Where have all the flowers gone (1961) is a folk song. The
first three verses were written by Pete Seeger in 1955, He was inspired by
Mikhail Sholokhov's novel And Quiet Flows the Don, which is about Czarist
Russia. Seeger's lyrics show how war and suffering can be cyclical in nature:
girls pick flowers, men pick girls, men go to war and fill graves with their
dead which get covered with flowers
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ثقافة السياحة والسفر ليست سوى استمرار للممارسات الإمبريالية
The culture of travel and tourism is only a
continuation of imperialist practices
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تاريخ قصير من نهاية العالم وبلاد ما بين النهرين، مرثاة أور
A Short
History of the Apocalypse
Mesopotamia,
circa 2000 BCE
Orphans of Ur
O my flooded,
washed away
Brickwork of
Ur!
My good house,
my city,
you who have
been piled in heaps,
As I lay
myself down with you
in a breach in
your good ravaged house,
I shall, like
a fallen ox
never be able
to rise again.
– Anonymous, “Lamentation over the
destruction of Ur,” c. 2000 BCE, from Thorkild Jacobset, The Harps that Once…:
Sumerian Poetry in Translation, 447-8.
المسرح الوطني السوفيتي وتجديد فرهاد
Soviet National Theatre and the Reforging of Farhad
The period of high Stalinism that
followed the Writers’ Congress is a good context in which to observe the
transformations that have accompanied generic transfers between literary traditions.
Idiosyncratic and controversial as Bukharin’s address to the Congress was, it
highlights the central principle that informed the massive recirculation of
artistic modes, genres, and forms in the Soviet sphere during the early Stalin
period.1 This was the concept of ‘world literature,’ taken up by Maxim Gorky in
the revolutionary moment but articulated from a material, organizational
standpoint in the 1930s. The Soviet multinational writers’ bureaucracy on the
one hand, and a series of leftist international writers’ congresses on the
other, formalized and sometimes centralized the process of cross-cultural
literary exchange.
الصفوية
كانت الدولة الصفوية التركية تصنع قمصان ملوكها من أسلاك
ملفوفة مقطعة إلى حلقات، في كل منها نقش اسم "الله" وأسماء آل البيت
The Safavid Turkish state made the t-shirts of its kings from wires wrapped into rings,
each with the inscription "God" and the names of the al-Bayt
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كيف قام الغرب "بالاستعمار الروحي " حيث تم فصل اشعار الرومي عن الإسلام
The Erasure of Islam from the Poetry of Rumi
“spiritual colonialism,” extracting the spiritual from its religious context
فيديو مثير تم تصويره لأول مرة 1976 في بابوا غينيا الجديدة ورد فعلهم على بعض الأشياء
Amazing footage
of Tribe Toulambis of Papua New Guinea in their first contact with the outside
world and the white man
لاهور: "مدينة الليل المروعة" - لاهور في الخيال البريطاني
Lahore: “The City of Dreadful Night”-lahore in the
british imagination
is a
reconstruction of the historical and cultural images of Lahore.
interdisciplinary approach that combines studies in cultural anthropology,
literary and historical sources, art history, and humanistic geography. The
central point of the analysis is topophilia, the term used to describe the
strong sense of place or identity among certain peoples and groups.
كيف أثرت معاداة الشيوعية على الحركة العمالية في الولايات المتحدة
Howard Zinn discusses how anti-communism effected
the labor movement in the United States
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المتطوعين الأجانب في الجيش النازي
الهنود من الجيش الألماني في الحرب العالمية الثانية - في
السنوات الأولى من الحرب العالمية الثانية، الجيش الألماني، أيد فكرة التفوق الآري
والنقاء العرقي. ومع ذلك، مع تقدم الحرب بدأت ألمانيا تعاني من نقص عميق في الرجال
، مما اضطر الجيش لتقديم تنازلات. في نهاية المطاف اسسوا وحدات من جنسيات أجنبية مختلفة.
وكان من بينها وحدات من منطقة البنجاب في الهند
In the early years of World WarII, the German military, especially the SS upheld the idea of Aryan superiority
and racial purity. However, as the war
progressed Germany began to suffer profound man power shortages, forcing the
military to make compromises. Eventually
the German Wehrmacht and SS would be comprised of units from various foreign
nationalities. Among the most unique was
a Wehrmacht, later Waffen SS unit called the Indische Legion, comprised of
soldiers who hailed from the Punjab region of India
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أكاديمية سانت بطرسبرغ للفنون الجميلة أقدم مدرسة للفنون في روسيا لا تزال تدرس الفنون الجميلة بالطريقة القديمة
Art of Gold:
Painting, sculpture and romance inside Russia’s most famous classical art academy
Few places in the world still teach fine arts the old
way, where form is everything, but the St-Petersburg academy of fine arts is
one of them. It’s the oldest art school
in Russia and students from all over the world dream of studying within its
ancient walls, they believe it’s a place that sets the gold standard in
teaching classic art
حول العالم
من أيسلندا إلى إيطاليا الرحلة الفوتوغرافية النهائية لأرشيف
مجلة ناشيونال جيوغرافيك - الكنوز البصرية حول العالم في 125 عاما
This is the ultimate photographic
journey through Europe as told by the world’s favorite magazine. Adapted from
our monumental Around the World in 125 Years and featuring over 200 captivating
images from National Geographic magazine’s archives, these visual treasures
explore the beauty, complexity, the variety, the historic cities, and the
picturesque landcapes of magnificient Europe.
من الحرب المدنية الإسبانية إلى فيتنام
STUDY GUIDES ON WAR ART: FROM THE SPANISH CIVIL WAR TO VIETNAM
الاسلام هو الحل
الإسلام،
الشعب والسلطة خمس حلقات عن دور الإسلام في السياسة في الشرق الأوسط وشمال أفريقيا
Islam, People
and Power
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الشعوب الشرقية
أول الأفلام التي تصور حياة الشعب الكردي واليزيدي. كانت
في السابق الأفلام تصور الشرق كأرض غريبة مع راقصات وقوافل لا نهاية لها، هنا يظهر
الوجود المضطهد للشعوب الشرقية - الواقعية للسينما الشرقية السوفيتية
1926, ZARE by pioneer Armenian
filmmaker Hamo Beknazarian ZARE is
considered to be one of the first (if not the first) film to depict the life of
the Kurdish and Yazidi peoples. With this film Beknazarian cemented his place
among the leading Soviet directors of the 1920’s. He was widely hailed as a
master of his craft and an innovative filmmaker. While most films were
depicting the East as an exotic land of beautiful belly dancers and endless
caravans, Beknazarian was the first to show the oppressed and harsh existence
of Eastern peoples, thus becoming the first realist of oriental cinema