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zoutyladesign · 6 months

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(via "Love in Arabic "HOB" Hub حب with flower pattern arabic calligraphy quote" Pin for Sale by zoutyla)

#findyourthing #redbubble #hob #habibi #hub #love #arabic calligraphy #Hob in arabic #love in arabic #Amour in arabic #amor in arabic #amor arabic #amour arabic #love arabic #arabic art #arabic gift

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mindofserenity · 2 months

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شكر

Acquire the skill of amazement.

Not only through sunsets and mountains but in the normality of life. Find yourself to be thankful in every way of life. You will learn to be grateful for all your blessings that we so often undermine and gain the joy of it.

Find beauty in the remarkable and in nothingness.

— mindofserenity

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cookiwi-octonauts · 1 year

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IT'S G I F

#gift #jift #octonauts #the octonauts #octonauts fanart #memes #captain barnacles #kwazii #shellington #tweak #peso #dashi #professor inkling #animation #I say it's gif because you don't pronounce the g like #or idk I speak Arabic in my house🗿

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mostlysignssomeportents · 1 year

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Deena Mohamed’s ‘Shubiek Lubiek’

Shubeik Lubeik, a trilogy of graphic novels by Deena Mohamed, took the Arab comics world by storm, winning Best Graphic Novel and Grand Prize at the Cairo Comix Festival; today, Pantheon Books releases a gorgeous hardcover omnibus English translation:

https://www.penguinrandomhouse.com/books/606934/shubeik-lubeik-by-deena-mohamed/

The world of Shubeik Lubeik is an intricate alternate history in which wishes are real, and must be refined from a kind of raw wish-stuff that has to be dug out of the earth.

Naturally, this has been an important element of geopolitics and colonization, especially since the wish-stuff is concentrated in the global south, particularly Egypt, the setting for our tale.

Though the underlying wish mechanism is metaphysical, Mohamed plays out her worldbuilding in a very science fictional way, constructing an intricate — and skillfully deployed — set of social consequences for a world where wishes are a fact of life.

Indeed, it’s this science fictional trick of “in-clueing” (to use Jo Walton’s excellent critical term) that makes Shubiek Lubeik such a cracking, cross-cultural read:

https://www.tor.com/2010/01/18/sf-reading-protocols/

For though the three stories that make up the trilogy are intensely culturally situated in modern Egypt, they play out as universal, intricate human ethical dilemmas. Mohamed delivers the realistic — but unfamiliar to westerners — depiction of contemporary Egyptian life with the same smart, deft technique that she uses to paint in the rules of a world where wishes are real.

The framing device for the trilogy is the tale of three “first class” wishes: these are the most powerful wishes that civilians are allowed to use, the kind of thing you might use to cure cancer or reverse a crop-failure.

These first-class wishes are the near-exclusive purview of the rich and powerful and their use is tightly monitored and licensed. However, three of these wishes, of Italian origin, are, improbably, in the inventory of Shokry, a poor, pious kiosk owner in central Cairo.

Despite knock-down prices, no one wants to buy Shokry’s wishes. Potential customers are put off by his desperate, hand-lettered sign advertising the wishes, combined with the implausibility of first-class wishes being offered for sale in a humble koisk.

But one of Shokry’s regulars, a fiery old lady who buys her cigarettes from him each day, convinces him to let her nephew design a slick poster advertising the wishes, and the tale begins in earnest.

Every story of a wish is both a puzzle — how would you construct a wish so that it couldn’t possibly backfire — and an ethical conundrum. That is what makes wish stories so delicious to read, whether it’s Sheherezade’s tales or O. Henry.

The engine of wish-fulfillment is a powerful one, capable of hauling behind it almost any kind of tale. Mohamed’s three-act play blends class- and sectarian divides, gender relations, depression and resilience, and kindness and regret.

The first volume, Aziza, is about corruption, using a parable about elite wish-hoarding to tell a wrenching story about loss, love, hope and resilience. It’s a gorgeous, deeply romantic love story, and because it’s a wish story, there’s a devilish twist.

