>Slutet av v&#228;gen</h3><p>V&#228;gen ut ur Sudan leder inte till trygghet. Den leder till n&#228;sta del av katastrofen. </p><p>De &#228;r framme. Men de &#228;r inte r&#228;ddade.</p><p>Tchad &#228;r ett av v&#228;rldens fattigaste l&#228;nder och har tagit emot 1,2 miljoner sudanesiska flyktingar. L&#228;ger breder ut sig i &#246;knen, men alla f&#229;r inte plats i t&#228;lt. M&#228;nniskor sover under tr&#228;d. Barn v&#228;ntar p&#229; mat. Traumatiserade mammor v&#228;ntar p&#229; v&#229;rd.</p><p>De som &#246;verlevt folkmordet f&#229;r forts&#228;tta &#246;verleva lite till.</p><p>&#196;ven h&#228;r &#228;r de oskyddade. &#196;ven h&#228;r uts&#228;tts de f&#246;r v&#229;ld. Samtidigt &#228;r de humanit&#228;ra insatserna bara finansierade till 12&#8211;15 procent, enligt FN:s samordningsorgan f&#246;r humanit&#228;r hj&#228;lp.</p><p>Runt dem finns hettan, sanden, hungern och tystnaden efter alla som inte kom.</p><p>De som n&#229;dde gr&#228;nsen kan ber&#228;tta vad de s&#229;g. Vad v&#228;rlden hindrades fr&#229;n att se. </p><p>Resten syns bara fr&#229;n rymden.</p><p></p><div class="subscription-widget-wrap-editor" data-attrs="{&quot;url&quot;:&quot;https://www.gadworld.se/subscribe?&quot;,&quot;text&quot;:&quot;Subscribe&quot;,&quot;language&quot;:&quot;en&quot;}" data-component-name="SubscribeWidgetToDOM"><div class="subscription-widget show-subscribe"><div class="preamble"><p class="cta-caption">Gad World is reader-supported. To receive new posts and support the work, consider becoming a free or paid subscriber.</p></div><form class="subscription-widget-subscribe"><input type="email" class="email-input" name="email" placeholder="Type your email&#8230;" tabindex="-1"><input type="submit" class="button primary" value="Subscribe"><div class="fake-input-wrapper"><div class="fake-input"></div><div class="fake-button"></div></div></form></div></div><p></p><div class="callout-block" data-callout="true"><h3>Det osynliga folkmordet</h3><p>Det h&#228;r &#228;r den f&#246;rsta delen i en reportageserie fr&#229;n Tchad, med tillh&#246;rande f&#246;rdjupningar, av krigskorrespondenterna <strong>Magda Gad </strong>och<strong> Niclas Hammarstr&#246;m</strong>, som har rest runt i &#246;stra delen av landet p&#229; gr&#228;nsen till Sudan i tre veckor och m&#246;tt sudanesiska flyktingar i Adr&#233;, Farchana, Tin&#233; och Oure Cassoni. </p><p><strong>Kriget.</strong> Inb&#246;rdeskriget i Sudan br&#246;t ut den 15 april 2023 mellan Sudans arm&#233;, SAF, ledd av Abdel Fattah al-Burhan, och de paramilit&#228;ra styrkorna Rapid Support Forces, RSF, ledda av Mohamed Hamdan Dagalo, kallad Hemedti. Striden handlar om makten &#246;ver staten, milit&#228;ren och landets resurser.</p><p><strong>Krigsbrott.</strong> B&#229;da sidor beg&#229;r &#246;vergrepp mot civila. RSF pekas s&#228;rskilt ut f&#246;r etniskt riktade massakrer i Darfur i v&#228;stra Sudan. &#214;vergreppen omfattar mord, sexuellt v&#229;ld, plundring, attacker mot sjukhus och marknader, tv&#229;ngsf&#246;rdrivning och blockering av humanit&#228;r hj&#228;lp.</p><p><strong>Sexuellt v&#229;ld.</strong> V&#229;ldt&#228;kter, gruppv&#229;ldt&#228;kter, v&#229;ldt&#228;kter i n&#228;rvaro av lik, sexuell tortyr och sexuellt slaveri f&#246;rekommer enligt FN systematiskt. UNFPA beskriver det som lika utbrett som &#8220;vapen och kulor&#8221;. UN Women anger att &#246;ver 12 miljoner m&#228;nniskor riskerar k&#246;nsbaserat v&#229;ld. Offren &#228;r fr&#229;n ett&#229;riga barn till 75-&#229;riga kvinnor. I Darfur &#228;r det etniskt riktat och en del av folkmordet mot icke-arabiska grupper, d&#228;r det anv&#228;nds f&#246;r att f&#246;rdriva, terrorisera och bryta ned hela samh&#228;llen.