{"id":2067,"date":"2024-02-08T00:26:06","date_gmt":"2024-02-08T00:26:06","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.rahs-open-lid.com\/?page_id=2067"},"modified":"2024-12-31T23:17:18","modified_gmt":"2024-12-31T23:17:18","slug":"about-rol","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/www.rahs-open-lid.com\/index.php\/about-rol\/","title":{"rendered":"About ROL"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p class=\"has-text-align-center has-black-background-color has-background has-large-font-size\" style=\"font-style:italic;font-weight:500\">About Me And ROL<\/p>\n\n\n\n<div class=\"wp-block-group has-background is-layout-constrained wp-block-group-is-layout-constrained\" style=\"background-color:#555555\">\n<p class=\"has-background\" style=\"background-color:#555555\">Rah&#8217;s Open Lid is a free depository of books of interest posted for postery and use by the general netizen visitor. A good alternative to google and other search engines is <a href=\"https:\/\/cynay.com\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">Cynay<\/a>. Additionally, you can find free resources at <a href=\"https:\/\/z-library.se\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">Z-Library<\/a>, <a href=\"https:\/\/openlibrary.org\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">Open Library<\/a>, <a href=\"https:\/\/annas-archive.gs\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">Anna&#8217;s Archive<\/a>, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.globalgreyebooks.com\/index.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">Global Grey Books<\/a>, <a href=\"https:\/\/openmaktaba.com\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">OpenMaktaba<\/a>, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.pdfdrive.com\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">PDF Drive<\/a>, <a href=\"https:\/\/unblockit.dad\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">Unblockit<\/a>, <a href=\"https:\/\/sacred-texts.com\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">Scared-Texts<\/a>, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.kalamullah.com\/index.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">Kalamullah<\/a>, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.gutenberg.org\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">Project Gutenberg<\/a>, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.marxists.org\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">Marxists Internet Archive<\/a>, <a href=\"https:\/\/blog.library.villanova.edu\/2022\/01\/18\/a-free-library-of-marxist-thought-the-marxists-internet-archive\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">A Free Library of Marxist Thought<\/a>, and <a href=\"https:\/\/archive.org\/details\/texts\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">Internet Archives<\/a>. There also comprehensive lists on Reddit at <a href=\"https:\/\/www.reddit.com\/r\/FREEMEDIAHECKYEAH\/wiki\/reading\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">FREEMEDIAHECKYEAH<\/a> and <a href=\"https:\/\/www.reddit.com\/r\/Piracy\/wiki\/megathread\/books\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">Piracy: Sail the high seas<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-background\" style=\"background-color:#555555\">Personal poetry and artwork will be migrated here from other sources slowly as a general database of my writings as a means to consolidate everything in one place. Blog posts may or may not make it on here on a regular basis. Music centered reviews and think pieces are not out of the question as well.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-background\" style=\"background-color:#555555\">The name was taken from my late brother&#8217;s magazine which he named <a href=\"https:\/\/sidsopenedlid.wixsite.com\/s-o-l?fbclid=IwAR\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">Sid&#8217;s Open Lid<\/a>. Please check out my brother&#8217;s work whenever you have the chance. It&#8217;s also my official sister site along with <a href=\"https:\/\/medium.com\/communities-evolving\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">Communities Evolving<\/a> which is a blog page dedicated to tackling global BIPOC centric sociopolitical topics for discussion.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-background\" style=\"background-color:#555555\">My social media presence can be found on <a href=\"https:\/\/www.threads.net\/@sat.aigin\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">Threads<\/a>, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.instagram.com\/sat.aigin\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">Instagram<\/a>, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.tiktok.com\/@movingfeet10?is_from_webapp=1&amp;sender_device=pc\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">TikTok<\/a>, and <a href=\"https:\/\/www.deviantart.com\/saturnword\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">deviantart<\/a>. If anyone&#8217;s curious, the following is an interview that a former music journalist collegue did with me in 2012: <a href=\"https:\/\/tyrannyoftradition.com\/2012\/02\/04\/1668-words-with-sarah-elgindy\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">1,668 Words With Sarah Elgindy<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-background\" style=\"background-color:#555555\">In addition to my work on that specific project off-shoot, I also wrote some articles for the main project&#8217;s blog which has been removed during their site&#8217;s remodeling work within the past few years. I also founded the online music magazine named Blood or Love and co-founded the record label <a href=\"https:\/\/www.metal-archives.com\/labels\/Domestic_Genocide_Records\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">Domestic Genocide<\/a> both of which are no longer active.