The second volume, Nour, is about depression, privilege, coping, and gender (and, like Aziza, it’s ultimately about resilience, too). There’s some delicious worldbuilding here, and Nour herself is a great character, whose depression is mapped in a series of comedy charts worthy of Randall Munroe.

The conclusion, Shorky, opens the world up, showing us how wishes interact with theology, colonialism, the antiquities trade, and sectarian Egyptian politics. All three stories have wish-style surprises, but the surprises in this one are jaw-dropping. And while all the stories have a lot of broad comedy and great characterization, this one introduces a sprawling cast that is choreographed with absolute mastery.

It’s easy to see why this book did so well in the Arab world. It’s incredibly exciting to see it in English. Many of us have experienced Japanese comics, of course, and if you follow the brilliant publishing program of First Second, you’ve gotten some great French and Spanish comics. But this is the first graphic novel from the Arab world that I’ve had the pleasure of reading. It won’t be the last.

[Image ID: The cover for the Pantheon English translation of Deena Mohamed's 'Shubeik Lubeik.']

#comics #arabic #books #egypt #colonialism #fantasy #science fiction #worldbuilding #allegory #gift guide #reviews

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022023 · 1 year

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qsmparchive · 5 months

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¡Feliz día de los Tres Reyes magos a todes que celebran!

#not a queue #The three king is the celebration of the birth of jesus or moreso the people who came to the birth of jesus #its three persian men named Melchor. Gaspar and Baltasar that follow a shooting star and it leads them to Jesus' birth #and give him three gifts: Gold frankincense and myrrh #these three minerals all to represent where they are from like Europe Arab and African respectively

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battyaboutbooksreviews · 5 months

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🦇 Good evening, bookish bats! We FINALLY got our tree. To make today shine even brighter, the amazing Jo @radio.reader sent me A Woman is No Man by Etaf Rum @etafrum. I had the great fortune of reading this book in 2019, but now that I have a physical copy, I can't wait to dive into this story again.

🇵🇸 Etaf Rum is by far my favorite Palestinian-American author, and as a Palestinian writer myself, I've never felt so inspired to get my own story of growing up as a Palestinian-American published. If you haven't already, you NEED to grab this book!

🌙 The New York Times bestseller and Read with Jenna TODAY SHOW Book Club pick tells the story of three generations of Palestinian-American women struggling to express their individual desires within the confines of their Arab culture in the wake of shocking intimate violence in their community.

🌙 Palestine, 1990. Seventeen-year-old Isra prefers reading books to entertaining the suitors her father has chosen for her. Over the course of a week, the naïve and dreamy girl finds herself quickly betrothed and married, and is soon living in Brooklyn. There Isra struggles to adapt to the expectations of her oppressive mother-in-law Fareeda and strange new husband Adam, a pressure that intensifies as she begins to have children—four daughters instead of the sons Fareeda tells Isra she must bear.

🌙 Brooklyn, 2008. Eighteen-year-old Deya, Isra’s oldest daughter, must meet with potential husbands at her grandmother Fareeda’s insistence, though her only desire is to go to college. Deya can’t help but wonder if her options would have been different had her parents survived the car crash that killed them when Deya was only eight. But her grandmother is firm on the matter: the only way to secure a worthy future for Deya is through marriage to the right man.

🌙 But fate has a will of its own, and soon Deya will find herself on an unexpected path that leads her to shocking truths about her family—knowledge that will force her to question everything she thought she knew about her parents, the past, and her own future.