</p><p><strong>Folkmord.</strong> RSF har sina r&#246;tter i Janjaweed-miliserna, som anv&#228;ndes under det f&#246;rsta folkmordet i Darfur p&#229; 2000-talet. RSF och allierade utf&#246;r &#229;terigen etniskt riktade massakrer mot icke-arabiska grupper i Darfur, som masalit, fur och zaghawa. Tv&#229; h&#229;rt drabbade st&#228;der &#228;r El Geneina (15 000 d&#246;da) och al-Fashir. USA konstaterade i januari 2025 att RSF och allierade beg&#229;r ett andra folkmord i Sudan.</p><p><strong>Massd&#246;den.</strong> D&#246;dstalen &#228;r os&#228;kra eftersom stora delar av landet &#228;r otillg&#228;ngliga. Tiotusentals m&#228;nniskor har d&#246;dats i direkta strider och massakrer, medan indirekta d&#246;dsfall av hunger, sjukdomar och kollapsad v&#229;rd kan vara &#246;ver 400 000, enligt USA:s s&#228;rskilda s&#228;ndebud f&#246;r Sudan. </p><p><strong>Flykt.</strong> Kriget har skapat v&#228;rldens st&#246;rsta f&#246;rdrivningskris. Enligt IOM har &#246;ver 14 miljoner m&#228;nniskor drivits p&#229; flykt, inom Sudan eller till Tchad, Sydsudan, Egypten och Etiopien.</p><p><strong>Hunger.</strong> Kriget har slagit s&#246;nder jordbruk, marknader, transporter och v&#229;rd. Omkring 19,5 miljoner sudaneser lever med krisniv&#229;er av hunger, enligt IPC. Stigande br&#228;nsle- och g&#246;dselpriser, kopplade till kriget i Iran, hotar att f&#246;rv&#228;rra sk&#246;rdarna ytterligare.</p><p><strong>Tystnaden.</strong> Trots att Sudan &#228;r v&#228;rldens v&#228;rsta humanit&#228;ra katastrof f&#229;r kriget begr&#228;nsad uppm&#228;rksamhet i medierna. Detta osynligg&#246;r offren och g&#246;r det l&#228;ttare f&#246;r det sexuella v&#229;ldet, massakrerna och utrensningarna att forts&#228;tta. </p></div><div><hr></div><p>L&#228;s f&#246;rdjupningar om Sudan:</p><div class="digest-post-embed" data-attrs="{&quot;nodeId&quot;:&quot;d3280d65-482b-4185-b844-036abdcf7e2f&quot;,&quot;caption&quot;:&quot;Trettio&#229;riga Sueba Abdulrahman ber&#228;ttar att m&#228;nnen som grep henne sa: &#8221;Du &#228;r kvinna och vi kan g&#246;ra vad vi vill med dig.&#8221; Och s&#229; gjorde de det. Efter n&#229;gra dagar, n&#228;r de var klara med henne, b&#246;rjade hon g&#229;. Hon gick bort fr&#229;n staden al-Fashir i Darfur i Sudan. Bort fr&#229;n husen som brann. M&#228;nnen med vapen. H&#246;garna med lik. 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Hans fru Hedwig g&#229;r l&#228;ngs rabatten med bebisen p&#229; h&#246;ften och luktar p&#229; blommorna. 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Copyright: @Diskb&#228;nkstecknaren</figcaption></figure></div><p>Min verklighet formas av var jag l&#228;gger min blick och hur l&#228;nge jag l&#229;ter den stanna kvar. Vad jag v&#228;njer mig vid att se. Vad jag sl&#228;pper in. Men ocks&#229; vad jag d&#228;rigenom slutar se. Jag vaknar till f&#229;gelkvitter och den bekanta k&#228;nslan av att jag missat n&#229;got viktigt. Att jag svikit n&#229;gon. Borde vara mer insatt. Mer p&#229;l&#228;st. Mer engagerad. &#196;r det skam?</p><p>V&#228;rlden h&#228;nder snabbare &#228;n jag hinner f&#246;rst&#229; den.</p><p>Men under det d&#228;r &#8211; lite djupare ner &#8211; finns n&#229;got annat. En k&#228;nsla av att vara skuldsatt till lidande jag inte kan betala. Jag vet om saker. Jag ser saker. Och sedan m&#229;ste jag g&#246;ra frukost.