Nabeela

• Age: 27
• Gender: Female
• Astrological Sign: Leo
• Zodiac Year: Rooster
• Industry: Non-Profit
• Occupation: Journalist/Youth&Community/Traveller/Student
• Location: United Kingdom

About Me

Travelling, hip hop, revolution, sunshine & warmth, beaches, serenity, culture, The Mekong River, Cambodia, Thailand & Laos. Literature, art [that's real] especially graffiti/street& ethnic, photography (especially photo-journalism) & my digital camera, Espen Rasmussen & Lynsey Addario. Banksy, Creative & political writing, I-Ching, politics, documentaries, Al Jazeera, humanitarian work, poetry lounges. The Palestinian people& Red black and green. The Zapatista movement. Independent cinema, Mind sex, The Central/South American culture & their understanding of socialism, Asia, Islamic architecture, Arabic & Spanish. Motorcycle taxis, fresh ingredients, Arab, Thai & Japanese food. Sushi!, Tofu, rice noodles, green tea, fresh fruit, greenery**. Big mugs of coffee and good books. Hello kitty, anime, night bazaars, earrings, chunky beads & bracelets, ethnic print.

Interests

• Spiritual teachings
• Revolution
• Freedom & Social Justice. People of essence
• Truth seekers
• Freedom fighters and Revolutionary people
• Listening to ourselves in the sense of what we should be - not what we have been told to be & breaking free from conformities. Understanding we are more than material while respecting our minds and our ability to grow.

Favorite Movies

• I love world and independent cinema: Turtles can fly (the best film I have EVER seen..the first Iraqi film produced after the fall of sadaam..this is the deepest and most moving film around!)City of God
• La Haine
• Grave of the fireflies
• Occupation 101
• John Pilger doumentaries; The War on Democracy
• A Question of Palestine
• Year Zero
• The Betrayal
• New rulers of the world
• War by Other Means &many more! Motorcycle Diaries
• Central Station
• Water
• Earth
• Tsotsi
• Beat the Drum
• Blame it on Fidel
• Kidulthood
• Spirited away
• The heart is deceitful above all things
• Dirty Pretty Things
• Umrao Jaan
• Salaam Bombay
• Mountain Patrol
• The constant gardener
• Dead presidents
• Memoirs of a Geisha
• Jar Head
• Hotel Rowanda
• 7 years in Tibet
• Kids
• New Jack City
• Boyz in the Hood
• Menace to society (lol back when I was a yout!)
• 10 things to do in denver when you're dead
• Belly
• The message
• Legends of the fall..haha Lilo and Stitch and The lion king...actually quite deep!

Favorite Music

• HIPHOP: Talib Kweli
• Mos def
• Dead prez
• Jean Grae
• Immortal technique
• Hi-tek
• Nas
• Jaylib
• J Dilla
• Madlib
• The last emperor
• Killah Priest
• Hieroglyphics
• Lupe Fiasco
• A tribe called quest
• The Roots
• Common
• Cunning Lynguists
• DJ Premo
• Jedi mind tricks
• Braintax
• Dubble edge
• Terra ferma; Klashnekoff
• Skriblah
• Kraftsmen
• Jehst
• Harry Love
• Black Twang
• Taskforce
• Logic&Lowkey
• Liberation Army
• Skinnyman
• Dutty Diggers
• Welfare Poets
• Diabolic
• Little Brother
• Papoose
• Wise intelligent
• Lost Boyz
• Black Thought
• De la soul
• Slum village
• Zion I
• Mf Doom
• Zack de la Rocha
• Jemini
• Danger mouse
• Gangstarr
• Guru
• Marley Marl
• AZ
• KRS-1
• Poor righteous teachers
• Jadakiss
• StypesP
• 2pac
• Outlandish
• Knaan
• Channel live
• Big L
• Tragedy Khadafi
• Bars&Hooks
• (old)Mobbdeep
• Jus Allah
• Brother Ali
• Pumpkinhead
• Sunz of Man
• Rass Kass
• Apathy
• Pharoahe Monch
• Afu-Ra Wu-tang (Method man
• Rza
• Gza
• Ghostface are my favs!) Dilated peoples
• Paris (Sonic Jihad) Jurassic 5
• OTHER: Goapele
• Buena Vista Social Club
• Les Nubians
• Leela James
• Erykah Badu
• John Legend
• D'angelo
• Lauryn Hill
• Floetry
• Sade
• Maxwell
• The Marleys
• Ameil Larriex
• Bilal
• Amy Winehouse
• Dwele
• Jill Scott
• 1990's 'swing' and hip hop!!!..Aaliyah (RIP)
• H-Town
• Jodeci
• Total
• SWV
• Whitehead Bros
• Silk
• Xscape
• Junior Mafia(all of them!)
• Kut Klose etc etc!!

Favorite Books

• Ethnic Literature
• Political revelations: The Holy Quran. Ben Okri: The Famished Road
• John Pilger: New rulers of the world (oh and everything else he has ever written love www.johnpilger.com. Maya Angelou!: I know why the caged bird sings
• Gather together in my name
• The heart of a woman
• Singin and swingin and gettin merry like Christmas
• All God's children need traveling shoes Toni Morrison: The Bluest eye
• Sula
• Tar baby
• Song of Solomon
• (and many more!!) Chanrithy Him: When broken glass floats: Growing up under the Khmer Rouge Khaled Hosseini: A thousand splendid suns & The kite runner Everything by Edward Said (RIP) including: Orientalism
• Covering Islam
• A question of Palestine. Khalil Gibran: The Prophet Paulo Coelho: Veronica decides to die
• The devil and Miss Prym
• Manual of the warrior of light Monica Ali: Brick Lane. Richard Bach: Jonathan Livingston Seagull Saul Williams: She Sun Tzu: The art of war.Anything by Noam Chmosky The work of Lao Tzu and Fredich Nietzche The work of Rumi & Hafiz
• Robert Fisk. Stuart Hall
• Ziauddin sardar
• Kobena Mercer & Paul Gilroy

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