#bodleianlibrary

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Bodleian Library. x

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Duke Humfrey’s Library, Bodleian Libraries, Oxford University

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[totallyhussein-blog]

Where words fail, music speaks

This is the Ashti (Peace) Choir, founded and led by Rana Sulaiman Halo. She has lived in the Khanke refugee camp in Iraq since 2014, and comes from a family of musicians.

As Alice Fordham reported for NPR, with its dirt roads and dwellings, the camp can be a bleak place. But the beat of a daf, a drum sacred to Yazidis, throbs underneath loud, energetic singing.

A dozen young Yazidi women are rehearsing folk songs. They sing about the dawn, the harvest and the Sinjar mountain the Yazidis consider holy. Sometimes their voices harmonize gently, sometimes they rise almost to a shout as the women chant.

In 2019, Rana founded the Ashti Choir, which is supported by the AMAR Foundation, a British based charity. Several women in the choir were ISIS captives and others have lost family members.

"This folk music, it's also a kind of affiliation of our religion," says Mamou Othman, who studies music as psychotherapy at the University of Dohuk. "There are special songs that only the Yazidis sing."

The choir has performed in the U.K and AMAR has also recorded Yazidi folk songs and sacred religious music, and given these recordings to the University of Oxford's Bodleian Library to archive for future generations. 

For further information on AMAR’s work with the Yazidi community, please contact the AMAR Foundation by e-mail or call 0207 799 2217. You can also make a donation to the Yazidi choir through the AMAR Foundation.

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Probably my first and accidental capture of street photography or 'in the moment' photo, taken on a visit to Oxford back in 2015.

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#Repost Deborah Harkness FB page The Bodleian Library first opened its doors on November 8, 1602. Happy Birthday to the Bodleian-the library where the magical seeds for the All Souls Series were planted. 👉Did you know that Deb actually did find a lost book at the Bodleian? "I found a 'lost' manuscript called the Book of Soyga that had once belonged to Queen Elizabeth I's court astrologer, John Dee, in Oxford's Bodleian Library. Everybody thought it was the missing key to Dee's interest in magic. Of course, it wasn't really lost. It was there, in the catalog." -Deb 👉Did you know that Ashmole 782 is really missing? 👉Have you been to the Bodleian? 👉Do you have a favorite library? Please share pictures. 👉In 2016 the Bodleian Libraries produced a free, downloadable coloring book that is perfect for our crafty readers. You can get it here: https://www2.bodleian.ox.ac.uk/__data/assets/pdf_file/0011/197453/2016-Colouring-Book.pdf Cat Thank you to Anna Baldwin for allowing me to share these beautiful photos she took of the Bodleian Library. #BodleianLibrary https://www.instagram.com/p/Cktb9D8I0l0/?igshid=NGJjMDIxMWI=

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Upper Reading Room, Old Bodleian Library

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When I first came to Oxford this was my favourite place to study - but I did find that it’s somewhat distracting at times.

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Days are short, so I skipped gym today, as my legs were still very sore from the last time, and went over lunch to draw a super famous Oxford's building: The Radcliffe Camera. The beautiful rotunda's ground floor is the reading room for the Bodleian Library, and I am not allowed to enter. . . . #oxford #radcliffecamera #bodleianlibrary #oxforduniversity #artdrawing #art #myart #myartwork #sketch #draw #artwork #drawingart #artoninstagram #sketching #urbansketching #illustration #wercolorillustration #watercolorartist #watercolorpainting #watercolorart #artistoninstagram #instagramartist #watercolorsketch #inkandwatercolor #urbansketchers #watercolors #penandwash #penandwatercolor #danielsmith #davincibrushes #escodabrushes #sailorpen #fabrianoartistico (at Oxford, Oxfordshire, UK) https://www.instagram.com/p/ClqGArxsHFH/?igshid=NGJjMDIxMWI=