</p><div class="captioned-image-container"><figure><a class="image-link image2 is-viewable-img" target="_blank" href="https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!TjB_!,f_auto,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2Fbf8ec8f0-e44b-4150-aadb-b31641a8e2f5_1231x1223.jpeg" data-component-name="Image2ToDOM"><div class="image2-inset"><picture><source type="image/webp" srcset="https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!TjB_!,w_424,c_limit,f_webp,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2Fbf8ec8f0-e44b-4150-aadb-b31641a8e2f5_1231x1223.jpeg 424w, https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!TjB_!,w_848,c_limit,f_webp,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2Fbf8ec8f0-e44b-4150-aadb-b31641a8e2f5_1231x1223.jpeg 848w, https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!TjB_!,w_1272,c_limit,f_webp,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2Fbf8ec8f0-e44b-4150-aadb-b31641a8e2f5_1231x1223.jpeg 1272w, https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!TjB_!,w_1456,c_limit,f_webp,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2Fbf8ec8f0-e44b-4150-aadb-b31641a8e2f5_1231x1223.jpeg 1456w" sizes="100vw"><img src="https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!TjB_!,w_1456,c_limit,f_auto,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2Fbf8ec8f0-e44b-4150-aadb-b31641a8e2f5_1231x1223.jpeg" width="1231" height="1223" data-attrs="{&quot;src&quot;:&quot;https://substack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com/public/images/bf8ec8f0-e44b-4150-aadb-b31641a8e2f5_1231x1223.jpeg&quot;,&quot;srcNoWatermark&quot;:null,&quot;fullscreen&quot;:null,&quot;imageSize&quot;:null,&quot;height&quot;:1223,&quot;width&quot;:1231,&quot;resizeWidth&quot;:null,&quot;bytes&quot;:98332,&quot;alt&quot;:null,&quot;title&quot;:null,&quot;type&quot;:&quot;image/jpeg&quot;,&quot;href&quot;:null,&quot;belowTheFold&quot;:false,&quot;topImage&quot;:false,&quot;internalRedirect&quot;:&quot;https://www.gadworld.se/i/199584900?img=https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2Fda67f45a-f95c-45b9-a12d-31fb76f31224_1231x1231.jpeg&quot;,&quot;isProcessing&quot;:false,&quot;align&quot;:null,&quot;offset&quot;:false}" class="sizing-normal" alt="" srcset="https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!TjB_!,w_424,c_limit,f_auto,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2Fbf8ec8f0-e44b-4150-aadb-b31641a8e2f5_1231x1223.jpeg 424w, https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!TjB_!,w_848,c_limit,f_auto,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2Fbf8ec8f0-e44b-4150-aadb-b31641a8e2f5_1231x1223.jpeg 848w, https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!TjB_!,w_1272,c_limit,f_auto,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2Fbf8ec8f0-e44b-4150-aadb-b31641a8e2f5_1231x1223.jpeg 1272w, https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!TjB_!,w_1456,c_limit,f_auto,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2Fbf8ec8f0-e44b-4150-aadb-b31641a8e2f5_1231x1223.jpeg 1456w" sizes="100vw"></picture><div class="image-link-expand"><div class="pencraft pc-display-flex pc-gap-8 pc-reset"><button tabindex="0" type="button" class="pencraft pc-reset pencraft icon-container restack-image"><svg role="img" width="20" height="20" viewBox="0 0 20 20" fill="none" stroke-width="1.5" stroke="var(--color-fg-primary)" stroke-linecap="round" stroke-linejoin="round" xmlns="http://www.w3.org/2000/svg"><g><title></title><path d="M2.53001 7.81595C3.49179 4.73911 6.43281 2.5 9.91173 2.5C13.1684 2.5 15.9537 4.46214 17.0852 7.23684L17.6179 8.67647M17.6179 8.67647L18.5002 4.26471M17.6179 8.67647L13.6473 6.91176M17.4995 12.1841C16.5378 15.2609 13.5967 17.5 10.1178 17.5C6.86118 17.5 4.07589 15.5379 2.94432 12.7632L2.41165 11.3235M2.41165 