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The Conference of the Birds or Speech of the Birds (Persian: منطق الطیر‎, Manṭiq-uṭ-Ṭayr, also known as مقامات الطیور Maqāmāt-uṭ-Ṭuyūr; 1177) is a Persian poem by Sufi poet Farid ud-Din Attar, commonly known as Attar of Nishapur. The title is taken directly from the Qur’an, 27:16, where Sulayman (Solomon) and Dāwūd (David) are said to have been taught the language, or speech, of the birds (manṭiq al-ṭayr). Collection at the Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York. Folio from an illustrated manuscript dated c.1600. Paintings by Habiballah of Sava (active ca. 1590–1610), in ink, opaque watercolor, gold, and silver on paper, dimensions 25,4 x 11,4 cm.

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She is the Madonna of the disaffected. She is the pawn of the protest movement. She is the unhappy analysand. She is the singer who would not train her voice, the rebel who drives the jaguar too fast, the Rima who hides with the birds and the deer.

Joan Didion on Joan Baez, in Slouching Towards Bethlehem (via etruscansblueinsleep)

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She is the Madonna of the disaffected. She is the pawn of the protest movement. She is the unhappy analysand. She is the singer who would not train her voice, the rebel who drives the jaguar too fast, the Rima who hides with the birds and the deer.

Joan Didion on Joan Baez, in Slouching Towards Bethlehem (via etruscansblueinsleep)

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“If the concept of God has any validity or any use, it can only be to make us larger, freer, and more loving. If God cannot do this, then it is time we got rid of Him.”

In our archival issue, read the full essay “Letter from a Region in My Mind,” by James Baldwin. 

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Who are you? by Andrey Shishkin.

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Virginia Woolf, The Waves

[Text ID: “But let me be unseen.”]

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And what can I tell you my brother; my killer  what can I possibly say? I guess that I miss you, I guess I forgive you I’m glad you stood in my way

Leonard Cohen Famous Blue Raincoat  (via etruscansblueinsleep)

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Funeral Parade Of Roses (1969) dir. Toshio Matsumoto

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Abdel Kader Haidara, the librarian who saved Timbuktu´s ancient cultural treasures from al-qaeda

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The Color of Pomegranates (dir. Sergei Parajanov)

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Ascot Finery, 1938, Laura Knight

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David Holding Open Psalter with Wisdom and Prophecy from the Vatican Psalter, c.950-70, manuscript made in byzantium, Vatican library (?)

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Men hanging out of the window on the train between Djibouti and Addis Ababa.

Photo by Mike Abrahams

[xshayarsha]

“Tenderness, understanding, and passion are not usually linked together. But then, tenderness and understanding are so rare.”

— Anaïs Nin, from Henry & June; A Journal of Love: The Unexpurgated Diary of Anaïs Nin (1932–1934)

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Pomegranate and Lion, 20" x 16" oil on linen, (2014) Rubik Kocharian

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Young Jewish Woman of Damascus، About 1865

This photograph appears in an album sold by the Parisian Varroquier & Co. titled Costumes: Egypt, Jerusalem, Syria etc. The album is a survey of Middle Eastern fashions as well as social, religious and racial types. The monochrome prints have been tinted by hand to convey the vibrant colours of the clothing. from the V&A’s collections

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Persian Tiles