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-text-align-center has-black-background-color has-background has-medium-font-size\"><em>The following are a list of articles that I have written during my time as co-founder of Mideast Tunes<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\">\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/blog.mideastunes.com\/post\/19849445681\/interview-with-al-hajjaj-of-saudi-arabia\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">Interview with Al-Hajjaj of Saudi Arabia<\/a><\/li>\n\n\n\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/blog.mideastunes.com\/post\/14943197900\/interview-wmohammed-almeshkhas-of-bahrai\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">Interview w\/Mohammed Almeshkhas of Bahrain<\/a><\/li>\n\n\n\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/blog.mideastunes.com\/post\/14943049858\/erragals-nin-hur-sag-review\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">Erragal\u2019s \u201cNin Hur Sag\u201d Review<\/a><\/li>\n\n\n\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/blog.mideastunes.com\/post\/14942949320\/interview-with-foad-manshad\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">Interview with Foad Manshady: A Force For Change<\/a><\/li>\n\n\n\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/blog.mideastunes.com\/post\/14942849056\/interview-with-busac-of-smouldering-in-forgotten\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">Interview with Busac of Smouldering In Forgotten<\/a><\/li>\n\n\n\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/blog.mideastunes.com\/post\/14942710931\/two-bands-from-jordan\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">Two Bands From Jordan<\/a><\/li>\n\n\n\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/blog.mideastunes.com\/post\/14942563054\/interview-with-mudamer-of-thamud\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">Interview with Mudamer of Thamud<\/a><\/li>\n\n\n\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/blog.mideastunes.com\/post\/14942352818\/understanding-qafas\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">Understanding Qafas<\/a><\/li>\n\n\n\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/blog.mideastunes.com\/post\/14942284805\/dissecting-thamud\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">Dissecting Thamud<\/a><\/li>\n\n\n\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/blog.mideastunes.com\/post\/14942163794\/a-study-of-nokturnal-forest\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">A study of Nokturnal Forest<\/a><\/li>\n\n\n\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/blog.mideastunes.com\/post\/14942091176\/interview-with-khaled-sallam-of-konzaross\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">Interview with Khaled Sallam of Konzaross<\/a><\/li>\n\n\n\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/blog.mideastunes.com\/post\/14941930725\/odious-a-review-by-sarah-e\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">Odious: A Review by Sarah E.<\/a><\/li>\n\n\n\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/blog.mideastunes.com\/post\/14941766332\/interview-with-alfi-hayati-of-odious-and-hate\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">Interview with Alfi Hayati of Odious and Hate Field<\/a><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-text-align-center has-black-background-color has-background has-large-font-size\" style=\"font-style:italic;font-weight:500\">Older Versions of My Blog<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-background\" style=\"background-color:#555555\">The name Domestic Genocide was originally the name for my first blog that I started building during 2009-2010 which ran on the simple machines forum software and a theme that I heavily modified to suite my own purposes. Once it was decided to use the name for the now defunked record label, I renamed it The Abyss and it ran off of an earlier version of WordPress software. The gallery below has some images from earlier versions of my blogs which I created myself using open source fonts and graphics while some came from scanned artwork from <a href=\"https:\/\/davidmackarts.com\/about\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">David Mack<\/a>&#8216;s Kabuki graphic novels. <\/p>\n\n\n\nngg_shortcode_0_placeholder\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>About Me And ROL Rah&#8217;s Open Lid is a free depository of books of interest posted for postery and use by the general netizen visitor. A good alternative to google and other search engines is Cynay. Additionally, you can find free resources at Z-Library, Open Library, Anna&#8217;s Archive, Global Grey Books, OpenMaktaba, PDF Drive, Unblockit, [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"parent":0,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"site-container-style":"default","site-container-layout":"default","site-sidebar-layout":"default","disable-article-header":"default","disable-site-header":"default","disable-site-footer":"default","disable-content-area-spacing":"default","ngg_post_thumbnail":0,"footnotes":""},"class_list":["post-2067","page","type-page","status-publish","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rahs-open-lid.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/2067","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rahs-open-lid.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rahs-open-lid.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rahs-open-lid.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rahs-open-lid.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2067"}],"version-history":[{"count":9,"href":"https:\/\/www.rahs-open-lid.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/2067\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2999,"href":"https:\/\/www.rahs-open-lid.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/2067\/revisions\/2999"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rahs-open-lid.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2067"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}