Lost in the mood

[dastaanewatan]

A librarian at the Calcutta National Library divides books between the two countries following the India-Pakistan partition in 1947.

[my-love-my-soul-deactivated2026]

"Abou Salim shop" in Tripoli, Lebanon, as captured in April 2026. 

[mhbcr]

Every human being must, from time to time, surrender to rest,

to watch life unfold before them

as if it were something that does not concern them.

[ovory]

[julaibib]

[dardasht]

Persian Carpet/ Qashqai made/ Iran

Size: 9m, wool

[parsabad]

Persian Carpet

[placeeee]

[isl-equ-ay]

[christianrichardrice]

Andrew Moore, Restoration Studio, St. Petersburg, 2002.

[nevver]

Look through any window, Paloma Salgado Díaz

[antieverythingism]

Inscriptions in arabic calligraphy, form regular bands throughout the Qutb Minar, India, built 1192 CE

[violentwavesofemotion-deactivat]

“I needed to be reminded of mysterious and sacred things,”

— Albert Camus, from his preface to Jean Grenier’s “Les Iles,” c. 1959

[oldwinesoul]

[alexhidalgu]

[nhlh-95]

[roosvanrij]

[parsabad]

Shah mosque/ Isfahan/ Iran

Photo: Siyavash banaei