سال نو مبارک — Happy New Year to everyone

Recent Posts

• Yes! Finally! Oum Kulthum film!
• Portugal Dared to Reject Austerity, and It Has Paid Off By — LIZ ALDERMAN
• “Aux armes, citoyenes…”
• Interesting — if a little unfair — video from the NYer: “How Millennials Became the Selfie Generation | Annals of Obsession”
• Cool: “Caring for Georgia’s Old Wooden Mosques”
• Caifanes: “Muchos años uno cree, que el caer es levanterse…”
• From the Onion: “Immigrant Children Terrified At Ghastly Visage Of La Llorona In Detention Center”
• Saint Jean’s Midsummer bonfires in Quebec: the bonfires of St.Jean
• Good Slate piece: “The Shunned Muslim Journalist Wajahat Ali wrote about Israeli settlers…”
• Photo: a late June summer night in Petersburg
• Madhubala, Madhuri Dixit, Mughal-e-Azam, and “…the current crop…”
• Rachel Maddow breaks down during report on ‘tender age’ shelters
• World Refugee Day 2018
• “It will cost your mother many tears to make a man out of you” — Shlof shoin main jankele…
• YO!!!, HUMANITY!!!
• “He’s a Yeshiva Bochur”
• World Cup p.s. — Schadenfreude is, after all, a German word.
• Afghan refugees: Repost from 2016 and 2018 “addenda”
• From the Wire — Russia, World Cup 2018
• The yeshiva-bochers of Waterbury
• Photo: Delos
• An “empathogen” — that’s what ecstasy is
• Photo: Gary Winograd’s New York
• Leaving Facebook: next time consult with me.
• Depressing…
• Madhuri Dixit: earthly Woman, female Deity
• A must-read: Muhammad: Prophet of Peace amid the Clash of Empires… :)
• “…shatter them like potter’s vessels.”
• Photo: hamam, Red Fort, Delhi
• Boycott Turkish tourism?
• News from Kurdistan.net
• The Guardian’s Greek Poverty Tour
• Happy New Year to EVERY-one
• Aleksandr Solzhenytsin
• What happened to Catalonia?
• Cartoon: New Yorker
• “…inside newly arrived communities in western Europe…” from the Guardian
• The Guardian on the Balkans
• whoah — Reza hasn’t said something of much use in the recent past…
• Alex Shams, Oum Kalthoum and the “evil eye”
• A break from the cesspool: Rana Farhan & the Mevlânâ
• Photo: Jehangir’s tomb, Lahore… wow.
• Read these…all of us (then summarize for me ’cause I’m feeling stupid)
• Maria Popova on everything, as usual
• More desecration of Istanbul
• “…the wide elbow room of Rome and the Byzantine Empire!’”
• …a Greek argument
• Athens: Macedonia belongs to its bears
• Photo: one of the NYRB’s more attractive front pages
• Photo: Athens, Moon