Adli Yacubi

Category: Posters

  • When the Pirates Wear Uniforms

    When the Pirates Wear Uniforms

    When flags become brands and uniforms cloak injustice, we must name what we see: a world where war hides behind legality and theft wears a tie. This blog is a poetic protest against global hypocrisy — from Gaza to gilded offices — and a reminder that resistance still rows quietly below deck.

  • Joburg Remembers Too: From Gaajah to Burdah

    Joburg Remembers Too: From Gaajah to Burdah

    From a family Gaajah in Florida North to the chorus of the Burdah at Houghton Mosque, Joburg’s dhikr carries both intimacy and grandeur. This Rabiʿ al-Awwal, in Heritage Month, I was reminded that memory does not belong to Cape Town alone. It stretches wider — across towns, valleys, mosques and homes — carried in the…

  • In Our Veins, In Our Graves: Mawlud and Memory

    In Our Veins, In Our Graves: Mawlud and Memory

    This reflection flows from my Radio 786 series with Gadija Ahjum — Rooted Light, Series 2. In the month of Rabiʿ al-Awwal and Heritage Month, I write of Mawlud as memory in our veins and in our graves: sandalwood tasbihs from Makkah, rampies leaves cut by children, the riwāyah of Barzanji, and the moment we…

  • The Stormborne Sisters: A Karoo Creation Tale

    The Stormborne Sisters: A Karoo Creation Tale

    In the Karoo, three koppies rise like ribs from Mother Earth’s chest — storm-sisters who absorbed a comet’s grief and became stone. This is their myth. Their vanishing. Their voice beneath the silence.

  • The Keffiyeh Is Mightier than the Cape

    The Keffiyeh Is Mightier than the Cape

    In Gaza, not all superheroes fly. Some livestream truth. Some carry bleeding children. Some send plastic bottles filled with rice. And some — like the mother stirring a pot that is almost empty — hold the line with nothing but dust and devotion. This post is not about comic books. It is about subverting myths,…

  • Our Inheritance: The African and Islamic Civilisations That Shaped the World

    Our Inheritance: The African and Islamic Civilisations That Shaped the World

    Discover the hidden contributions of African and Muslim civilisations to science, education, culture, and daily life — from algebra and surgery to universities and the fork itself.

  • Tamat: A Sacred Completion, A Living Beginning

    Tamat: A Sacred Completion, A Living Beginning

    Tamat is more than a graduation. It is a celebration of the living Qur’an — a covenant of sound, presence, and tradition, carried from Hadramaut to the Cape. From children in medoras and sorbaan to processions through District Six, this ritual reminds us that knowledge is not an ending, but a beginning. This post honours…

  • Hājar: The Black Mother Whose Faith Turned the Heart of Hajj

    Hājar: The Black Mother Whose Faith Turned the Heart of Hajj

    Hājar was a Black woman, a mother, and a servant whose trust in Allah turned a barren desert into the heart of Islam. Her courage became the pattern of worship, and her grave a sanctuary of dignity.

  • Four posters inspired by Rumi

    Four posters inspired by Rumi

    If there is one poet that can speak to the heart of spirituality with a timeless relevance and cutting across different persuasions, then Rumi is most certainly the master.

  • Commemorating Johnny Issel in design

    Commemorating Johnny Issel in design

    In 2011, on 23 January, an icon of the struggle for freedom and democracy in South Africa passed away. Johnny Issel was not just central to the formation of the United Democratic Front…