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• A Leftist Response to Leftist Delusions on Syria

  
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  This excellent piece was written by Shiar in response to Stop the War’s Lindsey German (who can’t even get the Syrian president’s first name right) and was first published at the Syria News Wire. “Being anti-imperialist yet West-centric,” writes Shiar, “just does not work: it is still Orientalism. This ...
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• Answering The Contemplative Call

  
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  Or otherwise, the reasons I would make a terrible mystic Washington Mystics logo (Photo credit: Wikipedia) As part of an agreement, I am reviewing the book: Answering The Contemplative Call by Carl McColman in exchange for a free e-book copy of this text. Disclaimer: I decided to get out of my comfort ...
  2 weeks ago

• Tabsir Redux: Mocha Musings #1: Mecca and Arabia

  
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  Until the last year of the American civil war, coffee was green; a mocha hound had to roast his or her own. In 1865 John and Charles Arbuckle of Pittsburgh figured out how to roast coffee beans with a glaze and package them. As it turns out, whether or not there was law west of the Pecos, there sure were lots of ...
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• Impresario of Modernism — ‘Diaghilev and the Ballets Russes 1909-1929’ at the National Gallery of Art

  
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  Serge Diaghilev (1872-1929) was neither artist, musician, dancer or choreographer, yet contributed crucially to all the arts with his realization of a modernist Gesamtkunstwerk (total work of art, or merging of the arts), an idea made famous in the mid 19 th -century writings of Richard Wagner, which has been an ...
  3 weeks ago

• A Rich Look at the Kurds, #2

  
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  Here we continue the thread on the British diplomat Claudius James Rich, whose travel account of Kurdistan is well worth looking at. Here is his description of a Kurdish house in 1820.
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• In Conversation with Lalla Essaydi

  
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  Les Femmes du Maroc: Grande Odalisque 2 Q: You were born in Morocco but you are living in the US. How much and in which ways do these opposite cultures mark your works?  A: As an artist now living in the West, I have become aware of another space, besides the house of my girlhood, an interior space, one ...
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• A Rich Look at the Kurds, #1

  
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  Old travel books never cease to delight me. While century-and-more books used to be available mainly in rare book collections of major libraries, the magic of archive.org brings digital life to the genre. Take, for example, the travel account of Claudius James Rich , whose 1820 trip from Baghdad, where he was ...
  3 weeks ago

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