User:Tiamut

why i joined wikipedia

• free and unfettered access to information about all subjects, popular or not, is a key principle underlying my involvement in wikipedia. I used to edit anonymously, but have found that "membership has its privileges," particularly in the face of increasing calls for the deletion of not insignificant articles on controversial subjects.

• i think the Wikipedia: Kindness Campaign effort is really very beautiful.

This user participates in WikiProject Palestine.

This user is a member of WikiProject Countering systemic bias.

This user is a participant in WikiProject Archaeology.

This user is a member of WikiProject Discrimination.

This user is a participant in WikiProject Eastern Orthodoxy.

This user is a participant in WikiProject Christianity.

This user understands the importance of outlines, and is a member of Wikiproject Outlines.

This user has helped promote 9 good articles on Wikipedia.

This user has written or expanded 70 articles featured in the Did You Know section on the Main Page.

some sounds of my city
birds
roosters
church bells (the time, every hour, and one beat for a quarter hour, two beats for a half hour, and three beats for three quarters of an hour)
cars and people yelling about who's car is parked behind theirs
the call to prayer, five times a day
children playing, screaming, laughing, crying
the carpenter's shops (there are still carpenters in Nazareth
just like in Yousef's days)
the neighbours chatting over the balconies or visitors calling for someone to come down
arabic music
hebrew - the voices of the jewish tourists from tel aviv getting their "authentic arab experience"
TV news broadcasts "live from the neighbours' living rooms!"
birds
roosters
church bells

This user has a husband.

This user is owned by one or more cats.

^N — new article
^? — featured in Did you know
^{? co-nom} — DYK co-nom
— good article

For a running log of articles to which I feel I contribute, see this contributions subpage. Below, a summary of the work of which I am most proud.

people: Tawfiq Canaan^N ? | May Ziade^N | Mavia (queen)^? | Faris Odeh^N

places: Sharafat, East Jerusalem^N ? Jacob's Well^{N ? co-nom} | Hittin^{? co-nom} | Lajjun^{? co-nom} |Yalo^N ? | Saffuriya | Jib (village)^N| Nablus

holy stuff: Greek Orthodox Church of the Annunciation^N ? | Mary's Well^N | White Mosque^N ? | Apheca^N ? | Al-Aqsa Mosque | Nabi Musa | Thursday of the Dead^N ? | Al-Azhar Mosque^?

near east: Qedarites^N | Q-D-S^N ? |Syro-Palestinian archaeology^N ?

all things palestinian: Palestinian people | Palestinian fedayeen | Palestinian prisoners in Israel | Palestine | Postal history of Palestine | Place names in Palestine^N ? | Palestinian costumes | Palestinian handicrafts^N | Palestinian pottery^N | Nabulsi soap^N ? | Hebron glass^N ? | Land Day | Sumud^N ?

and more: Hafrada (strangely deleted during my absence, you can see it at User:Tiamut/Hafrada)| Ataaba^N ? | Meleke

This user has been identified as an Awesome Wikipedian and was awarded their own day.

a poem i originally posted at abu ali's talk page (though it's wikilinks continue to morph into new forms)

I mean, how could we?
Express an opinion, that is.
Challenge authority
or bring in points of view underrepresented in the mainstream.
Be persistent,
and yet pen poems.
Write about our poets, writers,
music, and resistance.
How dare we pretend to know who we are
and express what we believe.

How dare we?
Write about what we know
What they've done to us
What they still do to us
And not apologize
for our pursuit of the truth

