“The Persians ruled for a thousand years…”

Recent Posts

• You used to be able to click on images on WP to enlargen then so readers could enjoy their greater beauty. Does anybody know what happened? June 7, 2020
• Athos June 7, 2020
• New header image June 5, 2020
• Estrella Morente – I can’t get enough of this woman right now June 5, 2020
• I adore this very hot shot of Joseph Fiennes in “Shakespeare in Love” June 4, 2020
• Food for Thought June 4, 2020
• Greek conversations June 1, 2020
• Mohsen Yeganeh — “Behet Ghol Midam” May 24, 2020
• “…an almost lacerating intensity…” — New York bars. May 24, 2020
• Nice to be able to count on some things in life — like Croats reverting to form May 16, 2020
• “Este año no hay corridas” — “There’ll be no bullfighting this year” May 16, 2020
• Barcelona chair: The arrogance of modernism May 16, 2020
• Ramzan Mubarak May 9, 2020
• Andrew Sullivan takes a swipe at Biden’s crusader #metoo-ism under the reign of Obama May 3, 2020
• Massive trade in illegally stolen Greek icons May 1, 2020
• Header image change (above) April 29, 2020
• Declaring the Republic of New York April 26, 2020
• Muslim India journal — from the Wire: “Looking blindly to the increasingly orthodox and puritanical Arab world for our religious traditions has repercussions on much more than just language.” April 25, 2020
• Celia y Fidel p.s. — “Burundanga” April 25, 2020
• Interesting piece (for Spanish-speakers) about how Celia Cruz dissed Castro, and how the petty little bitch (menudo héroe) took his revenge April 25, 2020
• Andrew Sullivan: “We Can’t Go on Like This Much Longer” April 24, 2020
• Best New York accent: “I dunno what caffee is…” April 24, 2020
• Guardian: “We have to wake up: factory farms are breeding grounds for pandemics.” April 21, 2020
• Anti-lockdown protest anthem from Serbia April 21, 2020
• “He’s not here,” my wife said. April 19, 2020
• نوروزتان مبارک March 20, 2020
• A reader from New York writes, on “No hay cama pa’ tanta gente”…. March 17, 2020
• Jadde take on panic: “No hay cama pa’ tanta gente” March 17, 2020
• New homepage pic… March 14, 2020
• The Nation: the brutal Blanche-du-Bois-ation of an innocent, loving and creative woman February 29, 2020
• NYTimes: “As Israel Votes Again (and Again), Arabs See an Opportunity, Arab leaders hope to improve on their strong showing in the last election, when they helped to nearly topple Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu.” February 28, 2020
• Serbia… February 27, 2020
• Ottoman History Podcast — GREAT Twitter thread — follow by all means February 27, 2020
• Ooy, manoulam’ February 27, 2020
• A little gift offer from the Jadde to some loyal readers — read the details, please February 27, 2020
• “An ocean of blood churns round me, Alas!” — Mirza Ghalib February 27, 2020
• Addressing surprising Albanian complaints — A.J. from Lushnjë February 27, 2020
• Bloomberg Forced Me From My Teaching Job After He Learned I’d Been a Sex Worker February 27, 2020
• How a Persian Mystic Poet Changed My Life February 27, 2020
• Whitman: Follow Popova – she writes beautiful stuff February 27, 2020
• Τσαχπίν ~ Χάρις Αλεξίου (1976) February 26, 2020
• Best Trump bash I’ve read so far February 26, 2020
• Always rejoice! February 26, 2020
• Wait… Can Serbia take Croatia to some kind of international crime tribunal? The Sava… February 26, 2020
• While I’m on Neo-Greek hypochondriacs February 26, 2020
• I’m really proud that a NYC borough Jew is coming out with these statements February 26, 2020
• Oh God! I can’t believe someone else said this — drafts and the Balkans February 26, 2020
• Fachos – Croatians February 26, 2020
• “Listen: The Sound Of The Hagia Sophia, More Than 500 Years Ago” — beautiful February 26, 2020
• Good… February 25, 2020
• India…wtf? February 25, 2020
• Kostes Palamas: “We are neither Christians nor pagans” February 25, 2020
• Broccoli Samosa February 24, 2020
