هي السنين التى تمحو ملامحنا

On the seashore of endless worlds children meet

The infinite sky is motionless overhead and the restless water is boisterous. On the seashore of endless worlds the children meet with shouts and dances

They build their houses with sand, and they play with empty shells. With withered leaves they weave their boats and smilingly float them on the vast deep. Children have their play on the seashore of worlds

They know not how to swim, they know not how to cast nets. Pearl-fishers dive for pearls, merchants sail in their ships, while children gather pebbles and scatter them again. They seek not for hidden treasures, they know not how to cast nets

The sea surges up with laughter, and pale gleams the smile of the sea-beach. Death-dealing waves sing meaningless ballads to the children, even like a mother while rocking her baby's cradle. The sea plays with children, and pale gleams the smile of the sea-beach.

On the seashore of endless worlds children meet. Tempest roams in the pathless sky, ships are wrecked in the trackless water, death is abroad and children play. On the seashore of endless worlds is the great meeting of children

PROJECT

SOURCE

site anti-tank artillery and armored pirates of the Red Army of 1939-1945

الحرب المجهولة

The Unknown War

أرشيف صيد الصقور أسيا الوسطى

SILK ROAD

Central Asia Falcons Archive - Images, illustrations and links

Fly Bird, Fly

Fly, bird, fly, to Menaság fly, sit on

the delicate shoulders of my sweet dove

take my letter, bird, take it to my

father, mother and to my fiancé

if she asks where I am, tell her I’m a prisoner

in the prison of love, in chains till my knees

you’re a prisoner, my rose, however, I’m sick

only when you’ll come to me, I will heal.

فلتذهب النوايا الحسنة إلى الجحيم ايفان إيليتش

Ivan Illich 1926 – 2002

1 , 2 , 3 , 4 , 5 , 6 ,

تحفة ملحمية

Odyssey of a People - Epic masterpiece by Ismail Shammout-

يوري لوتمان

Science and art are the two eyes of human culture. And the very difference between them makes the volume of our knowledge. Art is a form of thinking that makes a human being as it is

Conversations on Russian Culture - Yuri Lotman

link:  the Semiotics of Culture 

On the semiosphere

الأفلام التاريخية الألمانية من جميع أنحاء العالم -زقورة عقرقوف

historic film footage and documetaries about Cologne Germany

WORLD FILM BOOK-see over 100 years of Cologne history in film

Aqa Quf - IRAQ

مصور سينمائي سوفيتي روسي

The fate of the outstanding Soviet cinematographer Vladislav Mikosha reveals an amazing symmetry of places, synchronism of people and events. an analyst of the twentieth century who kept a lot of its great and dreadful events for us: of the Cathedral of Christ the Savior demolition, Mount Elbrus ascent, voyage to the Arctic by «Smolensk» steamship and rescue of Cheluskin sailors

I felt the world as a reality, I perceived it emotionally,

not analytically. In my veins, the blood of seafarers

and discoverers, and not historians and researchers, flowed .

And the chronicle, which I regularly led all my life, was more like a

"ship magazine" than a "Tale of Bygone Years"

Vladislav Mikosha

أطروحات حول مكافحة القلق او الهاجس اليومي

We Are All Very Anxious

أرشيف الزي الأولمبي السوفيتي و الروسي على مدى السنوات ال 110 الماضية - تاريخ الألعاب الأولمبية

Archive of Soviet and Russian Olympic uniforms over the past 110 years - the history of the Olympic Games

مشروع خاص مشترك من قبل ريا نوفوستي وسبوتنيك للاتحاد السوفيتي

a joint special project by RIA Novosti and Sputnik

أرشيف فيدل كاسترو - تاس-فيدل كاسترو في صور نادرة 1963

Fidel Castro - Tass Archiv

Fidel Castro in Rare Pictures 1963

خلف الستار الحديدي: أرشيف ألماني شرقي غير عادي

Iron Curtain

GERMAN-BERLIN

Behind the Iron Curtain: An extraordinary East German archive

يطلق الأوروبيون على القهوة العربية اسم "خمر الإسلام" - هيرمان بورخارت صورة للقبائل العربية في عام 1904

The Europeans call on Arabic coffee the name "the wine of Islam" -Traveler Hermann Burchardt captures a photo in 1904 of Arabian tribes