This user recognizes the Palestinian right of return.‡

21	This user has visited 21 of the 208 countries in the world.

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  The Anti-Flame Barnstar Alright, this would be two barnstars for the same basic issue, but I admire you keeping your cool in this recent kerfluffle, and in not stooping to firing broadsides at every insulting post from a certain unnamed editor. I rather doubt I could have kept nearly so far above the fray in your shoes. Ravenswing 04:17, 8 March 2012 (UTC)
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  The Barnstar of Integrity For your ability to compromise while remaining firm on your values. Also, for one of the most calm and level-headed, yet bold responses to an A/E report (the third paragraph in particular). ya3teke el3afyee ya a5tee. - asad (talk) 03:21, 7 March 2012 (UTC)
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  The WikiCup 2010 Ribbon of Participation Awarded to Tiamut, for participation in the 2010 WikiCup. J Milburn, Fox and The ed17 09:00, 1 November 2010 (UTC)
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  The Excellent User Page Award Rarely are Userpages so full of sadness and poetry. You have a way of latching onto little details—"sounds of my city", the Mona Lisa-esque quality of the "woman from Ramallah"—to reveal the larger picture in the space between the words. As you wrote, "That's what moves me to write. My love for all people which begins with love for myself, then my neighbours, my people, and expands outward from there, everywhere." Beautiful. --AFriedman (talk) 06:39, 12 March 2010 (UTC)
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  The 50 DYK Creation and Expansion Medal Congratulations for creating or expanding 50 DYK articles. Fine work! Binksternet (talk) 16:43, 8 February 2010 (UTC)
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  The Geography Barnstar is hereby awarded to Tiamut for exemplary development work on the Outline of Palestine. ~~~ 23:18, 25 July 2009 (UTC)
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  The WikiProject Palestine Gold Medal Awarded for your outstanding contributions to WikiProject Palestine: for creating so many excellent, well-written, articles using your impeccable judgment, admirable clarity of expression, good humour and wisdom. Ian Pitchford (talk) on 21:52, 2 May 2009 (UTC)
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  The 25 DYK Medal Congratulations! For your very good Middle East related DYKs and other articles. Chanaka L (talk) 04:32, 27 April 2009 (UTC)
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  The Barnstar of Diligence This is for your tremendous expansion of Imwas, not to mention starting the articles of Meiron and Jacob's Well with richly sourced information. I've always come to you when an article needs a great lead or a quality copyedit. This barnstar of quality, effort, and dedication could have no more of a fit owner. Congratulations and keep up the good work! Al Ameer son (talk) 07:57, 21 December 2008 (UTC)
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  Civility Award For managing to put across your frank views on the anecdotes relating to the Moses Montefiore Windmill without resorting to personal attacks and an edit war. Mjroots (talk) 12:29, 20 November 2008 (UTC)
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  The Original Barnstar For scholarly contributions and all-round good sense. PR^talk 22:47, 4October 2008 (UTC)
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  Tireless Contributor Barnstar. for your tireless contribution in Arab and Palestenian related articles especially Mavia and Liwan, you are the perfect user :) MARVEL (talk) 15:03, 4 September 2008 (UTC)
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  The Barnstar of Good Humor For your edit summary here Avi (talk) 15:09, 1 May 2008 (UTC)
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  The Special Barnstar in recognition of your dignified conduct in the face of very unpleasant provocation, and the continued high quality of your contributions in spite of these difficulties, notably the very high quality of the article Sumud which you created in just a few hours NSH001 (talk) 19:11, 19 March 2008 (UTC)
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  The Resilient Barnstar There should be a Hemingway barnstar for grace under pressure, but this will have to do.G-Dett (talk) 13:09, 19 March 2008 (UTC)
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  The Barnstar of Sumud You are a singular editor, and I often wish that the virtue all ethnographers now claim as of peculiar force among your people, sumud, were recognized as a distinctive contribution and testimony to what is, under the civilized veneer, a violent world. Nishidani (talk) 14:38, 18 March 2008 (UTC)
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  The Barnstar of Diligence For your astonishing effort in providing wikipedia with high quality material on Palestine-related subjects such as the good articles of Tawfiq Canaan and Palestinian costumes and your dozen DYKs, not to mention your work on depopulated Palestinian villages. Wallah Mabruk! –-Al Ameer son (talk) 23:10, 19 February 2008 (UTC)
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  The Arabian Barnstar Thank you for your hard work on Arab, not to mention Palestine, related articles! Funkynusayri (talk) 04:23, 13 January 2008 (UTC)
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  The Original Barnstar For grace, diplomacy, intelligence, and magnanimity! G-Dett (talk) 18:03, 7 January 2008 (UTC)
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  The Original Barnstar This is for all the work you did from July to spetember on articles relating to palestine. You deserve this, and your work is appreciated. Cheers! SJP:Happy Verterans Day! 23:51, 8 November 2007 (UTC)
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  Mediation Barnstar I award this Barnstar for helpful mediation (requiring a significant investment of time and patience) of a difficult dispute on the Legal status of Hawaii page, and especially for calling me on my own screwups. Mahalo nui loa!--Laualoha 23:53, 6 September 2007 (UTC)
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  The Barnstar of Diligence Thank you for turning a brief article about Nadia Abu El Haj's tenure battle into the detailed biography she deserves. — Malik Shabazz (Talk | contribs) 19:43, 1 September 2007 (UTC)
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  The Random Acts of Kindness Barnstar Kindness and for understanding every angle of a story Irqirq 20:40, 23 August 2007 (UTC)
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  The Barnstar of Diligence is hereby awarded in recognition of extraordinary scrutiny, precision, and community service. Awarded by Addhoc 16:24, 26 July 2007 (UTC)
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  The Mighty Defender of the Wiki Barnstar just for that what includes your poems too greg park avenue 20:50, 23 July 2007 (UTC)
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  The Original Barnstar for all your much-needed contributions, Regards, Huldra 15:08, 15 March 2007 (UTC)
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  The Resilient Barnstar For standing up for yourself against people who make Wikipedia unbearable at times. MetsFan76 22:33, 2 March 2007 (UTC)
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  The Resilient Barnstar For your learning from your mistake and for going aobut it in a civil Manner, Happy Editing! Aeon 19:26, 6 July 2006 (UTC)
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  The Sandwich of Exceptional Excellence (Potato Salad of Congeniality cluster, 1st. class) In Panis, Veritas.
  Awarded to TIAMUT for for being Civil and Assuming Good Faith in a frustrating situation :)--Doc Tropics ^{Message in a bottle} 20:10, 6 July 2006 (UTC)