• Good ole America: we’ll always be able to produce an Abigail-Williams-type @#527672737!(#(*&!!! to ruin the life of someone else. February 24, 2020
• French Me-too-ism: that’s nice… February 23, 2020
• The Forverts: “Support Yiddish” February 23, 2020
• Djoković: “Oh stop it! That is outraaageous” February 23, 2020
• The bodega: going, going, gon’? Maybe not… February 22, 2020
• My man: we cannot have Turkey’s laws on France’s ground February 20, 2020
• A view on the Catholic-Byzantine Florence Council that took place in the early 15th century in an attempt to save Constantinople from the Ottomans February 19, 2020
• Runciman on Greeks, Byzantines, Romioi, whichever…”The Greek has a subtle and difficult character, not to be recognized in the picture that popular students of the fifth century B.C. like to paint.” February 17, 2020
• The Wire: Ah-haaa Mr. Modi; you give Pakistan the balls and shamelessness (not that they were running out) to throw shade India’s way on something like free speech… February 17, 2020
• Bufčansko: Macedonian dance February 16, 2020
• “…to stop eating MEAT, has a way of alienating us from our histories and our traditions and the people around us.” February 16, 2020
• Yeah, Erdoğan, we get it. February 16, 2020
• Prince Dara Shikoh portrayed as a royal ascetic, Mughal India, circa 1640-55 February 9, 2020
• Maria Callas: “I belong to the givers…” February 9, 2020
• Nationalism = February 9, 2020
• греx: Андрей Рублëв — Андрей Тарковский February 8, 2020
• Montenegrins are such fair-weather Serbs it’s ridiculous February 7, 2020
• Photos: some wild pics of Macedonian Albanians in Struga, 1954 February 7, 2020
• Photo: refugees — the grin on the other guy’s face is priceless February 7, 2020
• Approximate Language/Identity Shift in Anatolia between 500BC – 1500 AD – interesting February 7, 2020
• How does Italy do it? February 6, 2020
• Photo: a funeral, somewhere, I presume, in rural Serbia February 6, 2020
• Bootstraps — AOC, mi pana fuelte February 5, 2020
• Lanthimos: about ten minutes into any of his films I need to go get a sweater February 5, 2020
• Abul Kalam Azad: “Our languages, our poetry, our literature, our culture, our art, our dress, our manners and customs, the innumerable happenings of our daily life…” February 5, 2020
• Mahua Moitra Excellent Speech February 5, 2020
• NYTimes: This is foul: Gandhi’s Killer Evokes Admiration as Never Before February 5, 2020
• Begum Akhtar and Agha Shahid Ali February 5, 2020
• Novak Djokovic IS NOT HUMAN! February 5, 2020
• A Serbian reader writes on an old Belgrade post: “I haven’t seen any other English-language writer pull these elements together into such a compelling portrait of the city.” — and Kami’s photos February 4, 2020
• “Ottoman”: final assessment; plus: the Notarades, and a “what-if” on our Turkish centuries February 3, 2020
• NY Times: a really painful opinion piece from Roger Cohen: “the simple joys and hopes which make life worth living.” February 2, 2020
• February 2: Today is the Feast of the Presentation February 2, 2020
• Alex Shams: “a quick look across cultures reveals how Western norms that emphasise dark colors for men and consider adornment feminine is not by any means universal, but a product of European fashion trends in the 1700s” February 2, 2020
• You can take the boy out of Serbia… February 2, 2020
• Hannah Arendt: the implacable frenzy of the crowd January 31, 2020
• Are Turks really “Turks”, are Greeks really “Greeks”…in case you’ve got some spare time to waste January 31, 2020
• Erdoğan: Did he really need a camo jacket to go into this meeting? January 31, 2020
• Delhi and Partition. Who knew this? I sure didn’t. “A thread on how nearly 20,000 Muslims in Delhi were murdered within a few…” January 30, 2020
• Sergio Ramos, captain of Real Madrid: “Era un chiquillo de Osuna que quería ser torero” January 30, 2020
• Djok! January 30, 2020
• What is the State? January 30, 2020
• And the walls came tumbling down January 30, 2020