11.3235L1.5293 15.7353M2.41165 11.3235L6.38224 13.0882"></path></g></svg></button><button tabindex="0" type="button" class="pencraft pc-reset pencraft icon-container view-image"><svg xmlns="http://www.w3.org/2000/svg" width="20" height="20" viewBox="0 0 24 24" fill="none" stroke="currentColor" stroke-width="2" stroke-linecap="round" stroke-linejoin="round" class="lucide lucide-maximize2 lucide-maximize-2"><polyline points="15 3 21 3 21 9"></polyline><polyline points="9 21 3 21 3 15"></polyline><line x1="21" x2="14" y1="3" y2="10"></line><line x1="3" x2="10" y1="21" y2="14"></line></svg></button></div></div></div></a><figcaption class="image-caption">Verkligheten blir annorlunda n&#228;r man faktiskt v&#229;gar se den. Foto: Privat</figcaption></figure></div><p>Det &#228;r en specifik form av splittring som jag inte tror att m&#228;nniskor alltid levt med. Att vara konstant exponerad f&#246;r v&#228;rldens sm&#228;rta utan m&#246;jlighet att agera proportionerligt. Utan att ens veta om man borde agera. </p><p>Det &#228;r inte bara &#246;verv&#228;ldigande &#8211; det &#228;r en slags oavslutad r&#246;relse som kroppen b&#228;r runt p&#229;. Kanske har det alltid varit s&#229; men det som &#228;r annorlunda just nu &#228;r att allt p&#229;g&#229;r samtidigt, p&#229; m&#229;nga olika st&#228;llen, d&#229;nande, rakt in i nervsystemet.</p><p>Och mitt i allt det d&#228;r ska man f&#246;rs&#246;ka vara en fungerande m&#228;nniska. F&#246;r&#228;lder. V&#228;n. Kollega. N&#229;gon som fortfarande vill kunna k&#228;nna och g&#246;ra n&#229;got verkligt utan att g&#229; s&#246;nder.</p><div class="captioned-image-container"><figure><a class="image-link image2 is-viewable-img" target="_blank" href="https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!4TCK!,f_auto,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2Fe494e2f6-73b3-496d-9207-a6568f5f3be3_960x1280.jpeg" data-component-name="Image2ToDOM"><div class="image2-inset"><picture><source type="image/webp" srcset="https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!4TCK!,w_424,c_limit,f_webp,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2Fe494e2f6-73b3-496d-9207-a6568f5f3be3_960x1280.jpeg 424w, https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!4TCK!,w_848,c_limit,f_webp,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2Fe494e2f6-73b3-496d-9207-a6568f5f3be3_960x1280.jpeg 848w, https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!4TCK!,w_1272,c_limit,f_webp,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2Fe494e2f6-73b3-496d-9207-a6568f5f3be3_960x1280.jpeg 1272w, https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!4TCK!,w_1456,c_limit,f_webp,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2Fe494e2f6-73b3-496d-9207-a6568f5f3be3_960x1280.jpeg 1456w" sizes="100vw"><img src="https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!4TCK!,w_1456,c_limit,f_auto,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2Fe494e2f6-73b3-496d-9207-a6568f5f3be3_960x1280.jpeg" width="960" height="1280" data-attrs="{&quot;src&quot;:&quot;https://substack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com/public/images/e494e2f6-73b3-496d-9207-a6568f5f3be3_960x1280.jpeg&quot;,&quot;srcNoWatermark&quot;:null,&quot;fullscreen&quot;:null,&quot;imageSize&quot;:null,&quot;height&quot;:1280,&quot;width&quot;:960,&quot;resizeWidth&quot;:null,&quot;bytes&quot;:143146,&quot;alt&quot;:null,&quot;title&quot;:null,&quot;type&quot;:&quot;image/jpeg&quot;,&quot;href&quot;:null,&quot;belowTheFold&quot;:false,&quot;topImage&quot;:false,&quot;internalRedirect&quot;:&quot;https://www.gadworld.se/i/199584900?img=https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2Fe494e2f6-73b3-496d-9207-a6568f5f3be3_960x1280.jpeg&quot;,&quot;isProcessing&quot;:false,&quot;align&quot;:null,&quot;offset&quot;:false}" class="sizing-normal" alt="" srcset="https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!4TCK!,w_424,c_limit,f_auto,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2Fe494e2f6-73b3-496d-9207-a6568f5f3be3_960x1280.jpeg 