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Jewish Oud player Jacob Bachiri in Djerba, Tunisia, 1995.

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A Look Back: Hussein El Sayyed’s ‘We Had Days’

Recently, the American University of Beirut unearthed and archived three novels by the late Palestinian author Hussein Al-Sayyed, all three originally been published by Dar al-Hayat. These newly archived novels are part of an indigenous Palestinian restoration project to archive histories of Palestinians, via the the novel, as a “letter” from the past to the future. The novels are digitized and…

Mimi Arok by Mario Wang for Marie Claire China August 2024

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Darine Zaouia - Algerian, Unknown

new-to-me #660 - The Meadow

7 September 2024: Queen Rania called on the global community to uphold international humanitarian law and demand accountability for injustices, explaining that Western double standards on Israel’s war on Gaza have contributed to a “loss of faith in the rules and moral standards meant to govern our world.”

“The people of the world deserve a global system they can trust – free of prejudice, moral loopholes, and deadly blind spots. And trust in that system has become intrinsically tied to the fate of the Palestinian people,” she said, urging European countries to weigh their responses to this conflict against their proclaimed values

Speaking at the 50th edition of the European House – Ambrosetti (TEHA) Forum in Cernobbio, Italy, Queen Rania noted that in the aftermath of brutal wars and bloodshed in Europe, the international community established a number of global institutions meant to prevent similar violence.

Ghost Trail (Les fantômes), Jonathan Millet (2024)

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Nadim Naaman as the Phantom.

Ten (2002) Abbas Kiarostami

Sudanese weddings, photographed by Zofa