• “Ottoman”: It’s pretty good: understanding an opponent’s mythology January 28, 2020
• Who has seen “Ottoman”, the new Netflix series? January 27, 2020
• Hannah Arendt demolishes nationalism, or collectivity of any sort, in two minutes: “I’ve never loved any people or collective group.” January 27, 2020
• TRT’s “The Rum (Greek) community of Istanbul” January 27, 2020
• M. from Novi Sad: “The Building of Skadar” January 27, 2020
• “The Persians ruled for a thousand years…” January 26, 2020
• Photo: Sorry, this pic is priceless :) January 26, 2020
• Conversion Tweet #3 January 26, 2020
• From Ajam MC: Another loss to the process of Manhattan sterilization: Taste of Persia NYC closes January 26, 2020
• My new header image and the “conversion” twitter thread: when I feel the need to express my philosophical or aesthetic apprehensions about Islam I do so loud and clear… January 26, 2020
• Iran — The Return of the King? January 26, 2020
• Another much more coherent thread about Islam and conversion January 26, 2020
• Conversion in the Levant: a long twitter thread with, nevertheless, some interesting questions January 25, 2020
• New header image January 25, 2020
• Photo: Xanthe – İskeçe January 25, 2020
• Photo: P.S. Sifnos January 24, 2020
• Athens: güle güle Güllüoğlu January 24, 2020
• The imam must go; please help us January 24, 2020
• Anna Khachiyan January 24, 2020
• “Stanger’s Guide”: very cool (if pricey) travel site January 24, 2020
• The New Yorker’s interview on Putin January 24, 2020
• Western culture January 22, 2020
• Belgrade joins world’s most polluted cities as farmers torch fields January 22, 2020
• Sifnos: a couple in the beautiful local dress, and on one of Greece’s most beautiful islands… January 22, 2020
• What nationalist nishtgutniks do when they don’t have anything else to do — which is almost always January 21, 2020
• Religious Minorities of Turkey January 20, 2020
• Another Teutonic digression… January 20, 2020
• RIP Les Amis, p.s. –Holy Shit, I totally left Chris Theodorou… January 20, 2020
• Maddening, and hard not to see as the inherent sterility of mainstream Islam’s war on the beauty of Alevism… January 20, 2020
• “As an Orthodox Christian…” & us and the West and Romans and Otto, the Habsburgs and a Balkan Afghanistan January 19, 2020
• Photos: Armenia January 19, 2020
• Epiphany: for the Old School school January 19, 2020
• “Dola Re Dola” … January 18, 2020
• RIP Les Amis – “The world is too small to contain my pain:” – The last bouzoukia in Astoria January 18, 2020
• Every state’s least favorite state January 18, 2020
• As Franz Josef once said, in all his Viennese fussiness, about the Hungarians: “It was terribly inopportune of these gentlemen to come and plant themselves here in the middle of Europe.” January 17, 2020
• Balkans and demographic decline January 17, 2020
• From Guardian: “Croatia has enchanting words for genitalia?” January 16, 2020
• President January 16, 2020
• Nole! – history will vindicate Serbia… January 13, 2020
• Tripe: FOOD!!! January 12, 2020
• Jordan Peterson: Watch this guy: January 11, 2020
• Word Press and photos: HELP January 10, 2020
• From the Guardian: Here’s what could be lost if Trump bombs Iran’s cultural treasures January 7, 2020
• “Shadows of Forgotten Ancestors:” Merry Christmas to Old Calendarists January 7, 2020
• Photo: Sushi in Holargos January 7, 2020
• Serbs: and sometimes you’re real assholes January 7, 2020
• Photo: “Una fazza, una razza:” — @KlairhA — hhhhmmm??? — I dunno January 7, 2020
• From Guardian: Boy, what a model of new-normal ethics and wokeness you Catalans are…such a burden… December 31, 2019
• Serbia detox December 28, 2019
• Oooooof abi, don’t you get tired? Part 2. (Mykonos 1956 photo) December 25, 2019
• Oooooof abi, don’t you get tired? Mykonos 1956 photo (more Stormfront) December 24, 2019
• Merry Christmas December 21, 2019
• Barcelona or Cancún? Startling how young Catalan independistas are… December 19, 2019