424w, https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!4TCK!,w_848,c_limit,f_auto,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2Fe494e2f6-73b3-496d-9207-a6568f5f3be3_960x1280.jpeg 848w, https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!4TCK!,w_1272,c_limit,f_auto,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2Fe494e2f6-73b3-496d-9207-a6568f5f3be3_960x1280.jpeg 1272w, https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!4TCK!,w_1456,c_limit,f_auto,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2Fe494e2f6-73b3-496d-9207-a6568f5f3be3_960x1280.jpeg 1456w" sizes="100vw"></picture><div class="image-link-expand"><div class="pencraft pc-display-flex pc-gap-8 pc-reset"><button tabindex="0" type="button" class="pencraft pc-reset pencraft icon-container restack-image"><svg role="img" width="20" height="20" viewBox="0 0 20 20" fill="none" stroke-width="1.5" stroke="var(--color-fg-primary)" stroke-linecap="round" stroke-linejoin="round" xmlns="http://www.w3.org/2000/svg"><g><title></title><path d="M2.53001 7.81595C3.49179 4.73911 6.43281 2.5 9.91173 2.5C13.1684 2.5 15.9537 4.46214 17.0852 7.23684L17.6179 8.67647M17.6179 8.67647L18.5002 4.26471M17.6179 8.67647L13.6473 6.91176M17.4995 12.1841C16.5378 15.2609 13.5967 17.5 10.1178 17.5C6.86118 17.5 4.07589 15.5379 2.94432 12.7632L2.41165 11.3235M2.41165 11.3235L1.5293 15.7353M2.41165 11.3235L6.38224 13.0882"></path></g></svg></button><button tabindex="0" type="button" class="pencraft pc-reset pencraft icon-container view-image"><svg xmlns="http://www.w3.org/2000/svg" width="20" height="20" viewBox="0 0 24 24" fill="none" stroke="currentColor" stroke-width="2" stroke-linecap="round" stroke-linejoin="round" class="lucide lucide-maximize2 lucide-maximize-2"><polyline points="15 3 21 3 21 9"></polyline><polyline points="9 21 3 21 3 15"></polyline><line x1="21" x2="14" y1="3" y2="10"></line><line x1="3" x2="10" y1="21" y2="14"></line></svg></button></div></div></div></a><figcaption class="image-caption">L&#228;s den h&#228;r boken. Foto: Anna Branten</figcaption></figure></div><p>Det som st&#246;r mig mest &#228;r inte m&#228;ngden utan hur medvetet allt &#228;r byggt f&#246;r att h&#229;lla mig kvar. Allt och alla t&#228;vlar om min blick. Inte bara om mina &#229;sikter och v&#228;rderingar, utan om min uppm&#228;rksamhet. Vad jag ska rikta mig mot? Vad jag ska bli r&#228;dd f&#246;r? Vad jag ska hinna reagera p&#229; innan n&#228;sta sak tar &#246;ver? </p><p>Och hur systemen runt verkligheten &#8211; algoritmerna, plattformarna, nyhetslogiken &#8211; har l&#228;rt sig exakt hur man h&#229;ller kvar en m&#228;nniska n&#229;gra sekunder till. Ibland smeker den mig medh&#229;rs, ibland sp&#228;rrar den upp mina &#246;gon, v&#228;cker k&#228;nslor f&#246;r att sen s&#246;va mig.