صور الحرب - رشيف

WAR PHOTO ARCHIVE

حروب البلقان

مونرو (ساكي) :ان مسألة البلقان هي خزانة الأمس لنا, إن أراضي البلقان مثيرة للاهتمام بشكل خاص بالنسبة لنا في هذه الأيام السريعة الحركة لأنها توفر لنا آخر لمحة متبقية عن فترة التلاشي في التاريخ الأوروبي وانحسار الاسلام في اوروبا - قبل قتله 1916 من قناص الماني

THE CUPBOARD OF THE YESTERDAYS

The Balkans have long been the last surviving shred of happy hunting-ground for the adventurous, a playground for passions that are fast becoming atrophied for want of exercise. In old bygone days we had the wars in the Low Countries always at our doors, as it were; there was no need to go far afield into malaria-stricken wilds if one wanted a life of boot and saddle and licence to kill and be killed. Those who wished to see life had a decent opportunity for seeing death at the same time.”

The Balkan lands are especially interesting to us in these rapidly-moving days because they afford us the last remaining glimpse of a vanishing period of European history.  When I was a child one of the earliest events of the outside world that forced itself coherently under my notice was a war in the Balkans; I remember a sunburnt, soldierly man putting little pin-flags in a war-map, red flags for the Turkish forces and yellow flags for the Russians.  It seemed a magical region, with its mountain passes and frozen rivers and grim battlefields, its drifting snows, and prowling wolves; there was a great stretch of water that bore the sinister but engaging name of the Black Sea—nothing that I ever learned before or after in a geography lesson made the same impression on me as that strange-named inland sea, and I don’t think its magic has ever faded out of my imagination.  And there was a battle called Plevna that went on and on with varying fortunes for what seemed like a great part of a lifetime; I remember the day of wrath and mourning when the little red flag had to be taken away from Plevna—like other maturer judges, I was backing the wrong horse, at any rate the losing horse.  And now to-day we are putting little pin-flags again into maps of the Balkan region, and the passions are being turned loose once more in their playground.”

“Life is held very cheap in those parts,”

أبطال لفرانكو بيراردي الذين يصنعهم النظام الرأسمالي

How does the West make heroes

Franco Berardi Heroes: Mass Murder and Suicide 

آلان باديو عن الثورة المصرية

Alain Badiou on Egyptian Revolution

تعلموا السعادة

لماذا يعيش أُناس ويموتون دون أن يجدوا السعادة الحقيقية

The Myths of Happiness

How to Be Happy - Secrets to Happiness

Self-esteem and likability: Separating fact from fantasy

What the Self-Esteem Movement Got Disastrously Wrong

The Secret to Happiness That No One Wants to Admit

Self-esteem is Not the Answer

Why Are Some People Happier Than Others

Robert Chaldini,The Psychology of Persuasion,  you can convince yourself to be happy

Morning star light the way

Restless dreams all gone

Shadows gone, break of day

Real life has begun

كتيبة قتالية من النساء الروسيات بعد الثورة البلشفية

Women's Battalions were all-female combat units formed after the February Revolution by the Russian Provisional Government in a last-ditch effort to inspire the mass of war-weary soldiers to continue fighting in World War I

لامزيد من السخافات

لا مزيد من الرسامين، لا مزيد من الكتاب الموسيقيين النحاتين الديانات الإمبرياليين الفوضويين الاشتراكيين البلاشفة السياسيين البروليتاريين الديمقراطيين، لا مزيد من الجيوش والشرطة كفى سخافات لم يبق شيء، لم يبق شيء شيء.. ولا شيء

No more painters, no more writers, no more musicians, no more sculptors, no more religions, no more republicans, no more royalists, no more imperialists, no more anarchists, no more socialists, no more Bolsheviks, no more politicians, no more proletarians, no more democrats, no more armies, no more police, no more nations, no more of these idiocies, no more, no more, NOTHING, NOTHING, NOTHING

التعليم اساس نهضة الأمم

القصيدة التربوية 1920 - 1928 وهي تقنية الروسي ماكارنكو كيف تكون مجتمعاً واعياً من الأطفال الصعاب التربية في احدي الاصلاحيات للأطفال المجرمين والمشردين غوركي

Makarenko “Pedagogical Poem”

 graduation paper, “Crisis of Modern Pedagogies,” was highly appraised for its unusual approach. For his educational achievements Makarenko was honored with a golden medal, the highest award in Soviet schools and colleges. After graduating from college Makarenko was advised to continue his scientific research in the field of pedagogy, but Anton chose to become a practicing teacher. He worked in the colleges of Krukov and Poltava until 1920 when he was invited to head the Poltava Colony for Young Offenders

Based on pedagogic literature and his own research and experience, Makarenko believed that upbringing and proper education were the most important factors influencing the formation and development of an individual. His point of view contrasted with the practical standards of the times. At the beginning of the 20th century, the majority of teachers believed each individual had a number of congenital characteristics that determined his or her personality. Makarenko did not agree that a person is “initially good” or

“initially bad.” He was sure that everyone, especially children and teenagers, needed respect and understanding. Makarenko also rejected physical punishment, a common measure of his times.

