Here is your weekly dose of The Sunday Spark ⚡️ a newsletter listing 3 sparks that I thought were worth starting your week with*: 

1. ✌️ If you haven't heard, tomorrow is another Worldwide Strike for Gaza, but the terms are different this time and way easier for you to apply; simply use cash on Dec 18th instead of credit cards, better for a week, and withdraw 30% of money you have in western banks. The aim is to put pressure on the west to act. Please spread the news using comments on these accounts on Instagram and Twitter, prepared generously by my friend Nadia Bata. We can totally do this, right?

 

2. 📚 Some of you are looking for planners for the new year, so here are my favorites, which you have asked me about lately. Of course, since we are supporting local and Arab brands more, I checked the box of 2024 of Mofkera and I loved the year-at-a-glance calendar, and the monthly calendar notebook they offer in the box. Recommended.

 

3. 💭 From the book I finally finished last week and highly recommend, Mornings In Jenin :

 

"For us, fear comes where terror comes to others because we are anesthetized to the guns constantly pointed at us. And the terror we have known is something few Westerners ever will. Israeli occupation exposes us very young to the extremes of our own emotions, until we cannot feel except in the extreme. The roots of our grief coil so deeply into loss that death has come to live with us like a family member who makes you happy by avoiding you, but who is still one of the family. Our anger is a rage that Westerners cannot understand. Our sadness can make the stones weep. And the way we love is no exception.”  

―Susan AbulHawa

(Thank you Readwise for helping me find this quote from my readings)

🙏 Don’t forget that we can donate to support Palestine 🇵🇸. Jordan friends please donate to Jordan Hashemite Charity Organization. 

* Note: To the best of my ability, I am trying to share content by authors who have not disappointed me, and they are hard to come by! Please let me know if any author I share about showed disrespect to Palestine.

 

 

 

Stay tuned for next year's Sunday Spark as I share my annual gift to you, any guesses First name / my dear friend?