</p><div class="captioned-image-container"><figure><a class="image-link image2" target="_blank" href="https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!jnWS!,f_auto,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2F7bb59aba-9377-4fa8-83c7-ad279de96be7_960x128.png" data-component-name="Image2ToDOM"><div class="image2-inset"><picture><source type="image/webp" srcset="https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!jnWS!,w_424,c_limit,f_webp,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2F7bb59aba-9377-4fa8-83c7-ad279de96be7_960x128.png 424w, https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!jnWS!,w_848,c_limit,f_webp,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2F7bb59aba-9377-4fa8-83c7-ad279de96be7_960x128.png 848w, https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!jnWS!,w_1272,c_limit,f_webp,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2F7bb59aba-9377-4fa8-83c7-ad279de96be7_960x128.png 1272w, https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!jnWS!,w_1456,c_limit,f_webp,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2F7bb59aba-9377-4fa8-83c7-ad279de96be7_960x128.png 1456w" sizes="100vw"><img src="https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!jnWS!,w_1456,c_limit,f_auto,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2F7bb59aba-9377-4fa8-83c7-ad279de96be7_960x128.png" width="960" height="128" data-attrs="{&quot;src&quot;:&quot;https://substack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com/public/images/7bb59aba-9377-4fa8-83c7-ad279de96be7_960x128.png&quot;,&quot;srcNoWatermark&quot;:null,&quot;fullscreen&quot;:null,&quot;imageSize&quot;:null,&quot;height&quot;:128,&quot;width&quot;:960,&quot;resizeWidth&quot;:null,&quot;bytes&quot;:52230,&quot;alt&quot;:null,&quot;title&quot;:null,&quot;type&quot;:&quot;image/png&quot;,&quot;href&quot;:null,&quot;belowTheFold&quot;:true,&quot;topImage&quot;:false,&quot;internalRedirect&quot;:&quot;https://www.gadworld.se/i/199584900?img=https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2F512147fd-2998-4705-bc63-f09ff2dabf50_960x540.png&quot;,&quot;isProcessing&quot;:false,&quot;align&quot;:null,&quot;offset&quot;:false}" class="sizing-normal" alt="" srcset="https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!jnWS!,w_424,c_limit,f_auto,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2F7bb59aba-9377-4fa8-83c7-ad279de96be7_960x128.png 424w, https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!jnWS!,w_848,c_limit,f_auto,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2F7bb59aba-9377-4fa8-83c7-ad279de96be7_960x128.png 848w, https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!jnWS!,w_1272,c_limit,f_auto,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2F7bb59aba-9377-4fa8-83c7-ad279de96be7_960x128.png 1272w, https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!jnWS!,w_1456,c_limit,f_auto,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2F7bb59aba-9377-4fa8-83c7-ad279de96be7_960x128.png 1456w" sizes="100vw" loading="lazy"></picture><div></div></div></a></figure></div><p>Samtidigt &#228;r det sv&#229;rare att stanna kvar i en tanke. En k&#228;nsla. Ett samtal. En flyktig k&#228;nsla av obehag f&#246;rvandlas l&#228;tt till skrollande, arbete, distraktion. Det &#228;r som att hela kulturen tr&#228;nar oss i att aldrig vila blicken n&#229;gonstans f&#246;r l&#228;nge.</p><p>Min uppm&#228;rksamhet bryts n&#228;r jag skriver den h&#228;r texten. Jag hoppar till nyhetsfl&#246;det. </p><p>Ett barn som f&#246;rlorat hela sin familj. Jag stannar i tre sekunder. </p><p>En AI-genererad influencer. Jag skrollar snabbt vidare. Sedan en annons f&#246;r skor. Jag fastnar f&#246;r ett citat p&#229; Substack.</p><div class="preformatted-block" data-component-name="PreformattedTextBlockToDOM"><label class="hide-text" contenteditable="false">Text within this block will maintain its original spacing when published</label><pre class="text"><em>     My daughter asked me when she was six. 
