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kurdish woman, c 1890s
A Kurdish refugee mother looks at her dead baby for the last time during the exodus of millions of Iraqi Kurds in 1991 after Saddam chased them out of the country to Turkey and Iraq for their uprising during the first Gulf War. 150,000 died on the way from cold and food problems. [464x704] Check this blog!
“Newroz is intimately connected to the history of the Kurdish nation. Traditionally, celebrations start with lighting bonfires on hilltops at night. More recently, the bonfires have been lit on main gathering points in Kurdish towns or neighborhoods, and crowds dance around the fire. During the day, Kurds try to go into nature, and people often dance in traditional costumes. The significance of Newroz goes beyond celebrating the new year, it is also a celebration of freedom.”
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kurdish women in traditional dress, northern kurdistan, 1991 by enver ozkahraman
kurdistan, 1970s by enver ozkahraman
love your friends, let your friends love you
The world is silent while Kurdish children and civilians are being killed in Rojava. This is not politics — this is a humanitarian tragedy. Stop the violence. Protect innocent lives.
My roots grow from the mountains of Kurdistan, my spirit is formed by its culture, and my heart carries the stories of my people. I walk with the legacy of my ancestors and the hope of future generations. I move forward with the hope of future generations, believing in a tomorrow where our culture shines, our land stands strong, and our people live with dignity and freedom.
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WHERE THE CRAWDADS SING (2022) Dir. Olivia Newmon
"You're so lazy," they say, like it's simple. But they don't see the way I'm failing just trying to exist. It's not laziness — it's the weight of everything crushing me, making even breathing feel like work. I'm not choosing this. I'm fighting to stay alive when every part of me wants to give up. I'm dying on the inside while they call it nothing but an excuse.
~ Zainab
The notebooks of Orhan Pamuk
The novelist's Pamuk's notebooks will be published later this year in Memories of Distant Mountains: Illustrated Notebooks, 2009-2022.
Until the age of 22, Pamuk aspired to be a painter. His forthcoming book, Memories of Distant Mountains, collects images and text from his travel notebooks that capture his sketches and thoughts in Istanbul, Urbino, Mumbai, Goa, Granada, Venice, New York, Paris and Los Angeles.
Here's a presentation which includes slides of his notebooks:
The talk was described in an article about Pamuk and his notebooks, “Plagues and Painting with Words: Glimpses of Orhan Pamuk’s Writing Process.”
For his second talk, in the auditorium of the Nasher Museum of Art at Duke, Pamuk explained the writerly process that rests at the intersection of image and text. The pages of Pamuk’s notebooks contain a running commentary on the labors of writing, as well as intimacies, confessions, and symbolic or poetic codes. They not only trace his travels in Istanbul, Urbino, Mumbai, Goa, Granada, Venice, New York, Paris, Los Angeles, and elsewhere, but also reveal what might be called the topographies of the writer’s mind. A piece of gossip sits next to an epiphany. A statement of nostalgia shares the page with news of publications or a simple accounting of the day’s expenses. That contrast, in which the profound cohabits with the quotidian, reveals the writer in the messiness of life. Pamuk’s notebooks are the calm eye of a storm of creativity. They are itinerary and raw thought, both meditative and marginal. For anyone interested in the inner workings of a brilliant mind, the notebooks are an addicting pleasure that lay bare the wellsprings of Pamuk’s writing. The images contained in his notebooks, which were projected on a large screen during the event, reveal ideas, visions, daily concerns, and snippets of conversation intertwined with vistas and landscapes. At times, the words actually constitute the “view.” As Pamuk writes, “There was a time when words and pictures were one. There was a time, words were pictures and pictures were words.”
lakposhtha ham parvaz mikonand /Turtles Can Fly (1997) dir: Bahman Ghobadi
“Please, let’s go Everywhere is a mess”
you still have so many years to meet so many people you never knew you could love so much
and they will love you too <3
I have been thinking about living like the lilies that blow in the fields.
Mary Oliver, from "Lilies" in House of Light: Poems