🧿 A Goodreads Choice Awards Finalist for Best Fiction and Best Debut 🧿 BookBrowse's Best Book of the Year 🧿 A Marie Claire Best Women's Fiction of the Year 🧿 A Real Simple Best Book of the Year 🧿 A PopSugar Best Book of the Year All Written By Females 🧿 A New York Times Book Review Editors’ Choice 🧿 A Washington Post 10 Books to Read in March 🧿 A Newsweek Best Book of the Summer 🧿 A USA Today Best Book of the Week 🧿 A Washington Book Review Difficult-To-Put-Down Novel 🧿 A Refinery 29 Best Books of the Month 🧿 A Buzzfeed News 4 Books We Couldn't Put Down Last Month 🧿 A New Arab Best Books by Arab Authors 🧿 An Electric Lit 20 Best Debuts of the First Half of 2019 🧿 A The Millions Most Anticipated Books of 2019

#read palestine week #palestinian books #save palestine #muslim writers #arab american writers #arab american heritage month #author: etaf rum #book: a woman is no man #books #reading #book blog #book lovers #holiday vibes #book: alice in wonderland #batty about books #battyaboutbooks #book #book mail #book gifts

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luxury-fragrance-haven · 21 days

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#parfum #cosmetics #gift #qatar #saudiarbia #explore #love #united arab emirates #السعودية #الإمارات #قطر #قطر السعوديه الامارات الكويت عمان البحرين #عطور

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msftsn · 4 months

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liam's kid wasn't old enough to remember her name && she wasn't listed on official documents so he had to give her a name for official documents and to ensure she knew she'd always be his daughter she was named "seana aisha byrne".

#seana means gift from god and aisha means alive and well and i think that's really cute #but also liam doing research and giving his daughter both an irish and an arabic name is lowkey so cute to me by e #› i don't mean to tip your scale but you will fail to rip these memes from me. ooc

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blueiight · 1 year

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we need to talk about louis slapping damek's throat to get the vein to surface. who taught him that?! our baby girl would be gentle and would never be that aggressive. although it's very hot and sexy as he does it. it's giving playa 😈

is this what he's been learning in that penthouse or in the 70s? lestat wake up. your baby girl is turning into a macho man again. insert td jakes wake up video.

https://www.tumblr.com/losingbenni/712272651367989248/jacob-anderson-as-louis-de-pointe-du-lac

side note wassup w ur struggle ebonics my baby?? im struggling to get what u even tryna say here

#yn.#yn answers #Tho i do love me a good losingbenni gifset #louis in his penthouse deciding who he deems worthy of immortality .#v the ‘turn beautiful people’ thing…#Or is it louis finding beauty in the suffering of the poor? the voyeuristic vague posturing of ‘leftism’ in whats seen as ‘worthy’ of ‘stru #ggle #Or ‘worthy’ of being liberated from struggle & condemned to the dark gift #the arab. the coalminer. none of these ur ppl!!!#70s lou need to read some WALTER RODNEY!!!#DAN: did you do this bad thing? LOU: well. according to grayzone and the intercept #Like talk about deflection im jtfo #Maybe #He aint eat da baby. but he sholl is gone sip off this youngin right infront of u #& Me irl docs have a hard time finding my veins n shit #Lou gave damek a love tap compared to how some of these PAs n docs did me ina past lol #Hes no macho man here hes cosplaying eartha kitt. compromise? what is compromise? haha we bled lestat like a pig!!#iwtv #louis de pointe du lac

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nesrodesigns · 7 months

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Free Palestine 2

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randompiggy · 10 months

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If there is ANYTHING I can EVER do for the nation of south korea, I will focus mind body and soul to give it to them

#the gift you gave us today; korean-arab relations will prosper forever #wwc 2023 #morocco wnt #south korea wnt

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ashitakaxsan · 2 years

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Ancient Iranian sword unearthed in Russia

Archaeological news of great significance:An ornate Iranian sword has recently been recovered during an excavation survey in the Black Sea Region,in the present-day Krasnodar Krai of Russia. Tehrantimes.com give us the whole image in details.https://www.tehrantimes.com/news/477732/Ancient-Iranian-sword-unearthed-in-Russia

Dating back to the 4th to the 6th century CE, the sword, along with several relics, have been unearthed from a warrior burial, who was an inhabitant of the Taman Peninsula, Heritage Daily reported on Saturday.

