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Egypt, Cairo, 1999 - Musicians

by Denis Dailleux

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Mevlevi Dervish  Lebanon

[tao-te-beau]

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Horoscope, Ancient Iran, by Imad al-Din Mahmud al-Kashi

Showing the positions of the heavens at the moment of Prince Iskandar’s birth on April 25, 1384

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Ikuo Hirayama “Traveling by Palmyra Ruins in the Moonlight" 2006

[itinerantblossoms]

Tripoli, Lebanon 

Love the ambience in this city - more homey / spontaneous than Beirut, and much less manicured :) 

[house-of-haqq]

“Even if the end of time is upon you and you have a seedling in your hand, plant it.”

Prophet Muhammad (PBUH) - sahih Musnad Ahmad 12491

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Baghdad, Iraq 2003

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climbing the great pyramid, egypt, 1867-1914

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The Church of Saint Lazarus in Larnaca, Cyprus. It's Church tradition that Lazarus migrated to Cyprus following the Resurrection of Christ and was installed by Saint Paul as the first bishop Bishop Larnaca.

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Lioness Devouring a Man, Phoenician Ivory Panel, c. 9th-8th century BCE. From the palace of Ashurnasirpal II, Nimrud, northern Mesopotamia, Iraq.

[tsalmu]

Votive altar to Ashtart? (Astarte?) Fii village?, Lebanon c. 450 BCE

Location: Museum of Archaeology, Istanbul, Turkey Source: Worldhistory.org

[muhammadsmiry]

“ما لا تناله القذائف.”

[pictodia]

دير مار موسى الحبشي

Dair Mar Musa AlHabashi

Let tell you about this ancient monastery, it's high in the mountains near Damascus, Syria.

You can go up to it by climbing 300 steps, OR through a long trek through the mountain, that's what I chose, it was tough and filled with steep climbes on slippery rocks, but was worth it.

People go there seeking peace or believing that going there would heal an illness they have.

The monks there- even though this monastery is christian- are from different religions, the majority christians but some Muslims. They are the kindest, most well spoken people I've ever met, they kindly welcome everybody there and they even provide accomodations free of charge.

The atmosphere there is one on peace and love that you can hardly stay without feeling touched by something greater than all of this mundane existance.

As I watched the birds fly beneath me, when standing on the stone balcony there, I felt so small yet so one with ever particle of that edifice hewn into stone...I felt infinite...

[rubicunda]

photographs showing the underside of morpho butterfly wings (1, 2)

[gael-garcia]

No Other Land (2024 🇵🇸 Basel Adra, Yuval Abraham, Hamdan Ballal, Rachel Szor)

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An Aged Pilgrim (c. 1618), artist unknown

Opaque watercolour, gold, paper