Reblogged from Natalia Maks: Sahara is one of the magnificent place in the world. I would go there again in a heart beat. Some utterly sumptuous shots over at Natalia Maks – I am suitably envious.
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Fairies and Fusiliers
Reblogged from The I.B.Tauris Blog: Mark Atherton explores The Hobbit and its relationship with the much over-looked trend of literary myth during the Great War. Read more… 1,452 more words On war, faeries and Tolkien:
Research proposals: vision vs. reality
Yes, this. I don’t think I’ve ever laughed as long at an online satire as I am now. So true
Adorning Afghan Walls
Reblogged from Steal | this | Hijab: by Nagmani After Tunisia and Egypt, it was Afghanistan’s turn to be covered in the bold and beautiful colors of graffiti. It all became possible because of one young woman’s unflinching determination. She stood up and vowed to help her country; she is Afghanistan’s first female graffiti artist. Her … Continue reading »
Best of the Rest: Steal | this | Hijab
A caution: this is the point at which I robustly hold forth on what I will claim to be my latest blogscovery, despite the reality that in this instance, the gem of a site has been running since April 2011. Quite how Steal | this | Hijab, the brainchild of Farah Mokhtareizadeh, escaped my radar … Continue reading »
Best of the Rest: Choosing not to Choose
An excellent piece by Raghda Butros, on being an ‘Arab Christian Muslim Secular Jordanian Palestinian citizen of the world’: When I was in first grade, the teacher asked us to divide into two groups, Muslim and Christian, for Religious Education classes. I was one of several kids who was not quite sure, and so I … Continue reading »
Best of the Rest: How do you define ‘Coexistence?’
This is so right, so beautifully God-damn right: We are not different, no one deserves to be treated different than any other person because of his religion or ethnic origin. We are all Semites after all; we can and should live together, not separated by walls or borders. The above writer is 16-years old. He could teach … Continue reading »
Best of the Rest: Why sectarianism is bad for women
Every so often a post emerges that needs no further comment; so perfect, apt and correct is it that to speak further would be to guild the lily. And so I present Sonya Knox, over at Sawt al Niswa: We all know that taking down the sectarian system is linked to combating poverty, allowing civil … Continue reading »
Best of the Rest: Saudi women sue their mahrams for forcibly keeping them single
In a break from what is certainly becoming an unhealthy obsession with the dazzling drifts of snow buffeting our vistas, I forcibly point you in the direction of Mr Fouad GM and the plight (and fight) of Saudi women against their mahrams: Despite the appalling state of women’s rights in Saudi Arabia, the biggest challenge women face … Continue reading »
I ♥ irkafirka
First there was Twitter, which allowed us to indulge in text-based peep-tommery from around the world. Now there is irkafirka, which takes those random bits of tweetery and renders them cartoonish, to wit: And beneath each image the original Tweet lies, banal and unique by turns. Quite new, the collection is ever growing and is … Continue reading »