The sword suggests a political and cultural connection with the Sassanian or Neo-Persian Empire from modern Iran and Iraq, likely given as a diplomatic gift or taken as a military trophy, the report added.

Also, the archaeological project yielded pieces of a harness, buckles, and belt tips, as well as high-status items such as glass jugs, wooden and metal utensils, and wooden boxes with decayed cloths.

There is no doubt that the cited warrior was a representative of the elite of Phanagoria and was a bearer of the military aristocratic culture of the Bosporan Kingdom in the Migration Period, said one of the members of the project.

The ancient city of Phanagoria was a Greek colony, first founded in the Taman peninsula by Teian colonists in the 6th century BC after a conflict with the Persian king Cyrus the Great. The city grew into a major trading center that, along with the associated necropolis, covers an area of over 2223 acres.

Image below:King Cyrus the Great. Source:https://heritage-history.com/index.php?c=resources&s=char-dir&f=cyrus1

In many ways, Iran under Sassanian rule witnessed tremendous achievements of Persian civilization. Experts say that the art and architecture of the nation experienced a general renaissance during Sassanid rule.

In that era, crafts such as metalwork and gem engraving grew highly sophisticated, as scholarship was encouraged by the state; many works from both the East and West were translated into Pahlavi, the official language of the Sassanians.

The legendary wealth of the Sassanian court is fully confirmed by the existence of more than one hundred examples of bowls or plates of precious metal known at present. One of the finest examples is the silver plate with partial gilding in the Metropolitan Museum of Art in New York. The dynasty was destroyed by Arab invaders during a span from 637 to 651.

#ancient Persia #ancient Iranian sword #Krasnodar Krai #Phanagoria #king Cyrus the Great #Sassanian empire #Persian civilization #Russia #ancient Greece #Black Sea #ancient Greek colonies #culture #cultural exchanges #diplomatic gifts #ancient military trophy #heritage-history #arab conquest #Cyrus the Great

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reeno1 · 1 year

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silvergiftzz · 1 year

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Ramadan Gifts in Dubai, UAE for family & friends and employees

As a time for reflection and consideration, Ramadan is an extraordinary chance to show appreciation and gratitude for your employees, business partners, colleagues, and various business stakeholders.

The routine of Ramadan is beginning and ending a day with prayers. It is the method to commit to the Almighty and surrender to him totally. As Ramadan gifts, we have some valuable collections that you can send to your near and precious ones expressing your good wishes. Dates, lampshades, chocolates, etc. are some of the gifts that can be sent to your friends during the heavenly month of Ramadan.

#ramadan gifts #eid 2023 #ramadankareem #Eid gifts #arabic dates #arabic sweets

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thechembow · 1 month

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Dubai flooding prompts orders to 'stay at home' after city gets 2 years of rain in one day

Apr. 16, 2024 - Fox Weather

DUBAI, United Arab Emirates – In just one day, two years of rain fell on Dubai, triggering flash flooding that crippled a city not accustomed to rain.

The desert city has seen 6.26 inches of rain as of Tuesday night local time. According to the UAE National Center of Meteorology, the city gets 3.14 inches on average every year...

Someone's towerbusting...

After seeing this article and visiting the UAE National Center of Meteorology site and seeing "cloud seeding" as one of the sections, I thought they will probably take credit for the rain by saying they did cloud seeding operations. Sure enough...

Cloud seeding would only have increased already existent rain by 8-15%, so that is definitely not the cause. UAE started cloud seeding in 2002, the year Georg Ritschl started gifting orgonite in Africa. They have taken credit for the rain all along, but someone is definitely doing orgone energy work out there.

#orgone #orgone energy #orgonite #weather #rain #flooding #dubai #united arab emirates #climate change #climate #orgonite gifting #towerbusting #record rainfall #planetary healing #desert #geo-restoration #cloud seeding #orgonise africa #georg ritschl

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