     "If you could, would you go to space?"
     "Yes, I'd love to."
     "But you are already in space. 
     Earth is already in space."
     Our sense of separation on full display, 
     exposed by the raw insight only
     a child possess.
     &#8211; Dennis Hedenskog</em></pre></div><p>Jag vet inte vad det g&#246;r med mig p&#229; sikt. Jag vet inte vad det g&#246;r med oss. Vad som h&#228;nder med ett samh&#228;lle d&#228;r vi snabbt kategoriserar, reagerar, d&#246;mer och g&#229;r vidare. D&#228;r allt m&#229;ste bli inneh&#229;ll innan det hunnit bli erfarenhet. </p><p>Ibland t&#228;nker jag att vi kanske inte &#228;r utmattade av arbete egentligen, utan av att leva f&#246;r l&#228;nge med blicken riktad mot s&#229;dant som dr&#228;nerar livskraft. Fl&#246;den som h&#229;ller oss reaktiva. Ideal som g&#246;r oss otillr&#228;ckliga. Framg&#229;ng och framsteg som f&#229;r oss att k&#228;nna att vi ligger efter.</p><p>Hj&#228;rnan kan bara vara medveten om en br&#229;kdel av allt vi tar in, men resten lagras n&#229;gonstans &#228;nd&#229; har jag l&#228;st. I tr&#246;ttheten. I oron. I k&#228;nslan av att n&#229;got &#228;r fel utan att man riktigt kan s&#228;tta ord p&#229; vad. <em>Kroppen vet.</em> </p><p>Ibland blir allt jag samlar till en stark k&#228;nsla som v&#228;gleder mig bortom det rationella, men oftast &#228;r den tung.</p><div class="captioned-image-container"><figure><a class="image-link image2 is-viewable-img" target="_blank" href="https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!wFm0!,f_auto,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2Fca76f06e-62c0-4dd6-820e-cd57a2920145_1200x1600.jpeg" data-component-name="Image2ToDOM"><div class="image2-inset"><picture><source type="image/webp" srcset="https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!wFm0!,w_424,c_limit,f_webp,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2Fca76f06e-62c0-4dd6-820e-cd57a2920145_1200x1600.jpeg 424w, 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Foto: Anna Branten</figcaption></figure></div><p>Men det fungerar &#229;t tv&#229; h&#229;ll. I samma sekund jag blir medveten om att jag &#228;r &#228;gd kan jag ocks&#229; v&#228;lja att l&#228;gga blicken n&#229;gon annanstans. P&#229; en plats jag annars bara passerar. Hos en m&#228;nniska jag vill f&#246;rst&#229;. P&#229; ljuset genom tr&#228;den eller en bok fr&#229;n en annan tid.</p><p>Eller p&#229; mig sj&#228;lv. Inte den effektiva, d&#246;mande blicken som v&#228;rderar utifr&#229;n prestation, utan en mer f&#246;rl&#229;tande. En som hj&#228;lper mig att se sammanhang och tr&#246;tthet tydligare. Se saker f&#246;r vad de faktiskt &#228;r.</p><p>Verkligheten blir annorlunda n&#228;r man faktiskt v&#229;gar se den. Inte selektivt. Inte reaktivt. 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