After proving the effectiveness of his system in the Poltava Colony, in 1927 Makarenko was appointed as the head of an orphanage for street children near Kharkov. Thousands of children in the Soviet Union became orphans following the Civil War and World War I. Left without parental love and care many of them became juvenile criminals. The orphanage near Kharkov was known as the place where the most incorrigible thieves and swindlers were put into rehabilitation. An innovative educator, Makarenko succeeded in gaining their respect. In his upbringing of the troubled orphans he combined insistence and respect, school education and productive labor.

The methods developed by Anton Makarenko were highly appreciated by Soviet writer Maxim Gorky who believed that Makarenko’s “pedagogical experiment is meaningful for the whole world.” Inspired by Gorky, the writer whom he admired, Makarenko wrote the “The Pedagogical Poem,” based on the true stories of his pupils from the orphanage for street children. In his book Makarenko showed how proper education could turn uncontrollable and aggressive teenagers into worthy and responsible citizens. “The Pedagogical Poem,” Makarenko’s principal publication, was a great success not only in the USSR, but also abroad. Anton Makarenko earned a reputation as a progressive, innovative and talented educator.

المهرجان الكوميدي الأوروبي الشرقي في المملكة المتحدة

East European Comedy Festival

رسالة جاك تاتي لابنته

A script for THE ILLUSIONIST was originally written by French comedy genius and cinema legend Jacques Tati as a love letter from a father to his daughter, but never produced. Sylvain Chomet, the Oscar-nominated and critically acclaimed creator of The Triplets of Belleville, adapted the script and brought it to life in his distinctive hand-drawn animated style.

الصورة الدبلوماسية

Image Diplomacy Vladislav Shapovalov

في طريق الثورة العربية

In the way of the Arab revolution

حادث صادم

A Shocking Accident Graham Greene

يهود الجزيرة

Report of German Jewish Anthropology Studies by Jewish Experts on the History of Jews in the Arabian Peninsula 1925

مشروع العلوم السياسية في الشرق الأوسط

Project on Middle East Political Science

تاريخ الخط العثماني

The Journal of Ottoman Calligraphy (JOC) is dedicated to Islamic Art and Ottoman script calligraphy. Calligraphy was a skill to be mastered, and it was heavily used to express religious sentiment and many other aspects of personal and cultural life. Therefore Islamic calligraphy is more than handwriting. It is a “spiritual technique”

Moalla calligraphy is based on the calligrapher’s own subjective and imaginative interpretation of various calligraphic styles which influence the new style indirectly as visual models.

الشهيد

SILK ROAD

Witness Kashmir 1986–2016

Definition of

العبودية الأفريقية في إيران

SILK ROAD

Photography of African Slavery in Iran

شيراز 1928

SILK ROAD

Shiraz: A Romance of India 1928

A historical romance set in the Mughal Empire. Selima (Enakshi) is a princess-foundling raised by a potter and loved by her brother, Shiraz (Rai). She is abducted and sold as a slave to Prince Khurram, later Emperor Shah Jehan (Roy), who falls for her, to the chagrin of the wily Dalia (Seeta Devi). When Selima is caught is Shiraz, the young man is condemned to be trampled to death by an elephant. A pendant reveals Selima's royal status and she saves her brother, marries the prince and becomes Empress Mumtaz Mahal while Dalia is banned for her machinations against Selima. When Selima dies (1629), the emperor builds her a monument to the design of the now old and blind Shiraz, the Taj Mahal

جورج أورويل ودوره في "الدعاية" الحكومية في الأربعينيات والترویج للأدب المناهض للشيوعیة

George Orwell played his part in government ‘propaganda’ in the 1940s.  BBC

Examples of IRD’s early work include reports on Soviet gulags and the promotion of anti-communist literature. George Orwell’s work was actively promoted by the unit. Shortly before his death in 1950, Orwell even gave it a list of left-wing writers and journalists “who should not be trusted” to spread IRD’s message. During that decade, the department even moved into British domestic politics by setting up a “home desk” to counter communism in industry